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    How do you guys texture clothing, drapes, sheets, etc?

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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator
      last edited by

      You could try this? Just step through the scenes...

      Projected Textures.skp

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      if you right click the final projected mesh and choose 'make unique' (BE PREPARED FOR LOnG WAIT) you get the same result as your suggestion. SU creates a textures each face contained within the mesh. I didn't try your method but noticed the same result when I decided to see what would happen if I made the texture unique on my example.

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      • honoluludesktopH Offline
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        rclub24, Works great for SU, but I can't render it. So you know if it render on another system? Learn something new every day, Thanks ?-)Temp04.jpg

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        • Rich O BrienR Offline
          Rich O Brien Moderator
          last edited by

          Works in Twilight?

          Projected Texture by Twilight.jpg

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          • A Offline
            AcesHigh
            last edited by

            I assume that if you project a texture, if you look straight from an angle, the texture will look PERFECT (like if it was a bitmap never applied over anything).

            on the other hand, surfaces that were near perpendicular to the projected texture would have completely distorted textures applie.

            in the end, I take it that you can do it on SKetchup. The only way would be some program that is able to map textures. MODO perhaps?

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
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              There are free texture mapping softwares out there. And Whaat made a plugin to export geometry to them and re-import it. My understanding is that it is supposed to work fairly seamlessly with SU?

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              • jo-keJ Offline
                jo-ke
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                I've got the same problem. A seemless texture is not too difficult to adjust, but a Texture like the rug in the scene above is tricky to set on the right place. where can I adjust the coordinates of the startpoint of the texture? If SU isn't able to do that, I would be pleased to know a free software to handle this thing.

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  If it is a projected texture, best strategy is to draw a single face (as big as the projection of the whole curtain would be), position the texture on that (this will also define the starting point for the texture co-ordinates), turn it into a projected texture and only then sample it (with the Alt+Paint bucket tool on Windows) and apply it on the curved surface.

                  You can start positioning the texture on the curved surface, too (if you unhide hidden geometry) but the above method is the most "fool proof" and easiest way.

                  Gai...

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                  • jo-keJ Offline
                    jo-ke
                    last edited by

                    Is there a way to get part of the stripes into the right direction, in line with drape?


                    test9-kl.jpg

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                    • I Offline
                      indielyness
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                      @jo-ke said:

                      Is there a way to get part of the stripes into the right direction, in line with drape?

                      Did anyone ever find out how to do this?

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                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Not from within SU. But as mentioned further up there are free uv mapping tools out that work with whaat's uv tool.

                        Best there is, but could be something in the future 😉

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