Forum: Carrara

Subject: cubic mapping in Carrara?

multimediator opened this issue on Oct 31, 2001 · 7 posts

multimediator posted Wed, 31 October 2001 at 11:18 AM

Greetings! I'm currently learning Carrara, and wondering if there's a cubic mapping option for texture maps (I've only found parametric, cylindrical, spherical, and flat). I've attached an image I made in Amapi with the effect I want--the texture mapped onto each side of the cube. Is there a way to achieve this easily in Carrara?

vhigh posted Wed, 31 October 2001 at 12:00 PM

Use the flat mapping or box(RDS option then click the all sides option. That should do it.

multimediator posted Wed, 31 October 2001 at 4:40 PM

Vhigh, thanks. Using the Carrara flat mapping "full box" option simply gives me the above image (there's no "all sides" option I can find). Help?

vhigh posted Wed, 31 October 2001 at 5:07 PM

sorry, I should test my solutions before submitting them. I don't have Carrara with me but, try tiling now. 4 horizontal and 2 or 3 vertically. I'm not this will work but try variations of this i.e. 2 horz and 4 vert. The idea is to repete it four times for the sides and 2 for the top and bottom. I hope this works and again I'm sorry for giving untested advice.

ppowellaa posted Wed, 31 October 2001 at 7:22 PM

try this.

vhigh posted Thu, 01 November 2001 at 9:20 AM

Yes, that's the way to put different pictures on a cube. I tested my solution and it's tiling 3 for horizontal and 4 for vertical to get the above effect.

multimediator posted Thu, 01 November 2001 at 9:55 AM

Both solutions worked well. Thanks very much for your help!