Forum: Carrara


Subject: Cylindrical mapping question

HARBINGER-3D opened this issue on Mar 08, 2002 ยท 5 posts


HARBINGER-3D posted Fri, 08 March 2002 at 10:09 AM

Um, why when I have a cylindrical shaped model and select the cylindrical mapping mode for the shader and use a texture map, does the texture map stretch out and distort at the edges - shouldn't it go smoothly around the cylnder? What am I missing here?


Kixum posted Fri, 08 March 2002 at 11:07 AM

Could you post an image? -Kix

-Kix


HARBINGER-3D posted Fri, 08 March 2002 at 11:28 AM

Sorry - not at the moment.


AzChip posted Fri, 08 March 2002 at 5:06 PM

Make sure your mapping direction is aligned with the physical direction of the cylinder. In RDS, at least, the default is aligned with the Z axis; if you created the cylinder in the freeform modeler, it's default alignemtn is along the Y axis. If you don't change the mapping mode's alignment, you'll get all sorts of distortion. Hope this helps! - Dex


willf2 posted Sat, 09 March 2002 at 12:21 AM

Also make sure that your t-map is in the same proportions as your model.