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I would like to apply a texture to an cylinder object in Blender cycles. Below is the result when I apply the texture to the entire mesh:

  • Mapping OK for the Upper and bottom circular faces.
  • Mapping not OK for the lateral side, the texture is applied to each single subdivision face.

My goal is to apply the texture to the entire lateral side as a single surface.

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While using the basic generated texture co-ordinates can be easy and helpful in some cases, you want to use UV-Unwrapping to get full control of how your texture looks. BlenderCookie has an introduction tutorial that explains more.

The basics are -

First mark the seams, this is where the edges are "cut" to get the model laying flat on a 2d texture image. CtrlE->Mark Seams with mark the selected edges.

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Then you unwrap - Select all with A, then U->Unwrap

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Now when you set the mapping to UV for the texture you will get the same bricks texture on the top as well as the sides.

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For more control you can also assign different materials to the top and sides.

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