Seamlessly UV Unwrap Unique Shapes

Question Materials and Textures
Hello Blender Community! I am fairly new to Blender, however I understand 3D concepts quite well, minus a few specific situations. This is one of those situations I am stumped by. Basically I am creating a modular hill, that uses one corner piece rotated around its origin point to create the hill. In 2D space, the corner piece more resembles a triangular shape with 3 sides rather than the ideal 4 sided plane used in UV Mapping. This causes a limitation, as textures are seamless horizontally and vertically, but never diagonally. When the shape is unwrapped to a UV Mapping, due to the triangular shape, it attempts to map it diagonally rather than vertically or horizontally. I am aware that this is difficult to understand from my explanation, as it was difficult to really explain, so I have attached a photo with a visual representation. Thank you in advance.
lessCornerPieces.jpg
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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Chris FFullDeckOfFools ,

    If I understand it correctly, what you want is not possible.

    You could try using custom 'radial UVs', like this for instance:

    RadialUV_01.png

    That 'compresses' the Texture near the center, so will probably not work for you, but like I said, you seem to want the impossible.

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Of course the easier way is, to go to Top View and U > Project from View.

    That way you have not distortion of the Texture (just the repetition, but you have that anyway).

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  • Chris C(FullDeckOfFools) replied

    Found the solution here: https://blenderartists.org/t/uv-unwrapping-unique-shapes-seamlessly/1517531

  • Chris C(FullDeckOfFools) replied

    It actually wasn't an issue with my UV but instead the texture itself. I edited it to be seamless from left to top of texture as well as left to right and vise versa in a photo editing program. 

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Just in case someday you need a randomizing behavior, there's Scattershot:

    https://cgcookie.com/downloads/scattershot-procedural-image-scattering-addon

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