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<h1>Texture Projection Details</h1>
<h2> Overview </h2>
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A Texture Projection helps you apply a 2D image texture
map to a group of faces in a spherical or cylindrical
fashion. There is a also a plane projection you can use if the
Group Map scheme in the coordinate window is not aligned
to the axis of your mesh.
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A texture projection does not have a 2D texture associated
with it. Any faces that use the texture projection
to assign texture coordinates will use whatever texture
is applied to their group.
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<h2> Creating Texture Projections </h2>
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Use the
<a href="olh_tools.html#projection">Create Projection</a> tool
to create a texture projection.
After creating the projection, you can add faces to the
the projection by selecting the faces and then
selecting the "Texture Projection" from the
<a href="olh_properties.html#projection">Projection Properties</a>
panel, or by using the "Add Faces To Projection" button
in the <a href="olh_projectionwin.html">Projection Window</a>.
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<h2> Other Texture Projection Details </h2>
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After creating the projection
you can change the type of projection (sphere, cylinder, plane)
Using the <a href="olh_projectionwin.html">Projection Window</a>
or by selecting the Projection Type from the
<a href="olh_properties.html#projection">Projection Properties</a>
panel.
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You can resize the projection by selecting it and then using
the <a href="olh_tools.html#scale">Scale Tool</a>.
You can rotate the projection using
the <a href="olh_tools.html#rotate">Rotate Tool</a>.
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On the cylinder and sphere projections you will notice that one
of the dashed lines is thicker than the others. This is the "seam",
or the location where the texture coordinates wrap around the
edges of the 2D texture. You can rotate the projection to change
where the seam is applied to the mesh.
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<h2> See Also </h2>
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<li> <a href="olh_facedetails.html">Faces</a> </li>
<li> <a href="olh_groupdetails.html">Groups</a> </li>
<li> <a href="olh_materialdetails.html">Materials</a> </li>
<li> <a href="olh_projectionwin.html">Texture Projection Window</a> </li>
<li> <a href="olh_painttexturewin.html">Paint Texture Window</a> </li>
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