Questions tagged [texture-coordinates]
When images or other textures are mapped to materials, that mapping is performed using texture coordinates from either UV Map or a Texture Space. Use this tag for questions related to texture coordinates and the texture coordinate mode. Use the UV tag for questions related to UV maps.
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3D procedural material workflow
I’m a product designer getting into blender to do product renders and animations and being having issues with procedural materials workflow.
I recently bought Lance Phans’s wood shader and have been ...
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Mapping gradient texture coordinates in Geometry Nodes [closed]
I'm using Blender to create stylized landscape panoramas. I have a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) that I'm using as a height map in an image texture shader node to displace a plane (using Cycles ...
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How to apply customisable texture colours in shader? (unity asset)
I've extracted some assets from a unity game and so far managed to tweak most materials to my satisfaction.
However i can't figure out the customisable team colours of these 3d assets.
The default ...
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UV Unwrap with correct rotation
I'm wondering if there is a way to make unwrapping process faster and more pleasant.
So I have wood texture and simple model of the window, which has mostly vertical faces. I want the lines of the ...
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How do I make image texture with random pattern and not symmetrical?
On the X axis my world of warcraft style bark texture has a symmetrical effect. That and the base of the tree doesn't seem to be following the curvature of the roots and I don't know how to make the ...
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Scale Independent Object Mapping for procedural textures
can someone please advise me how to get even mapping if I want to create procedural textures using noise and musgrave. I don't want to use UV or Generated mapping. I don't even want to manually adjust ...
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How to randomly rotate the texture of instances when the node "Geometry" is used?
Here is the setup of the geometry nodes, where the random value is set up to randomly rotate instances along Y and Z axes. However, the screenshot shows that the texture of instances does not randomly ...
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Adding UV image to an object
I've created a punching bag and the goal is to place a bullseye on it with the current texture. When I create the seams and unwrap, multiple bullseye appear and I only need 1.
Do I have to bake the ...
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Shape Burst Gradient / 2D SDF in Shader Editor
I've been looking to create a 2D SDF effect in Blender's Shader Editor, but trying to research this only shows 3D SDF content which makes it difficult to find answers. Photoshop can create the desired ...
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How to create different variations of my plank?
I've created a plank and the goal is to create a wooden floor. Is there a way to make the pattern on my plank different when I duplicate it? Is there a way to do this without sculpting a whole ...
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How to make Object Texture Coordinate not to change along animation
I'm now working on textures with Object Texture Coordinate on a model with animation. I've discovered that Blender may use real-time coordinates for texture mapping, which makes the texture slide ...
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Skewed and Distorted Texture Application
I'm struggling here crew!
Why can't I get this fairly simple idea to work...
I need to create a mesh to fit over a model of a sealed cosmetics tube, and effectively emulate a printable area on a real ...
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How does Normal Texture Coordinate work?
Here’s a customized shape which has surface’s texture to be the z coordinate of all pixels, from Normal Texture Coordinate:
Here’s what I tested:
The z coordinate of the pixels which are…:
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How to get proper UV mapping with an Ocean modifier?
I want to apply a gradient like texture on an ocean plane. Without the modifier, it works perfectly as shown below.
As soon as the Ocean modifier is applied with repetition on the X and Y axis, the UV ...
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Change ocean modifier wave direction setting to global coordinates
The Ocean modifier has a "direction" parameter among the settings.
Is there a way to make that a Global setting? It is currently "local x" according to the manual.
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How to place a wave material along the normals of beveled Bézier curve
I'm new to creating materials in Blender and I'm trying to design a material that resembles the texture of a ringed worm (like an earthworm). I'm applying this material to a mesh created from a Bézier ...
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UV unwrapping for textile pattern
Hello amazing blender community! I have a kind of reverse-engineering issue. I am working in blender to prototype a physical artwork which looks like a landscape covered with textile. The landscape ...
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How to mask texture with normal?
On the following screenshot, the black region on the torus is controlled by the normal on the Principled BSDF. Now in Cycles rendering, I want the blue dots to only appear within the black region on ...
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Unwrap each face individually into UV 0-1 using Geometry Nodes
Is it possible to unwrap each individual face of a mesh into the 0 - 1 range using Geometry nodes?
It would be aiming to achieve the same result as the "Reset" UV in the UV unwrapping window....
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How to create textures with offsets from mesh edge?
I have the outline of a building that, when intersected by a Boolean, I want to show the interior texture with several layers of materials. This would show a layer of plaster, a layer of brick, and a ...
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Texture Coordiante - Object not working with linked file/asset
i'm having an issue when linking an object from one file to another. The shader it's using has a Texture Coordinate - Object in use. In the source file the Coordinate moves with its Parent, however ...
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seamless circular coordinates
I want a coordinate system that is kind of radial/circular and it should have no visible border, mirroring or repetition of any kind. I did my best to search, but only found a few things about polar ...
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How to use the contact area between the instance and the mother object as texture coordinate in shader?
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The yellow color should only appear within the area where the water droplets contact the purple wall. Consequently, the wall area outside of the water droplets should be purple; and the wall area ...
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Geometry Nodes, creating UVs from Volume to mesh results in grey UV map
I am trying to create a procedural UV map from the result of a morph between two objects. The resulting mesh is being calculated and then put into a volume cube --> Volume to mesh node. I would ...
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Parallax Mapping holes in texture
Hello i made a simple parallax set up that works but for some reason there is this problem.
As you can see the more steep the angle of view the more texture turns black and I don't know what's the ...
