Looking for a texture

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Hi all,
I’m looking for a texture: I want to model a can of Coca Cola for one of my projects, and I can’t find any Coke-can texture to be used either with UV-maping or cylindrical-mapping…
Does anyone have one and is willing to share?
Thanks in advance… :expressionless:
OlivS

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1 - buy yourself a can of coke
2 - drink
3 - cut apart (get rid of top and bottom, any descent sciccors will do the job)
4 - scan the now “unwrapped” can (hey, this is realworld mesh unwrapping)

while using the web a lot, some people forget what they can get from the real world :slight_smile:

marin

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Real world unwrapping rules! :smiley:

I unwrapped a football (soccer) once.

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yeah - though it get’s messy with fish, owls or other animals :wink: make sure you have one layer of cling film between your scanner and the living tissue

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Or roll the coke can along the scanner at the same speed as the light-ccd-thingy moves underneath it :slight_smile:

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is it for a closeup? if its not, use this…

http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/corel_draw/images/cokecan_graphics_lg.jpg

or this for if its really far

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_xMtAisPC98J:uranus.spaceports.com/~seymor/models/coketex.gif

the second one is the one i used for my photoreal stairs

heres someones attemp with a scanner

http://www.p7a77.net/misc/scanner/coke.jpg

(source is google images)

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or take several (more than 5) pictures of it, with no flash and very diffuse lighting

merge using a panoramic mergin tool, such as the one in photoshop

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Unfortunately, yes, it was for a closeup… In the other case, I would have used my own scanned-manually-unwrapped coke texture, but the resulting texture was way worse than the unrolled one you showed me and I don’t even kept the raw pic on my hard disk: I tried to post-process the scan in Gimp but there was too much distorsion and metal crackles everywhere… I’m considering to forfeit this part of my idea for my project :frowning: Nevermind, and thank you for your researches, SkeLeToR :slight_smile:

OlivS

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You could use it as a guide for painting a clearer map in Illustrator or whatever program you use. (since it turned out too grainy and a bit distorted)