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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Texture of an object unexpectedly stretched
I assigned a texture to one face of an object. During the rendering it is stretched in one direction. What caused this error and how do I fix it?
Below is an image of a render on left and a material ...
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Get pixel coord in rendered image of pixel coord in texture
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As shown in the figure above, I have the coordinate pair (x, y) which describes a certain point in an image texture and I want the corresponding ...
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texture mapping without texture being mirrored on other side of object
I have a cylinder I want to map a texture to.
To specify the location of the texture I use an empty.
In the material node editor I then use the object function of the texture coordinate node and ...
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Unwrapping UV island to fit a 2D shape
As in the GIF, I try to fit that UV island in the shape which I marked with blue color. I pin the vertices that I drag to make other vertices drag accordingly. However it acts very weirdly as in the ...
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Texture not showing correctly on specific faces
The front of the box the texture dont work on all sides, but the lid has the right texture.
Blenderfile and texture here
Best regards
Melvin
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Create Terrain Heightmaps - missing texture mapping (blend) settings in 2.8
In 2.79 i create terrain heightmaps via the Texture Tab (blend option). There i can change the mapping to get the Z heightmap of the mesh. That option is somehow not available in 2.8. (official ...
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UV Mapping a Texture onto a Plane with a Tif
I have an image.png file that I need to use as a texture for a plane. However, I also have a tif file that stores the coordinates for the UV mapping. Inside the stif the data is stored in a 960x1280x2 ...
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Blender 2.8 Boolean changes texture scale
I want to add a cavity for a window using a boolean modifier.
I used a cube as the boolean object, but the scale of the texture is different on the faces created by the boolean cube.
Is there a way ...
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Artifacts on cube after modulo on coordinates
This happens with the following node configuration:
It is caused by the modulo (or Fract) operation. I stumbled upon this problem while trying to repeat coordinates on a cube. It works fine on a ...
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Scaling down texture
When building this building, when I add the brick texture, it's way too big (as should be expeted). And I know I should probably already know this but, how do you get it to scale down? I've triesd ...
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Can you pack UV's according to material ID?
I have A LOT of uv islands for a character and despite my best efforts, I can't optimize space well manually. is there a way to automatically pack uv's SUCH THAT islands with the same material are ...
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How to UV Map using an Image as the texture source
I am busy with a project and have been struggling for a while with this and was hoping that someone knows the solution to my problem which is with the mapping/ uv mapping.
Attached is 3 images each ...
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Wrap texture evenly around mesh
I am trying to wrap this brick texture evenly around this controller 3d model, I can get it evenly around some parts but the handles are causing me problems.
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Precise Texture Placing
Is there a way to precisely place a repeating texture on a large mesh?
I have a mesh with 8 by 16 by 1 dimensions, loop cut both horizontally and vertically, so its surface is divided equally to 1-...
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Node setup for a decal in blender 2.8
How can I add a second material as a decal?
I am needing to export to collada with 2 materials. The first material is a base texture build up with the principle shader. The second texture is a decal....
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World Space Texture Setup
I am quite new to shaders in blender and don't know how most things work, but knowing texturing is the needed basics that I must know.
How do I create a world space texture that doesn't depend on any ...
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How can I determine the coordinations of the deepest point of a pit located on a 3D object?
I am trying to find the deepest point of a rough pit located on a rough 3d object. The pit is full of irregular vertices.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1muCjhRDHhwo3AnY194BAvkaCpPIdyWhx
I cannot ...
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Creating a UV map through the Node Editor
Is there a way to create a UV map in Blender inside the node editor?
I want to create a universal UV map in a custom shader node I am building for all of the objects that use it.
I'll be using ...
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Fake flashlight volume with smoke: how to make noise texture coordinates not to follow camera
I'am trying to fake effect of volume light beaming through smokey fog using emission shader on torus with noise texture plugged into volume output. I get the effect, but when I move camera around ...
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Blender API. Access face coordinates on image texture and UV map
What I have:
Model with texture atlases inside material slots
What I need to do:
Iterate over faces of my mesh (done)
Find what texture atlas (material slot index) face using (done)
Get pixel ...
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Continuous and coherent texture mapping on deforming objects
I am new to Blender, and I am stuck with a problem in texture mapping.
I have got a series of model files (*.obj) that represents a non-rigid, deforming object. Each of the model file, represents an ...
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noise texture Projecting outward from center point
While usinging shader nodes, I am trying to make a noise texture on a plane, start from the middle and project radially so when I shrink the necessary xyz, I can turn the noise into lines.
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How to get precision when rotating / positioning textures?
I am modeling a coin where heads and tails are the same image, and imported an image for the heads/tails faces.
I created a new Emission material for the faces, then gave it an Image texture and ...
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How do I get flat texture projection on a object without distortion?
I tried using Window Texture coordinate, but it changes scale if I zoom in or out. The Camera Texture coordinate works in with orthographic camera but gets distorted if I use perspective camera.
I ...
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Can't flip ColorRamp vertical using Mapping node (Cycles)
I've been following this post to ColorRamp my mountains according to height - however as much as i fiddle around with the X, Y and Z axis they seem to have no effect vertically and simply point ...
