Applying wood texture to a doughnut shape
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Well, I've tried everything I can think of, so once again I've come to the experts
I'm trying to apply a wood grain texture to a steering wheel. The right way, with the grain running around the wheel instead of in bands. I've got no problem with projecting textures, but nothing I've tried has come close to looking like a real wooden steering wheel, and you just can't have a decent 67 GTO without a nice wooden steering wheel. Hopefully I'm just overlooking something obvious. Any suggestions?
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@hellnbak said:
Well, I've tried everything I can think of, so once again I've come to the experts
I'm trying to apply a wood grain texture to a steering wheel. The right way, with the grain running around the wheel instead of in bands. I've got no problem with projecting textures, but nothing I've tried has come close to looking like a real wooden steering wheel, and you just can't have a decent 67 GTO without a nice wooden steering wheel. Hopefully I'm just overlooking something obvious. Any suggestions?
'If you divide the steering wheel into an equal number of segments around the centre point, then make one segment and texture it with the wood grain running in the desired direction, you can then multi copy this segment around the centre point, the wood grain will then run concentric to the centre point
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Thanks for your input. Unfortunately I've tried that, the problem being that real wood grain does not run perfectly straight, and because of that it ends up looking very strange. The grain on one segment does not line up perfectly with the grain on the next segment, etc, etc. I need a way to apply grain to the entire wheel, somehow, and make it look natural and real.
Don't ask much, do I
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If something like this, it was made with UV Tools:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=10404
cylindrical projection. Should have set image size better (and probably a better image).
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Thanks, this might do the trick. Even if it doesn't, it looks like something that's going to be very useful in other projects.
It's very difficult to know about all these plugins and which ones might be useful to me. There are so many out there, and you can't always go by the plugin name to know if it's what you need to solve a particular problem. Jeez, here I am complaining that there are so many fantastic plugins being created. There's just no pleasing me
A question - whenever I go to a forum site about a new plugin, or at least new to me, I've found that I have to carefully look at all pages of the post (and some of them have quite a few pages), just to make sure that a new version hasn't been created to solve a problem. I've found new versions of plugins buried deep within the post, just a couple of times, but enuf that I can't take the chance of just downloading the initial version at the beginning of the post. Is there any way to make sure the final version is the one at the beginning? Just nitpicking I suppose, but thought I'd ask.
Thanks again.
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@hellnbak said:
Is there any way to make sure the final version is the one at the beginning? Just nitpicking I suppose...
No, not nitpicking at all. We indeed encourage plugin authors to update the first post of the topic instead of posting new versions somewhere on page 6 of a discussion (we cannot really make this a "requirement" however; everyone is free to post his stuff as he/she wishes).
IMO this has become a general practice however (if you cannot even make it 100% sure they are following it). When you see the "updated" and similar words in the first topic title, it should be that way however (if the author took the time to edit the first post, he probably did so with the attachment, too).
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