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DickieGriffin
07-05-2008, 04:14 PM
this is somthing thats always escaped me...

I know textures that are calculated using maths are called 'procedural textures'. But whats the technical name for textures that use with UV's? the ones that get painted in photoshop. are they just called texture maps?

thanks.
soulburn3d
07-05-2008, 05:13 PM
Sure, or bitmap textures. Although be careful here, many procedural textures can run in both 3d AND 2d space, ie, use UVs. So a bitmap texture is not the only kind of pattern that uses UVs. Your first definition I'd say is more correct, a procedural texture is a texture that is created using an algorithm, wheras a bitmap texture is a texture that is stored as a lookup table of values, and then applied to your object.

- Neil
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