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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Texturing a Skysphere

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Dave J
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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 06:36
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I'm sure there's an easy way to solve this problem so I'm going to ask before going to long lengths to get it to work. I have a 5,000 radius skysphere that I want to texture map with a 256*256 texture, if I just do "Texture Object" then the texture becomes distorted and really large, I can manually make the texture larger in a paint program and it comes out nice and clear but I don't want to waste a lot of hard drive space with a large texture.

I had the impression that "SET OBJECT TEXTURE" to 0 would repeat the texture on the skysphere over and over without distorting it but alas.
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Engulfed by Darkness
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 04:58
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Use the "Scale object texture object number, U value, V value command after you texture the object.

The U value controls the horizontal size of the texture and
the V value controls the vertical size of the texture.

Ex.1. Scale object texture object number, 2.0, 2.0 <---This will double texture size both horizontally and vertically.

Ex.2. Scale object texture object number, 0.5, 0.5 <---This will make the texture half as large horizontally and vertically.

A U,V value of 1, 1 will not change the texture scale.
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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 09:01
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Exactly what I was looking for, because that's what I use within 3ds max, guess I just assumed the scale texture command was something else, heh. Thanks.

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