Never found a quicker way. So just buckled down with UVW unwrap. Meant the objects needed to be Editable, then UV box projection. Deleted the back face. Fit the UV map to the square image.

Ended up copying the UV coordinates via the texture tag 30 times. I guess that was the workflow solution I was looking for all along.

No rush! Miraculously, I was able to get the wall/catcher to perfectly match the wall in the photo. It was a total jackpot – I just threw in some off-cam walls, and illuminated window portals, and somehow the GI lighting worked out perfectly. I’ll take it. So I can just super-impose the actual rendered painted wall onto the photo in place of the…

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I’m still stuck with r17, prior to the shadow catcher shader. I remember looking into this ages ago, where I wanted to cast some nice ambient occlusion onto a background image using a hidden catcher. But found that the only/best way was to render the object out without shadows (and use an alpha channel), then render again just the shadows on the…

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Hello there! I’m trying to come up with a simple repeatable workflow for wrapping a texture with very specific dimensions around a model of a box canvas, where the edges wrap. And, preferably, without having to unwrap the texture into five faces.

So, if you can imagine a simple 8×8 inch box canvas that is 0.75 inches thick – typical for art…

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