I know I could figure this out if I spent enough time experimenting and going over the books I have, but if someone could summarize it in English for me, it would save me a lot of time :-) Let's say I have a cylinder capped by two spheres, making a Tylenol -like shape (this is from a great starship tutorial that I don't have the link for right off hand). Now, I'm supposed to squash the cylinder/spheres along two axis to where it looks somewhat like a bar of soap (I don't really know how else to describe it - if you've seen any of the "Star Chaser" pics, you know what I'm talking about). Now, I'd like to put a nice hull texture on that, and I'd like to be able to move the object in an animation. What kind of mapping can I use? I've found that a lot of the good hull textures use World Space mapping, so that's out (because of animation), and the materials distort out of rhyme and reason on this shape if I choose, say Object Space or Parametric. Should I perhaps map the texture to the two spheres and the cylinder before joining them? What about when I squash the whole thing? Is keeping a good looking texture/material layout in this situation even possible? Thanks!

Ah - dang, I have a feeling it has to do with the frequency (repetitions) of the material/texture pattern - for which I am so lame I can't figure out how to do it (yet) L BUT - if you've got a Bryce 4 manual, I believe the texture mapping section may help - found on pages 228 to about 234. Hope this helps & please let me know if it does work. :)

I do have the manual :-), but as with so many things, manuals and even 3rd party books tend to use 2 pages to explain something that could be said in a single paragraph. I was just hoping someone could distill the idea for me.

if you have patched bryce use object cubic.Sounds like it's more than one object and you'll never get it to map as one.