Texturing a race track - need help!

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Hi, i posted in the news and discussions forum by accident and was told to move it here so here goes!

I have made a 3d model of the monaco grand prix circuit following a tutorial (trace around track with bezier curves, extrude with another cross section curve and convert to mesh) and now i need to texture it. I have 3 textures, a road surface, red/white striped rumble strips and a barrier, each measure 256x256.

I applied the textures by holding ALT and selecting each part of the track to select a loop, 1 for the road suface, 1 for the stripes either side and 1 for the crash barrier. however the textures are all pointing the wrong way and weirdly sized: see this picture

I need some way to make the textures appear as they should ie, the white line in the middle of the road all the way round. Im sure i did this before somehow, i just cant remember how!

if anybody can help or needs some more explaining please help!!!

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Hmm i got as far as using UV textures but that doesnt seem to help either, same kinda thing happens but about a 100 times more complicated :smiley:
Any help would be great!

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I’m just learning UV texturing myself, though I’m sure there’s a way to get this to work.

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Im almost certain i did this before about a year ago using a tutorial which has since been removed…grrr

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Aha finally found the tutorial i used before however he uses an earlier version of blender (with UV face select mode)

http://e2-productions.com/repository/modules/tutorials/files/Create%20a%20Racetrack/New%20Page%201.htm

Does anyone know the equivalent way of achieving this in 2.48a?

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Use the follow active quads UV script bundled with Blender, you get the good results after using the smart projection tool before the follow quads script.

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Oh yeh that did it nicely hooray!!
thanks alot