# Custom material behavior

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [May 17, 2026, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814 "2026-05-17T07:45:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![R.S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@R.S](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/R.S)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814/1 "2026-05-17T07:45:13Z")

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![IMG_3176](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/d/4/d4df2ec904a44c867206973a478eafc4215db368.jpeg)

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When using custom materials I have this ugly looking cross in the centre. Is there any way to avoid this?

As an explanation: the material used is a photo of a floor tile projected on a flat surface (which in turn mimics a floor tile in the 3D representation of my living room)

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**Author:** ![shaprvision](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@shaprvision](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/shaprvision)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814/2 "2026-05-17T09:31:24Z")

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You need to create a seamless image outside of Shapr3d and then add it. See the following post requesting that add an option to do this automatically for custom materials.

[Seamless Image](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/26-60-custom-materials-from-images/40659/3)

PS this isn’t a perfect fix since even seamless materials will have a visible repeating pattern when tiled.

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**Author:** ![R.S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@R.S](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/R.S)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814/3 "2026-05-17T15:51:15Z")

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Thanks for taking the time to answer 🙂

Yeah, I kinda figured that too. And to make it 100% clear I’ve come up with a test-texture. That explains it pretty well. I wished there would be an option for ‘projecting’ the texture plain onto flat surfaces.

 ![Texture-Test](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/8/1/818b96ec557407a65f57cc52d3d608e1a8cc8ce8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![R.S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@R.S](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/R.S)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/custom-material-behavior/40814/4 "2026-05-17T16:40:18Z")

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In case anyone is interested: I came up with a little cli-tool in C# (~110 lines) that re-organizes the quadrants of an image so that it imports ‘correctly’ 🙂

As one can see, the tile (left bottom) looks absolutely fine now 🙂

 ![Texture-Test_2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/7/f/7fb98077305352acb14d71c1b1c4d8625b2aef30.jpeg)