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How to apply texture on old particle system converted to hair curves with Geometry Nodes
I'm new to Geometry Nodes
I created a tiger fur with the old Particle System, then converted it in curves, exported the groom mesh in Alembic file and Unreal Engine imported it well, but the root UV ...
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How to tile this texture with Geo nodes
I'm trying to create a texture that can be wrapped around a simple cylinder but I need the parametric qualities afforded by geo nodes to be able to adjust the pattern for 3D printing/ prototyping ...
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How to make a procedural texture from multiple images?
I have several images of ceramic tiles, square shape. I need to fill the surface with them so that they lay down randomly, and not I manually arranged them individually.
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Why is the UV being distorted when transferring to a copy of the model?
I'm making a model for a Unity game. I have the model finished, as well as the Texture & Lightmap UVs on separate copies of the model from another program (Headus UVLayout). I just need to apply ...
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How would you make a procedural displacement texture resulting in random planar faces?
Is it possible to make a displacement texture where each cell of a voronoi texture results in a 100% flat planar surface?
The picture below is similar to the effect I'm looking for, however, in this ...
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Is there a way to have an adaptive uv on a curve?
I am working on a rope sculpture where I will hand draw several curves. I have found an answer (Texture coordinate on geometry nodes rope from Default Cube's tutorial (texture coordinates over ...
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How to properly set a UV map on generated faces in Geometry Nodes?
I have a group of faces generated in Geometry Nodes. They will be procedurally arranged in different shapes and the grid size will vary, depending on the image I use and the number of faces I need (it'...
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Texture not moving when rigged object moves, and assigning to generated causes more problems
Basically, I have a procedural texture assigned to an object that I have that when one of the bones moves, the texture appears to slide across the mesh.
I have seen how to fix this, being to assign ...
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Texture coordinates on 3 profile curves within 1 geometry nodes setup (Default cube rope tutorial) [duplicate]
I must preface this by saying that I have a very limited knowledge of Geo nodes, so this may come off as quite stupid.
I followed Default cubes GN rope tutorial( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Only vertical part of a grid texture is showing?
I'm trying to texture something with a metal bar texture, but only the vertical stripes appear on the plane I'm applying the material to. Images are below:
The image I'm trying to apply
The result:
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Specific texture wrap modes per-axis
Some Nintendo games have certain texture wrap modes (or extentions in blender) per axis. Currently, Blender's 4 wrap options (Repeat, Clamp, Clip and Mirror) apply to both U and V axis. For example, ...
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The texture doesn't show up in bge
I wanted to make a game in BGE but hit this snag even before I started.
The model is unwraped but the texture just wouldn't show up in render or when I hit P in game engine. Researched a bit and all ...
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Voronoi texture inconsistent over curve?
Basically what i have here are three curves with an object bevel that i wanted to have this embroidery—stitching look to them with the stitching going perpendicular to the curve. I found a yt tutorial ...
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How to map a UV sphere with no distortion
I'm trying to make a procedural planet shader, and a major problem I'm having is distortion on spheres. If I use the UV texture coordinates, they always get compressed at the poles and stretched on ...
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How to copy UV coordinates between similarly-shaped surfaces?
At first I'd like to say that I'm quite new to 3D modelling so I'm sorry if the question might be silly..
I have two simillarly shaped (but not identical) mesh objects: mesh A and mesh B. They have ...
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I want to texture a model from Total War: Warhammer 3
I'm trying to texture a Soul Grinder from Total War: Warhammer 3 but the bottom half of it is giving a weird shading issue. I'm not at all good with fixing up textures in Blender so I've been relying ...
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Is there a way to distort UV coordinates along the path of a gradient?
Here is an image representing default UV coordinates of a square image plane.
In the UV editor's XY space this is visually represented with colors:
X axis = red
Y axis = green
What I would like to ...
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Customize UV Map of a Noise Texture Node
I'm a newcomer to blender (as you can plainly see from the subject matter in the screenshots)
I'm having an issue with my Noise Texture node which doesn't seem to happen in video tutorials I've ...
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My depth map (displace/texture) and image (on plane) aren't lining up?
Super easy solution im sure but i just can't seem to figure it out.
Im attempting a Parallax effect and am using a depth map as texture for a displacement modifier however the displacement is rotated ...
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Extract a model and ONLY the parts of a texture atlas that it's UVs reference
I have a common problem. I bought a package that has:
An FBX with 20 models inside
An atlas with 30 textures
What I need is:
Extract one model
Extract ONLY the parts of the texture(s) that the ...
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How can I create custom texture coordinates for a volume?
My ultimate goal: I’d like to create procedural cirrus clouds (long, thin, feathery high altitude clouds), ideally shaped fairly directly, e.g. with a curve. There are some very good procedural cloud ...
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Different appearance between material preview, viewport shading, and rendered image
For some reason, when switching between different viewing modes, as well as rendering through a camera, my image texture is appearing differently for each mode. I have it set up to assign one of two ...
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How can I rotate vectors to align with a sphere surface?
TLDR: How can I align voronoi scattered textures to the surface of a sphere without using UVs?
I am trying to scatter textures on the surface of a sphere using a voronoi texture, and I can't use UV ...
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The UV editor shows that there's no stretching but my UV grid is still stretched
I'm pretty new to UV, so I think that I'm missing something simple. I've been stuck trying to texture this wall for almost a week now and for some reason even though the UV editor says that there's no ...
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Controlling color ramp/wave texture to flow along the body and limbs of an animal
Does anyone have any suggestions for recreating this rainbow stripe effect with shader nodes? (image below)
I've been trying to control a wave texture and color ramp with the object coordinates of a ...
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