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The Mapping node transforms the input vector by applying translation, rotation, and scaling. The Vector Math node performs the selected math operation on the input vectors. Use this tag for questions about the Mapping or Vector Math nodes; or other forms of vector mapping.

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Using VDM Brushes procedurally in Geometry Nodes?

I am fascinated by the new possibilities to use VDM Brushes in Blender. I used the VDM Baker Addon to generate a VDM Texture. I thought it might be interesting to use these in Geometry Nodes, to ...
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How do I map a texture along a vector going from multiple objects to the camera? Is it even possible?

I'm trying to make a shader which has a procedural texture mapped along a vector between the camera view and the objects. Imagine the pink arrow as the vector in the picture below. I was able to make ...
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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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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 play a sequence that is mapped to a large 8K image?

So I have a huge 8K (spreadsheet) texture with a sequence of crowd animation on it, this was made to run in Unity where the image file retains it's original size and the UV is moved from left to right ...
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How to get accurate normals from bump height within a material?

I am making a procedural bump shader that needs to interact with other directional data in realtime within the material (as opposed to external lighting). Therefore I need to get the normals from this ...
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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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How to map the Gradient Texture based on the loose parts of a single object?

Is it possible to map the Gradient Texture in a way that no matter the position of the mesh on the space? So $0$ will always be at one end of the mesh and $1$ at ...
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Clip projection mapping to object size

Hi when I use mapping on a object I can scale the texture on the X and Y axis but not on the Z. it there a way to do that so the projection of a texture doesn't go on the other side of the surface.
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Blender Vector importing Blank Space

so Im quite new to blender and Im trying to render a logo in 3D. I have the vector of the logo which looks like this, Its a circle with some lettering in the middle. The middle lettering doesnt touch ...
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How to get normal colors in Geometry Nodes

I am aware of how to get normal vector/color data for a matcap in a material. Example of matcap normal data: But how can that vector/color data be obtained within Geometry Nodes from the input ...
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Is it possible to make HDRI following camera?

I made a landscape with an HDRI that I want to use on the final render. But the thing is as I navigate the scene via camera, the World stays the same, which makes everything completely fake. I know I ...
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How can I shrink the size of a mapped texture?

I have an eye texture as shown below I want to be able to change the size of both the black pupil and the entire eye itself. but I don't think I can do it with mapping because I already have that to ...
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Same name modelling and texture linking

I have folder A and folder B. There are many textures like "Image 1" in folder A, and many terrain models like "Image 2" in folder B. I want to connect the textures of the same ...
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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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Vector Rotate scattered curves along mesh?

how can I rotate scattered curves(converted to mesh and realized) like upward the mesh they're scattered on? But not just upwards, I'd like to know how to do it in all directions along the surface of ...
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How exactly does the coordinate system work in Blender shader?

I am trying to understand how the Blender coordinate system works in shader. So I create a plane with this simple shader: I tried to move the coordinate origin point with a vector math node to the ...
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How to edit live map on BlenderGIS?

Can I animate a live map on BlenderGIS? I wanna make map animations in Blender using BlenderGIS add-on. Currently I came to know that I can export from the live maps and then can animate. But I wanna ...
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Object Info node Random value for one axis only

I'd like to randomize only X Location (texture mapping). Is there a way to do it?
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Project equirectangular image to a plane correctly

I have a large equirectangular colour image of the earth. I was wondering if there's an easy or fairly correct way to project it so that a section of it correctly renders on a flat plane? Colour image:...
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Shader using DotProduct is creating stranger shadows

I am attempting to create a stylized moss shader. My strategy is to use a dotproduct as shown below to drive an alpha mask. In this example the mask material is applied to a sphere which is slightly ...
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How to drive noise textures position with attributes?

I'm working on a fire simulation and I've been using a noise texture to remove parts of the fire. So far I've just animated the Z value of the mapping to move the noise up. But I saw someone use an ...
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How can I catch the XYZ coordinates for a curved road? [duplicate]

I'm making a curved road made with Geometry Nodes but I'm not able to get the mapping right. I kind of managed to get the X and the Y right, but I'm just not able to also get the Z right. As you can ...
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How to create a 3D Cam Carpet

I want to be able to create a visible correct 2d image to be placed on a football stadium grass. The final image have to be perceived as faux 3d from the camera view. How to handle the math of this ...
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How to use flowmap texture for rotation instances

I wanted to use flowmap texture for direction / rotation of instances generated by geometry nodes. I saw quite nice explanation of basics behind, but ... it says in one part - pure Green channel goes ...
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How to make snap operator not use transplate?

Just appoint two vertices\edges\face, The snap operator autocomplete. I have achieved the vertices mode, Calculate the translation matrix from vertex1 to vertex2, Then translate the object1's location,...
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Dilate/Erode image in Shader Editor?

