UV outside of the texture - is that an issue?

[IlliciteS]

Hello,
I got that texture for a barrel, and the only way I found to have a somewhat “correct” width for the planks of the barrel is to scale (up or down, I am not even sure) one of the UV island. On the barrel, right panel, it looks okay, I guess. But in the UV pannel, we can see that the Island is way outside of the texture.

Is this a problem, for now or later?

[BH67]

Nope. Grant explains somewhere in this section that when an island does this, the texture repeats itself. That’s why you don’t have any glaring black areas in your model. You’re good! =)

[IlliciteS]

I might have missed that part, or maybe it’s a bit after. Anyway, thank you!

[NP5]

There is a tick box to Repeat the image in the UV pane N Tool Panel. On the right.
Tick it and it shows the image tiled over the whole pane area.
Gives you the reason why overlapping the marked area is not a problem on properly tiled image textures.

[IlliciteS]

Interresting! I’ll take a look at that one.