Creating Multiple Textures from One Shader and Single Image File! (Texture Atlas)

In this Blender tips and tricks video, we take a look at how we can store a grid of textures that we can apply to duplicated objects. These textures can be pulled from the grid randomly or assigned manually. But in the end, only require a duplicated object and one texture!

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[Mortom]

One texture to rule them all, One Random Number to find them, one Material to bring them all in blender bind them ;)

[lostcrusader]

You're too underrated... I hope to see you get more subscriptions. These videos are good

[mythmakertheanimator]

I've been obsessing over Blender's texture atlas possibilities last 2 weeks, saw many formulas, and this is the most elegant, most efficient and instantly usable one! Dude YOU ROCK!

[dumpsky]

veeery cool ! TIP: no need to scale the UV "by hand", simply type 0.25 in the three "Scale" fields of the "Mapping" node!
additional tip for newbies: a blender cube usually has a "Cross" shaped UV layout by default which won't work here.
so to get the proper UV, select your cube, go into "Edit Mode", select all faces, then under "UV" select "Cube Projection".
every single cube face now fills all of 0-1 UV space. ;-)

[sam_pyrtuh]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It has been incredibly helpful to me while working on commercial projects.

[lucyfaire]

WOW. Finally an easy way(and creative) to place random textures in the same material. Thanks so much for this!

[DigitalNeutrinos]

Wow this helped me out, you are the man!

[sabrinarc]

This is awesome i was losing my mind on what to do to make the uv move snapping like this.
now i can finally do an eye sprite sheet animation on blender.
thank you very much

[AhmedNassef]

Man!
That's just neat.. 😃
I like it..

[enricovalenzaenv]

Ah! Brilliant use of nodes, very good. Thanks.

[Shakespeare]

After quite a few frustrations, I got this. I even scaled down the "cross" UV from a cube, so that it fits entirely into one square of the texture image. I then applied the same material to the cube, as to the planes. In this way I have cubes of random colors. Each cube is the same color on all six sides, but the color of the cube is picked from a random square of the texture. It could be any object. Ooo, you could use a torus, distribute them along a curve, and INSTANT low poly flower garland, with each being unique colors. Thanks!

[DanielPartzsch]

That's really clever how you used the white noise as random seed. It always bugged me that you don't have a seed with the random output by default. Great!

[activemotionpictures]

Awesome!! I will need this for crowd creations.

[MrBlendercross]

Great way of randomize textures - THX !

[mornariondart]

Cool! I saw a similar process using a color ramp with 4 stops for the values (0, 0.25, etc). But this is more intuitive, and the white noise for an extra layer of randomness is gold 🐱. Thanks so much

[andreasqueitsch]

Very interesting and useful approach, thanks again.

[EsesinforLearning]

Thank you for the clear explanations. I sometimes use this but never understand how it works especially the values in between 0 & 1.

[janthummler]

This is very cool tech, thanks for sharing!

[DecimateCG]

2:43 Now Imagine you want to tile that "yellow 1 block" multiple times inside that single face without bringing the entire texture inside that face, how would you do that?

[risingforce]

it is useful for squarish uv? I mean tilesheets or texture atlas? where in general lines you get a certain constraint to manage a uv-island inside a slot (1, 2, 3, 4) if you pass tru the slot. the image draw other number (other material) in 1 you can put bricks, in 2 put copper, 3 metal, 4 wood,