In the compositor you can dilate/erode an image based on pixel brightness, like this : I'm wondering if there is a way to do the same in the Shader Editor (maybe with some clever vector math?). I'm ...
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How to create Shape Keys in Geometry Nodes, including support for curve handles?

I am trying to replicate the functionality of Shape Keys but in Geometry Nodes. At the core of the setup I am using the technique quellenform introduced in this answer, but I am adding the ability to ...
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How to set Euler rotation order in vector rotate node?

The vector rotate node has a Euler mode. My first problem is that it doesn't state what the Euler rotation order it uses. XYZ? ZYX? YZX?, which is it? My second ...
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GN: How to pass bounding box mapping to each realized instance?

In Geometry Nodes I have an instanced object with its material appearing correctly until I drop a Realize Instances node into the tree. What breaks is the mapping. It's my understanding that support ...
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Adjusting repeated texture with voronoi

im following a CGCookie tutorial and its mainly for repeating 1 or more textures and getting them to overlap. From what I understand its using the voronoi cells to repeat the vector coordinates of the ...
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Rotate edges in global space around their first vertex in Geometry Nodes

I have some mesh edges and would like to rotate them around a global Z, using their first vertex as the origin for that rotation. So far the setup has a couple successes: I can rotate around the ...
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How to rotate a Texture Gradient with Geometry Nodes?

I have a plane, subdivided a couple of times and instanced cones onto the points with Geometry Nodes. The scale is set by a (linear) gradient texture along the X-axis. I was able to translate the ...
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How does image texture box mapping blend work?

When I use an image texture with box mapping it gives me a blend value. When I increase the blend value it blends the texture at the seams. How does this work? Does it do a rgbMix Mix operation based ...
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How can I make my texture loopable on a cube

I'm trying to put this loopable wallpaper on this wall and no matter how i mess with the UVs, i cant make it loop. is there some other way to do this? here is the blend file
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Procedural cel shaded displacement material

I have a material which creates procedural sphere displacement to create a random blob. I want to cel shade the blob, however as far as I can tell this is only possible with EEVEE ...
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How to texture mapping like this?

I know how to UV mapping and projection mapping however, in this image, uv mapped using top projection result texture is not bleeding or stretched. Even side faces is not stretched I think there's ...
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looking for a way to evenly space objects instances across mesh

I'm wondering what the best way is to evenly distribute objects onto another object. I have a circular object that I would like to evenly distribute these instances onto. I was thinking geometry nodes ...
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Offset a repeating image texture position

I am modeling a kitchen. Is there a way to offset an image that is repeating on the floor in the x-axis so that it looks more tiled?
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How to make make a texture scale absolute [duplicate]

I'm trying to make a shader that has a texture that follows its surface (generated mapping/ object mapping) as well as having said texture stay the exact same scale regardless of distance and without ...
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Geometry Nodes: Joining geometry breaks material's UV mapping

I'm using Geometry Nodes to create a sort of template object, with geometry being joined together from other objects and materials assigned to the different parts. While creating the node setup I ...
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Mapping voronoi cell local space align perpendicular to a spherical surface?

With blenders voronoi texture each cell has a local space. My goal is to use these voronoi cells to scatter a volumetric shader, like the volumetric gizmos below, with each volumetric cell instance ...
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Problems with Textures [duplicate]

Hello i have 2 problems with textures 1.i use (Texture Coordinates) with image texture on cube (or any mesh that isn't flat plane). the texture is in 2 places at the same time how to fix this here ...
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Correct map procedural brick texture on cube

Could somebody help my place texture to all sides of the box? First I found topic on forum:How can I make my procedural brick texture map correctly to both a cube and cylinder? Then I made a nodeset: ...
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How to get the "Window Texture coordinates" in Geometry nodes?

Could anyone please help me in finding out how to get the "Window" Texture coordinates that is found in texture coordinate node in shader editor? The window coordinate node in the shader ...
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UV mapping shading different on each part

I was wondering if there is an easy fix for making the texture appear the same on the whole object, despite having multiple cuts in the UV map. It is imported from OnShape as object, that's the reason ...
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I can't bake the texture: "Baking map saved to internal image, save it externally or pack it"

Hello I just started to testing "baking". I created "BaseColor" texture and I joined everything on one model, pressed Ctrl–A Apply > Scale & Rotation and Smart UV. After the ...
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UV Map faces do not match face in edit mode

My faces don't match the UV map faces selected, I've been trying to figure it out the whole day. The UV map is correct and is correctly correlating to the faces, but the texture placement is ...
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Move UV texture in screen space?

I have a UV mapped texture. I want to be able to adjust its location with the mapping node (or other vector math.) in Screen space. If you put the UV vector through a mapping node and change the ...
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Traceback (most recent call last): BlenderGIS

I'm using the BlenderGIS add on. When importing digital terrain models (or DEMS) which are ESRI ASCII Grid (.asc) files, I get this error message. I'm pretty new to blender but trying to create 3D ...
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