Issue with Standard Shader's Detail Albedo mask

Hello all,

Picture down below to demonstrate what I'm having issues with.

I am trying to place a texture and move it within a material. Now I've gotten my 2D image, in which none of the pixels touch the border of the image, and I've set it to 'Clamp' in its settings.
I've placed it in the Detail Albedo field of the Standard Shader and by setting the Tiling to 2x2 it's now 1/4th the size of the full texture. This all is intended behaviour.

However, as you can see, the pixels at the edge of the Detail Albedo field stretch all the way to the edges of anything I apply this material to.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

- Ramses

 

In the texture import settings for that texture, set the "wrap mode" to "repeat". It looks like it's set to "clamp" right now.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TextureImporter.html

 

Unfortunately that's the opposite of what I want to accomplish. I simply want to place this texture within the material somewhere using the Offset.

 

In that case, I think you need to provide a "detail mask" texture to mask out what part of the main texture that the detail texture should cover.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterDetail.html
I couldn't see in the documentation about what format that texture needs to be in, so I don't know if it needs to be grey-scale or alpha.

It looks like what you are trying to do is not really what a detail map was intended for, so it may not be the best solution.

 

You do not need to store the mask in alpha channel of the Image. Just choose "From Grayscale" as Alpha Source in your detail mask texture. I keep all my maps in TIFF and just enable this option for the detail mask and it works.