I can't seem to figure out how to adjust a texture on a simple primitive. Can anyone, explain this to me? I mean it seems straight forward, but no matter what I try, it doesn't behave the way I think it should.

For example, in the picture above, the stone texture is squished. So I'm thinking if I stretch in the Y direction, the stone's height should increase, but it doesn't.

Message edited on: 04/15/2005 09:26

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hmmm... everything -seems- to be fine... try setting it against a CUBE and lets see what happens... use parametric again and set all scaling, rotations, and translations to 0... well worry about those settings later :P

Set to object cubic and tile the texture by setting X to around -40.

You could try object cubic. As to altering the mat size, try making the x and z maybe 4 with y still at zero in the top part of the mat editor.

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This is tiled cubic and the X set at -40%. Still on quite there. And why is it so damn dark? I hate having to use Ambience to up the brightness. It makes it look too fake.

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Not a bad guess though!

Change the texture to default grey(simple and fast),then check diffuse;ambient;diffusion and bump height,your photo texture should look OK!...dont forget to set bump height.

Okay, let me try be clear. Go to where you put the mapping type and: 1) remove the Pict Interpolation (makes pictures fuzzy) 2) check Repeat Tiling Cubic mapping should work, but set the size on all axes at about 20-25%, not -40. OTOH, the scale depends on how big your object is. The texture was squished because the dimensions of the pic don't match the dimensions of the object. If you have an object of 5x6 Bryce Units per side, a pic of 400x350 pixels will not look good. NOtice the difference in scales? That's first. The second thing, the scaling of the texture depends on the scale of the object. So if you scale the object down on Y axis, scale the texture UP on Y axis. Instead of using, let's say 20, use 10, 12, 15, whatever matches the situation. Then, you have to use the ambience. Every object has ambience. Only too much ambience makes a texture look fake. For this kind of stone, the ambience should be around ten, or possibly higher. Depends on the situation. As jedswindells says, put the texture into Diffuse and Ambient. This orange is wrong. Also, put a simple white into volume and lower the refraction to 100. It shouldn't make any difference with non-transparent materials, but sometimes it does. Never really looked into it, though. Use a bit of specularity too. Around five would be okay. And no, the texture on the object will never look exactly like in the flat photo.

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