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I am a total beginner to Blender.

I want the checkered brick texture to be on all sides of the cube. How can I do this?

I have tried adding a texture coordinate with UV output connected to the brick texture's input vector.

Here is the rendered output and node setup:

cube

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    $\begingroup$ Have you tried unwrapping the cube as a cube projection? $\endgroup$
    – Nate_Sycro27
    Commented Dec 30, 2019 at 12:36

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This has a rather simple solution.
You almost got it right on your first try.

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You have to connect your UV coordinates.
Add a Texture coordinate node - use the UV output.
Add a Mapping node - use it to rotate the checker texture.

Connect them like this, and you're good to go.

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  • $\begingroup$ That's a beautiful cube scene. Can you share the blend file? $\endgroup$
    – rqgtytlpb
    Commented Jan 4, 2020 at 1:57
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The Checker texture is 3D. It divides the given texture space into blocks. The Brick texture is 2D. It's calculated in U and V, but just projected through W.

So you can map the checker in a 3D space, (here, Object space) but the bricks need some kind of mapping onto 2D surfaces to look like bricks. The default UV map of a cube will do, here.

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If you'd like some kind of procedural mapping that rotates the brick texture to line up with surfaces without an explicit UV map, you can use an approach something like this one

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for posting your answer. I had no idea these textures work differently. Well, always learning :). $\endgroup$
    – jachym michal
    Commented Dec 30, 2019 at 9:44
  • $\begingroup$ You can always do what you've done, and take a 2D slice at W=0 out of the checker texture.. I just thought it was an opportunity to show the difference. $\endgroup$
    – Robin Betts ♦
    Commented Dec 30, 2019 at 9:56

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