Newbie – Making a video CYLINDER

[Hig116]

Happy to say that I am figuring it out. I have a cyliner that I have added my video to. What I need to figure out is how to keep the material (video) from applying to the ends of my cylinder. I just need it on the sides.

Any help?

Keith

[Adam Trachtenberg]

You can apply separate materials to the caps (ends) by typing “C1” and “C2” in the texture tag’s “Selection” box. So, create three materials and drop them all on the cylinder. Leave the video material’s texture tag as default, and assign the selections in the other two texture tags.

[Hig116]

Thanks for the help, although I am still not achieving the results. I applied three materials to the cylinder and in the selection text field of two of them I type C1 and C2. The result was each of the materials for the caps are not showing. What might I be doing wrong. I am sure it is elementary.

Thanks,
Keith

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Sorry, Keith, I believe I’ve mislead you. It will work if you create the cylinder by extruding circle spline (with ExtrudeNURBS object). I could’ve sworn the cylinder primitive worked the same way, but apparently not.

[Hig116]

Good, I’m not going crazy. I will give this a try. Thanks for your assistance.

Keith

[Alejandro Torres]

Hi:

Probably a bit to late, but I would recommend you to use one high poly plane with the video material on it and use a bend deformer on it to make it a cylinder.

Hope it helps

Regards

Alejandro