How to Warp a Procedural Texture?

[Tim Brennan]

I have created a plywood seat and applied a procedural texture – see link and image.

However, I need the layers of ply to only show on the edges. Is there a simple way to correct this?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10Eg9tcNdiHIJo4MXHj1uVBbQpop-qgFh&usp=drive_fs

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Tim @beetle ,

I think you’ll have to use UV Coordinates for this to work and then separate the sides from the rest. For instance:

(The Link says Access Denied btw.)

[Tim Brennan]

Thanks. I fixed the link now.

Forgive me, but UV coordinates are my weakness in Blender. I am very capable in other parts of the software though. Is there a good tutorial to get me up to speed.

[Martin Bergwerf]

It’s an easy Unwrap, because the seat is just a modified cube:

The Creased Edges and one ‘vertical’ one (doesn’t matter which) should be Marked as Seams (CTRL+E). Then Unwrap and Straighten out the side UV’s.

I’d recommend the Fundamentals of Texturing, to get up to speed with UV’s.

There’s two of them, both are good; the CORE one is a bit shorter and uses Blender 4.2.

It’ll probably be easiest to then make two separate Materials for the sides and top/bottom, because a mask would be quite challenging to make in a case like this.

[Tim Brennan]

Is there another way similar to this solution? https://blenderartists.org/t/make-object-texture-coordinate-follow-shape/1459055

[Martin Bergwerf]

HI Tim,

I’m afraid that won’t work in your case.

UV’s are definitely the easiest way to go, I believe. An alternative, would be to make the layers separately:

Apply the Modifiers up til the Array and assign two Materials…

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