• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Sizing textures

  Posted by Matt Gerard on February 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm

  Rookie question here-

  I made a tube with these specs-
  INNER RAD- 445
  OUTER RAD- 450
  ROTATION SEG- 10
  CAP SEG-1
  HEIGHT- 175
  HIEGHT SEG- 1

  Right now it is still a primitive object. I want to create a texture that has stills of several products on it and wrap the outside of the tube with the texture so it looks like, well, a tube with a bunch of products pasted to the outside of it. The tube has a glass material applied to it so it is slightly transparent. See the image to see what I have now-Question is how do I size the texture properly when I create it in photoshop so that it doesn’t distort the images in the texture?

  Also, how can I keep the texture only on the outside face of the tube, and not wrap around to the inside face?

  Thanks!

  Matt

  

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  Matt Gerard

  February 5, 2009 at 10:58 pm

  Okay folks, after a little (ok, alot) of futzing, I got this far. Not I can’t get how to get my texture to show on the OUTSIDE of the ring, not the inside.

  Any ideas?

  

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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 6, 2009 at 12:44 am

  As far as I know, the only way to do it is to make the primitive editable, select the inner polygons, create a polygon selection tag, and restrict your texture to the selection (drag the tag into the tex tag’s “Selection” box).

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