Mapping a curved road

rcase · April 8th, 2005

Hello,
I am having a hard time mapping a road texture to a curved road object. I lofted a road section on an arc shape and would like to map the road texture to it lining up the road stripe in the texture to the middle of the lofted object. How is this done? Mapping a linear texture to a curved surface has me stumped, please help. Thanks.

Rusty

Chad Warner · April 8th, 2005

When you create the lofted object, there is an option for "uvw mapping" , where you can tell it how many times to tile along the length and width. So you want to set up your material like you normally would, apply it to the loft, and then you will probably have to rotate the map in the material editor to make it line up with direction you want it go. It takes a lot of messing around, but you can get it to work. Check out Ted Boardman's tutorials on this site, he goes over lofting quite a bit.

-Chad

rcase · April 8th, 2005

Thanks. I got it to work by adding Unwrap UVW modifier. That's the only way I could get it to work. Theres a sample pic below.

bokkins · April 9th, 2005

just a suggestion. staight line instead of broken lines for the curve, b'coz it means "no changing lanes on a curve".

vertexART · April 10th, 2005

http://www.cgarchitect.com/resources...tutorial11.asp

April 8th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Chad Warner Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,469 Name: Chad Warner	Re: Mapping a curved road When you create the lofted object, there is an option for "uvw mapping" , where you can tell it how many times to tile along the length and width. So you want to set up your material like you normally would, apply it to the loft, and then you will probably have to rotate the map in the material editor to make it line up with direction you want it go. It takes a lot of messing around, but you can get it to work. Check out Ted Boardman's tutorials on this site, he goes over lofting quite a bit. -Chad

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bokkins Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: quezon city Age: 30 Posts: 155 Name: neil cristobal	Re: Mapping a curved road just a suggestion. staight line instead of broken lines for the curve, b'coz it means "no changing lanes on a curve".

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vertexART Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Belgrade, Serbia Age: 31 Posts: 193 Name: Dejan Ivanovic	Re: Mapping a curved road http://www.cgarchitect.com/resources...tutorial11.asp __________________ www.3dcage.com _____________________________________________ 3DSMax8/MR/Vray

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