[Martin Mcghee]

It looks like you haven’t selected the back planes so those weird bars are the faces being generated by the extrusion of the front planes only.
for the result shown in the tutorial you will have to extrude the entire loop inwards, including the backwards facing planes.

You could select all of the loop by having the ‘Use polygon tool’ active and the picking the menu item:

Selection > Loop selection

and picking the middle loop as in the image.

or you could select the planes by having ‘Only Select Visible Elements’ unticked in your default selection tool and picking ‘through’ the front planes.

hope this helps a little, if you’re still not sure, just ask,

good luck,

moxomule.

[Martin Mcghee]

Hi Nicol,

There is one thing first off to note- Cylindrical mapping will most likely give you a better result with less overall distortion and more predictable results that spherical…i couldn’t tell you why, but i have noticed it from experience:

This is a problem which can be fairly easily solved if you have a copy of photoshop handy there is a very useful build in plug-in:

Filter > Distort > Polar coordinates

This has a pop-up which asks if you want Rectangular to Polar or vice versa, choose rectangular to polar.

what you have now is a view of your texture ‘sort of a’ looking straight down from the top- You can now paint out the pinching distortion as you see fit.

when you have painted out the distortion use:

Filter > Distort > Polar coordinates

again only this time choose Polar to Rectangular.

This returns you back to your original image only now you will have what looks like a crazy stretch at the top, this is the texture you have painted stretched out to fit into it’s new texture space.

At this point It’s probably best to save under a new name and re-import it into cinema and render it from an advantageous angle: so you can see how well it works.

After you have seen how amazingly well this sorts your problem 🙂 you have to realise this is only the top that you have fixed:

So back in photoshop again you will have to rotate your entire image 180 degrees and perform the same operations again on the bottom half of your texture…ta da!

like you say this is a very common problem and you will find yourself doing this operation fairly often if you are

Hope this helps, if i wasn’t very clear at any of these points, just ask a question and i’ll see if i can clear it up.

all the best,

Martin.