Marble
Seamless slab
Make one tile of your slab that repeats without a visible join, choose how much of the slab it keeps, or use the slab once.
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Marble veins run across the whole slab, so a repeating tile cannot simply be cut from it. Matelume overlaps the slab's own edges and cuts where they agree. Where the cut breaks a vein, the vein is joined to its partner or faded out. The finished map is always one tile, or the slab used once.
Best join or No seamless
Two cards at the top:
- Best join: the slab's own edges overlap and are cut where they agree; a vein the cut breaks is joined or faded. Use it when the stone must repeat across a large object.
- No seamless: the slab once, as photographed. Use it for slabs where every cut shows, like banded stone, or when one slab at its real size already covers your object.
The Studio has no bookmatch tool: it makes one repeating tile, or keeps the slab once.
How much it cuts
With Best join, the Slab kept slider sets how much of your slab the tile keeps, from 50 % to 95 %. Each marble needs a different value.
- Higher keeps more of your slab: more of its veins and character survive.
- Lower lets the join cut more, which gives it more room to hide where it shows.
Start at 90 % and adjust it until the join disappears. A busy breccia may need about 60 %. Each change makes a new tile, and the progress card says how much of the slab it keeps. The tile's real size follows the part of the slab that is kept, and it stays a rectangle close to your image's shape.
Checking the join
The picture shows your tile repeated 2 × 2. This is only a check that it repeats: the finished map is one tile, as the note under the picture says. The 3D view shows the tile repeating across the object at its real size. Look where four tiles meet: that is where a join would show first.
No seamless
With No seamless, the picture shows the slab once, with no repeat and no join. Your export then carries the whole slab at its real size. The Export step, the .json and the how-to sheet for each program tell you to set the texture to mirror (or clip), not repeat.
Note: The first tile, at 90 %, is made in the background as soon as Quality is done, so it is usually ready when you arrive.