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can someone please explain the whole

xyz
xyz
xyz

set of buttons for me? i REALLY dont understand it

cheers

2

Hi

the xyz buttons set the way/direction that the material will be
applied to the object
you can disable some, or choose only one direction
Ex: to apply a dot material to a cube if you set x
x
x
youl obtain dots in the faces aligned in the X axis , and
probably lines, in the other faces
Make some tries!
Bye
António

3

yea, dont try to understand it. i always try all the combinations, and use the one that looks best.

4

If (for example) the point it’s trying to render is at <1,3,17> on the object, and the default buttons are selected then <1,3,17> is passed to the texture (after scaling and displacing of course…)
If however the buttons are in a different order, say z on the top row, x on the second and z on the last it will be <17,1,17>
The top row corresponds the x ordinate passed to the texture, middle to the y, bottom to the z. If you choose the blank button in a row it uses 0, so blank, blank, Y would pass <0,0,3> in our example.

For an image the bottom row is ignored (the image has no z axis) so the top 2 say which plane to map the image across (if Flat mapping is chosen)

The upshot of all of which is that if you swap eg x and y over in the buttons, the X/Y axes are swapped for the texture mapping.

I agree with blendermax though, it’s much easier to try various combinations and comare the results than to try to predict the result.

5

excellent, hopefully this will correct my wonky texture problem :smiley: thankyou