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I am looking to apply a texture to a flat shape and then project that texture onto my 3D surface. I am able to use Smart UV Project to allow Blender to generate an unwrapped flat UV geometry, but I am wondering it it possible for me to supply my own flat UV map and then project this back onto the 3D mesh.

The mesh between the flattenized shape (UV map) and 3D shape are 1-1 correspondence with respect to nodes, and I have my own mathematical representation of the transformation from the flat UV shape to the 3D x-y-z space.

Edit: (for some context...)

Say I have a flat UV map like this: UV map

That I want to project onto a 3D structure like this: 3D mesh

I am wondering if there is a way I can specify my UV map and then cast a texture onto this to put on the 3D shape rather than using something like Smart UV Project to generate the UV map.

For the end result I am looking for something similar to MATLAB's warp() function: MATLAB warp() function Thanks in advance!

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    $\begingroup$ hello, maybe show some screenshots? It could help to understand $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 15:55
  • $\begingroup$ Is this UV map dynamic or static? $\endgroup$
    – lemon
    Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 16:34
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, you should be able to express your projection in shader-tree nodes, if your representation is a reasonable set of functions. $\endgroup$
    – Robin Betts ♦
    Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 20:09
  • $\begingroup$ @moonboots I added some pictures to help clarify $\endgroup$
    – djemerson
    Commented Dec 9, 2020 at 4:30
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    $\begingroup$ The initial UV shape is defined by a math function? Is it already loaded as UV in Blender? $\endgroup$
    – lemon
    Commented Dec 9, 2020 at 7:14

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I don't think I understood your question. What is the reason use such deformed UV? What is your base mesh? And what is your final shape? Until someone (who understood better) ... here is a tip.

I guess your mesh is always square, just stretched is some direction. So what about ...

  • Select all faces Unwrap > Reset.
  • With all selected and one face selected as Active (bright one) Unwrap > Follow Active Quad

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Like that you can get even distribution again for your texture.

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Also it is still square when view from top, so you can go to Top View (7) and Unwrap > From View

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