UV unwrap a curve as though it were straight?

Support Materials and Textures
#1

Suppose I can model a race track, and want to put a dotted line down the middle of the track? What would be a good approach to something like this?

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I would be open to removing the triangles like this if it makes it easier to do:

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Then every quad in the mesh would need to be a rectangle in the UV map.

#2

Get rid of the triangles, make each face pretty much the same are (subdivide the long edges) then look at unwrapping using the ‘follow active quads’ option.
See
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc%3A2.6/Manual/Textures/Mapping/UV/Unwrapping#Follow_Active_Quads

#3

Oho! That does pull it off very nicely. Thanks.