• Maxon Cinema 4D

  mapping problem

  Posted by Mattia Pasquini on May 24, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Hi, I’m trying to create a slot machine effect.
  It’s really simple, I created a cylinder (80m radius, 62m height) and splitted the external faces; then I created a tiff 522×62 with the numbers from 0 to 9. I want this map to be applicated like a sticker on the rounded part of the cylinder, so I set “projection” to flat, “side” to front and tried to offset the map but it doesn’t work fine.
  The map is only on the front half of the cylinder (if I rotate to animate, the other side is blank), so I tried to set “side” to both but the numbers are repeated on the other side and flipped..
  Where is my fault?
  mat

  Mattia Pasquini replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  May 24, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  use cylindrical mapping. You likely have to Use the Texture Tool to line it up
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  Mattia Pasquini

  May 25, 2008 at 2:11 pm

  yo! you’re right, I finally discovered the problem! I wasn’t understanding the direction of the arrows in the cylindrical map grid.. the picture had to be rotated in photoshop so now the mapping matches the grid.
  Thanks for helping!

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