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I have a Metaball animation running with animation node. I want to project the UVs from the surrounding sphere to the metaballs so I can have the textures applied without artifacts (you can se in the gif). The only problem is that I don’t really know hot to do it. If it was a normal mesh I would go for the uv projection modifier, but since is a metaball I can’t apply modifiers.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks a lot ll

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    $\begingroup$ Use the generated or object coordinates with the image texture projection mode set to Box, and the blend to a value > 0 $\endgroup$
    – Gorgious
    Commented May 15, 2020 at 12:42

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You can use equirectangular type of texture image.
Trick to apply this texture is used Environment texture node (instead of Image node) in material node tree.

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If you don't have yet this type of texture, its very easy to let blender render one from sphere.
Let me know if you need more info.

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Setting up UV Projection from Mesh

I did it this way and it worked fine for me (but i am using a cube instead of a sphere).

Under - Texture Coordinates - Object - Try to plug in your outer sphere.

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  • $\begingroup$ What I tried it still produce visible seams to me (even with blend). Unmissable even more in animation, because projected box edges moves but texture doesnt for its projection. And I dont speak about wire texture, I tried it with crazy bark texture. $\endgroup$
    – vklidu
    Commented May 29, 2020 at 22:15

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