modeling without distorting texture projections?

[Atyss]

The problem is that you are freezing the object. When you do that, you are assigning explicit UV coordinates to the object. In practical terms, it means that now the vertices hold the placement for the texture. So, if you move a vertex, it moves the texture with it. There is nothing you can do about it. The only solution would be to project the image and not freeze until you have a big stack.

Maybe you should consider using rotoscopy or planes with textures instead of applying the image directly on the object.


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Bernard Lebel

[nighthwk1]

I already have a rotoscope image in my projecting camera's viewport, and it certainly does help, but it's difficult to do all the modeling from this view.

Because I will be moving the camera in this scene after the model is done, I need to make sure that it looks good from slightly different angles -- so I do need the texture actually projected on the model.

It would be really disappointing if this was a limitation of XSI...

[chris.scherer]

I have not found another way besides the rotoscpe view.

Problem is: UVs in camera projections are defined in two layers, the projection for the object (that´s why you can move the object through an object) and the UVs of the vertices (meaning you can additionally offset UVs, even when the projection is moving). Irritating, yes, but I guess you could also make some kewl distortion-effects.

Perhaps there´s some scripting-way to either reproject every now and then or to compensate for the Vertice-Movement via UV-movement. However, I guess that´d mean projecting it all again, so, basically stick either to rotoscoping the whole image or (if the resolution is too high) tile the image and perform multiple projections.

A tip: As you can scale, move and rotate an object while keeping the projection just approximate any shapes with planes and stuff.

[nighthwk1]

Is there at least some way to re-project the texture without creating new projection nodes?

Something like a "refresh projection" command?

By the time I finish, the list of projections will be quite large.

[Atyss]

Why not deleting the previous projections?

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