Floor and Tiles · Documentation

Properties

The pattern's own dimensions. The rollout rebuilds itself for the pattern chosen: only the rows that pattern uses are shown. Pick a pattern to see what it asks for.

BasicHerringboneChevronBlockBasket WeaveVersaillesBordeauxHexagonalDiamondFish ScaleMonticelloCamelotParquet PanelsArabesque

Basic

Rows of rectangles, and the only pattern that draws its boards at random out of the box. Every size has a Min, a Max and a Spread, and a padlock that fixes it to Max.

Length › Min / Max / Spread, padlock	Board length. Locked, every board is Max. Unlocked, boards are drawn between Min and Max; Spread shapes the draw: 0 is flat (every length as likely), higher favours the middle, so most boards are near the average and a few are short or long.
Width › Min / Max / Spread, padlock	The same for board width, which gives rows of different widths, as in a random-width plank floor.
Row Offset › Min / Max / Spread, padlock	The stagger between rows, in percent of the length. Locked at 50 is a running bond, 33 a third bond, 0 a stack bond. Unlocked, every row starts wherever the draw puts it, which is how a plank floor laid straight off the pallet looks.

A locked size is a tile; unlock the length and you have boards. Seed in General changes the draw without changing the settings.

Herringbone

Planks at 90° to each other in a zigzag. The arm of the zigzag can be one plank wide or several.

Rows	Planks per arm of the zigzag. 1 is single herringbone, 2 is double herringbone, 3 triple; the wider the arm, the bolder the pattern.
Length, Width	The plank. A classic is 3:1 to 5:1. The pattern only closes cleanly when Length is a whole multiple of Width, and the plugin does not force that: a 500 × 120 plank leaves a small step at every crossing, as it would on a real floor.

Chevron

Planks cut at an angle so they meet on a straight seam, unlike herringbone where the ends overlap.

Lean	How far the planks lean from the seam they meet on. 45° is the classic square V; less is a shallower, longer zigzag; more is a steeper one.
Length, Width	The plank, measured before its ends are cut to the lean, which is the number a supplier would quote.
Offset, Every	Row stagger, as in the shared rows.

Block

Squares made of planks, each square turned a quarter from its neighbours, like a basket weave of blocks. Optionally with small diamonds set into the corners.

Size	The block, always square.
Split	How many planks each block is cut into. 1 is a plain checkerboard of squares; 3 or 4 is the familiar parquet block.
With diamonds	Sets a small diamond into the corners between blocks, the blocks notched to take it.
Diamonds	Every how many blocks a diamond is set: 1 at every corner, 2 at every other.
Diamond	The diamond's size across its points.

Basket Weave

Pairs or triples of boards alternating direction. In the classic weave a small square shows between the arms; in the other the boards close up into bands.

Rows	Boards in the arm lying along the floor.
Columns, padlock	Boards in the arm standing across it. Locked, it follows Rows, which is the usual weave. Unlocked, it is a thick band against a thin one.
No dots	The other weave: boards close up into continuous bands instead of leaving the small square "dots". A different floor rather than a sparser version of the same one.
Length › Board / Cross, padlock	The lying board's length and the standing board's length. Locked, one plank throughout. Cross is greyed under No dots, where the standing boards have to fill the band.
Width › Board / Cross, padlock	The same for width.

Versailles

The French palace module: a square panel of boards woven round a central square, panels set on the diagonal. Everything inside the panel is worked out from the panel's size.

Variation	1 butts the panels straight together. 2 runs a board between them. 3 is the next panel size down. 4 a further variant of the weave.
Panel	The panel's size. The board length and the square are all worked out from this.
Board	Width of the narrow boards that make the weave.
Frame	Width of the long boards boxing the panel.
Border	Width of the boards run between panels by variation 2.
padlock	Ties Board, Frame and Border together as one width, which is usually what you want: one stock of board for the whole floor.
Offset, Every	Row stagger; variations 1 and 3 only. Variation 2's boards make a grid that a stagger would break.

Bordeaux

A square-and-rectangle module with a smaller square at the crossings.

Size	The element; the small square and the rectangles are proportioned from it.
Offset, Every	Row stagger, as in the shared rows.

Hexagonal

Hexagons: regular by default, stretched when you want them.

Size	The hexagon across its flats, which is the number on the box.
Height	Across its points. Follows Size as a regular hexagon until unlocked.
Unlock	Lets Height be typed, so the hexagon stretches while keeping its six corners, like the elongated hex of some cement tiles.

Diamond

Rhombi of 60° by 120°, laid flat in rows or turned three ways into the tumbling-blocks floor.

Variation	1 lays the rhombus flat in rows. 2 turns it three ways into cubes seen corner-on, the classic tumbling blocks, which wants three material IDs to read as cubes (see Material IDs).
Size	The rhombus. At 60° by 120° its side, its short diagonal and its width are all this one number.

Fish Scale

Overlapping scales, point down, or point up when the rows are flipped in General.

Width, Height, padlock	The scale across and top to bottom. Locked: square.
Radius, padlock	Radius of the arcs the scale is drawn with. Locked: the largest arc that fits, which is also the one that leaves no gaps between scales.
Variation	1 lays the scales in rows. 2 is a pinwheel of four scales round every point, which only closes on a square scale with the largest arc, so Height and Radius are held there.
Sides	Segments per full turn of arc. Rounder is finer and more faces; coarser is fewer. It also sets how finely the face is meshed when Generate topology is on.

Monticello

A square with pickets running past it, from Jefferson's house at Monticello.

Variation	1 runs one pointed picket through the crossings. 2 lays the same band as two mitred boards, so every square gets a frame of four boards.
Square	The square.
Picket	Width of the board between the squares.
Split	How many boards each square is cut into. 1 leaves it whole.
Alternate	Whether that cut turns a quarter from one square to the next.
Offset, Every	Row stagger, as in the shared rows.

Camelot

Squares with an octagonal reading and small squares at the corners. Every proportion inside the module is fixed.

Size	The module. This is all there is to type.

Parquet Panels

Square panels of planks inside a frame, each panel turned from the last. Four kinds of middle.

Variation	Which middle the panel has: 1 bands across the diagonal, 2 four combed triangles, 3 a cross with four banded squares, 4 four blocks of planks each turned from the last. Panel and frame are the same in all four.
Size	The panel.
Frame	Width of the frame round it.
Split	How finely the middle is divided. What it counts depends on the variation (bands, or planks per block), and that is the point of it being one number: change the variation and the density stays about the same.

Arabesque

The Moorish lantern shape, tiled point to point.

Width, Height, padlock	The tile across and top to bottom. Locked: as tall as it is wide.
Radius, padlock	Radius of its six arcs. It is only a proportion; the tile covers the same ground whatever it is. Locked it takes the roundest shape, where both straight runs have closed to nothing; smaller radii give straighter sides and sharper points.
Sides	Segments per full turn of arc, as for Fish Scale.

Rows several patterns share