About 'What Is UV Mapping?'!

[Michael_Bridges]

In this video (objectives)…

1. Understand what we use UV Unwrapping for
2. Texture Co-ordinate node
3. How to quickly unwrap a model

After watching (learning outcomes)…

You will understand that you need to tell Blender HOW to apply am image to a model.

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[Stephen_Jenkins]

One useful thing to know is if you use generated coordinates and pick “box” from the projection drop-down in the image texture (default is flat) then it looks correct. I learnt that at Blender Conference 2018

This is because “flat” projects from top down, so faces which aren’t facing up or down look distorted.

[Michael_Bridges]

Funny you should mention that… We cover it a little later on

[Anders_Iversen]

Here’s my six objects with the cracked earth material - torus and cylinder doesn’t work well out of the box.

[Jada]

Testpicture: 32 seconds, 32 samples, cycles.