Mahogany wood procedural material issues

[DNorman]

Also for question 1, note how «spherical» option works for the wave texture with object coordinates.

Here is a simple example:

As you can see each face that points in a different direction has its own coordinates for the texture. The more faces that have different angles the more x,y,z center points, see what happened to the sphere.

Edti (again!) you could change to generated coodinats it will work better.

If you want your texture to look the same from all angles, the best thing would be to unwrap your object and change the «spherical» option to x, y or z.

Or you could use a force box mapping node setup like the one in this thread:

Box mapping for procedural brick texture in cycles

Hi As mentioned before there is no box mapping for procedural brick texture in cycles like the box mapping option in image texture. Unwrapping is not efficient for walls and buildings because of the extra work and size dependency. There is a work around here named Triplanar mapping that mix three copies of texture projected from three axis to wrap around the object. I made a simplified version which mix only the projection UVs and doesn’t need texture duplication. Some math node with greate…

Edit: you could also check out this thread for triplaner mapping:

Triplanar node - Blender 2.81

Hello is there a triple planar node in Blender 2.81? or through third parties? thanks