Is it possible to use a vector as an actual image texture? I’m not talking about importing it directly, I mean using it like you would any bitmap texture, UV mapping and all.
Is it possible?
Nope, I don’t think so. Maybe with an add-on, but by default the open image dialog doesn’t recognize SVGs.
there was some code for using SVGs as textures, don’t know if the code is still working with the last versions of Blender, but you can check it out:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/vectex/wikis/Documentation.wiki