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Texture Not Appearing on the model
I followed the blender Guru tutorial and modeled the Anvil. I made 2 models The larger one is mine where the texture seems to work fine. But the small one in foreground was followed from tutorial and ...
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How to create a hyperspace window effect? [closed]
I would like to create the hyperspace window from the Stargate series. I tried dynamic paint, many different textures (mostly combining gradient and noise), different texture coordinates, displacement ...
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Why the mapping/coordinates/size have no effect on displacement modifier texture?
I am coming from 3ds max and spent all night long trying to understand how the texture mapping work specially when use in the displacement modifier.
When i adjust the texture size in mapping only the ...
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No UV coordinates Substance Painter
Help me with my problem. I cannot solve it myself therefore I am asking you for help. When I made my model, I made the UV after all this I decided to make textures in substance painter, but this ...
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3D texture (UVW map to UV map?)
I have a complex model and I want to apply a Perlin noise texture on it. This model is to be used in a video game.
Because this can be generated, I was thinking of using a 3D texture to avoid having ...
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How to control a procedural texture with an empty?
I´d like to -somehow- assign an empty object to drive a procedural texture. The idea is that I can rotate, scale or move the empty and thus it transform the procedural texture (bricks, noise texture, ...
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How to evenly unwrap / texture long extruded objects with folds and uneven segments?
I've some difficulties to find a satisfactory unwrap solution for this kind of long angled object with uneven segments:
I'm only interested in the brown faces which are delimited by two seams.
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Map a texture to a torus
In my latest render for Instagram I ran into a mapping problem. As a referece, this is the image:
The black and white striped bridge basically is half a torus with two cylinders attached to it. I ...
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Spotlight Texture
I'm quite new to blender cycles and wanted to create a game using Armory3D in blender 2.79 which supports cycles. I started out by creating a character and wanted to add a flashlight that has some ...
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How to unwrap from project from view using marked seams?
The question is in the title. I have a setup angle from where I wanna unwrap my object. But I wanna unwrap it using the premade seams I made earlier.
Also editing the seams in UV-editor is not an ...
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How to keep procedural texture proportion automatically
If I add a procedural texture into node Compositor, it became oval, because of Render's aspect ration.
Does exist a way to math a value for Texture > Scale input socket, that take Render aspect ratio ...
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How to fix stretching issue with Image Mapping?
I'm having trouble of trying to fix this as I'm still new to Image Mapping, does anyone know why stretching happen? I'd be very grateful for someone to help as I've been stuck for several hours on ...
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Creating a Model That Fits a 64x64 Pixel Texture
I want to make a model similar to the Minecraft one but with more joints. Every body part is a separate object with it's own material, texture and UV. What I did first was create a model for the the ...
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How to apply texture the same size on all meshes? ignore mesh\normal size
I'm trying to apply texture to the wall in "Generated - Cube" mode and when i look at it in the Render mode - it has different scales on the different meshes which have different size. The same thing ...
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Color ramp to bump map
I have this black and gold sort of paint melting cycles material. I would like to add depth to the texture using the Color ramp node. How can I create displacement using my current node setup?
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Weird thin lines after unwrap cube uv mapping
It shows a very thin lines at edges after I uv-mapped a cube into a 3x2 grid env-mapping as shown below:
By right it should not show the thin lines and the texture should go smoothly between faces. I ...
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Texture or colour only on the displacement vector
i have this node setup acting as the displacement, what i would like to do is add a texture or a colour only where the displacement is being added on the object, i would like to make molten like ...
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Move UV coords like Object coords?
I want to have a decal texture on an object move based on the location of an empty.
It is possible to use Object coordinates projected from another Object using the drop down in the Texture ...
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Apply texture coordinates from material in Cycles to UV
I'm making a fake Hollywood/LA setting, which has required the use of a Stucco material. Lots of Stucco.
Rather than go through each building object and ensure that the UVs for each material ...
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Reflection from Texture Coordinate Node is stretched
I'm having a problem, or I've found a bug. I'm trying to change the reflection of an extruded cylinder (basically a drinking glass), and the output from the Texture Coordinates node is stretched. ...
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Texture coordinates and armature deformation
I tried using armatures for the first time, and noticed that textures on the mesh 'move', when using the armatures to deform it. I tried both generated coordinates and object coordinates, but both ...
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cycles material -- change color based on position
I'm (ultimately) trying to make a big static group of people using the hair particle system, and the same mesh is (obviously) being repeated (and random sizing is great using hair particles), but I ...
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Cycles: Generate 3d coordinates before modifier stack is resolved
Im trying to create a volumetric material that uses a 3d texture. I need this volumetric to be animated along a curve. Right now, I have the material using generated coordinates. But the 3d texture ...
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Vertex vs texture map
I am trying to select a model vertex by the textures alpha trough the python.
But I cant figure out relationship between meshes vertex, uv-vertex and texture´s pixel rgba information. Can you help ...
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UV face vectors not showing up on uv/image editor textures
as you can see a grew ghost frame shows up in paint mode
but nothing shows up in mask mode
if i hit X on the texture then this shows up. how do i see this with its texture underneath.
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