Texture Alignment / Wall Panning / Grrr!

Can anyone shed some light on this...

I created a test room, but subtracting a series of four cubes, one after the next, such that each cube was touching the previous one. In the end, I made a large room that was effectively formed (totally inefficiently) by making four smaller roomlettes. I did this to demonstrate this problem.

For the pictures below, the textures I've chosen are utterly wrong for walls, floors, and ceilings, but they are simple 128x128 textures that I can test against. Each of the four roomlettes measure 64 wide by 128 deep, therefore, on the width axis, textures will repeat.

So I've created this, highlighted the subtracted brushes, and selected raw textures (no alignment yet)...



As you can see, everything along the X (width) axis repeats at the 64 unit breaks between each brush. This is expected.

Now, if I select the floors and ceilings and do an ALIGN, I get exactly what I want - that is, the textures have figured out how to "match up". But, when I do this to the walls, it doesn't work - that is, the textures continue to repeat at the 64 unit boundary (they restart). It doesn't matter if I do a Wall Panning, or Merge Polygons / Rebuild - no matter what I try, I can't get them damn co-planar walls to align the textures correctly in the same way the floor works.

What I WANT it to look like is this:



This shows the floor with the correct texture alignment (done magically by UED2), but I have to MANUALLY pan each wall segment to get the textures to align correctly. This sucks!

This is a simple room, but when I've got a water well or a curved archway with 16, 24, or 32 segments, then manual texture alignment becomes tedious (and BORING). There's gotta be a better way! Is there?

BB.

a) Oh, er uh, DING. I think this explains a lot about merging polygons.

I suspect that I've always expected it to merge co-planar polygons on MULTIPLE brushes. I assume that if it only works on a single brush, then typically, the merge poly function is REALLY useful on COMPLEX brushes. In other words, merging polygons on a cube won't do anything cause all the polys are as merged as they can get. But if I intersected the builder brush onto a series of added brushed, the resulting stuff built from this could be merged. (At least I think that's the way it is).

b) Ok I did try both wall panning and wall alignment. But again, maybe this doesn't work because I'm trying to do this on four separate brushes. I'm hoping that if I do an intersect around something like this room example, then again, resulting merges and wall alignment may work.

But again, aligning wall textures for wells, curved walls, etc is what I *really* want the editor to do.

BB.