UV & repeating texture

[leigh]

But using tiled textures on UV maps kinda defeats the purpose....

If you want to tile images, use standard planar projections instead :)

[Mikko]

Thanx for the reply! I kinda posted the 'same' question in the lightwave forum but did not get the answer i needed.

I think i need to use UVs. Because the road is not straight. And i want to use a tiled texture to keep the filesize down. As i wrote in my previous post the road is curvy, so if Im understanding this there is NO other way than using UVmappin.

I did solve the problem with UVs. I transformed the uv to have one polygon from 0 - 100% and the rest outside... Maby a strange way to do it, I dont know...

How would you do this? If you have a very long road (or whatever) and its not straight so you cant project a map on there...

.mikko

[leigh]

I would make the road, all curvy and that. Then I would save it as a new object and straighten it out, and then unwrap the UVs in a planar fashion on the Y-axis. Then I would morph it back to it's curvy shape using the original version as the morph target. That way I would have a straight representation of the curvy road, so that the grain of the tar and any road markinngs painted onto it would follow the curve ;)

As for tiling textures, I never actually use them... Remember that you cannot tile a texture along UVs, as the UV map is always just a single projection of a square image. You cannot change it's size or give it tiling options, it's just a straight UV map.

So you will have to make a large image map anyway :shrug:

You actually wouldn't necessarily have to use UVs in this case though. You could just get a screengrab of the top viewport and paint a straight planar standard projection style map in Photoshop using the screengrab for the shape of the road.

[Mikko]

Ah morphing... I knew there was a way. I have actualy never used morphing in LW but thats what i was looking for...

As I said i did solve it a bit unconventionaly by having all polys in the road the same size and applying a UV. I wanted to stack all polys on top of eachother which would create a 'tilingtex-effect' but then i read that having polys outside the 'UV-square' made the texture tile...

Thank you very much for your 'assistance' Leigh!!!

...mikko

[leigh]

Anytime :thumbsup:
Glad to hear that it's all working now :)

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