Is real UV tiling possible in Blender?

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Seems that every other 3d application can do it, except of Blender: does anybody know if it’s possible to tile the UV of an object?
I don’t mean the “game engine” tiling repeating inside the single 256x256 UV/Image Editor window, I’m referring to UV isles placed on “other adjacent windows”, that is “tiles” (tile U0_V0, tile U1_V0, tile U2_V0, and so on).
This seems to be the normal workflow for texturing in the industry, lately…
Thanks in advance.

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It may be possible, but I doubt it’s documented if it is possible. So unless someone has figured it out through trial and error…

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Yes its possible to do this via nodes, but there is no native way of doing it.

UV coordinates are reported to cycles as absolute positions.

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Hi doublebishop: would you show me how to do it in Cycles? A screenshot or a simple blend file would be really appreciated… thanks in advance. :smiley:

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Dont have time to set up one, but use the texture coordinates output with the seperate RGB nodes in conjunction with the math nodes…

also have a look into the vector mapping node, that may be able to do it aswell.

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SOLVED.
Thanks anyway doublebishop, I solved it in the simpler manner, no need for complex setups. :slight_smile:
In case anyone else need to know this:

  • I just assigned the faces sharing the UV coordinates in tile U0_V0 to “material01”, the UV coordinates in tile U1_V0 to “material02” and so on, so each material has its own image texture to be painted on;
  • then, it’s enough to paint directly on the model in the 3d view and save each image for each tile.
    The trick is to use Cycles nodes; it doesn’t seems to work under BI.

EDIT: actually, for whose interested, it obviously works under BI too.