Hello, I am trying to wrap a wood texture on a curved surface and wondering if I can make it look a little better than whats in the attached screen shot?
I turned on hidden geometry and took a sample of the grain for the curved part and filled that in, but, then the very top texture does not line up? If that makes sense?
It would be difficult and probably not worth the time to make it perfect but you could use an end grain material on the end and part way through the roundover. I did that here:
Or you could manipulate the face grain texture to make it sort of look like end grain. Rotate it on the end face a bit and perhaps stretch it using the push pins.
One problem I’ve run into when trying to wrap textures is sometimes the texture on one face won’t copy over to the next face. A solution I found is to make a copy of the geometry.
Basically, try using the eye dropper tool, then painting the face next to it to wrap a texture around the surface.
To get the proper end grain look, I’d recommend using an end grain texture as opposed to a wood surface texture. Although, you could use the same texture for each and have it look good too.
Yeah, except that’s not the way the grain looks on a real piece of wood… Yours looks like there’s been edge banding wrapped around it. That’s great if you want to represent edge banding.
Really to get a more accurate appearance, more images are needed to show the grain transitioning from end grain to long grain. Projecting end grain around the curve might be the closest without spending a ton of time on it. And if it isn’t really going to show enough to be readable as end grain, might not be worth putting any time into it.
Perhaps if we had a photo of the real thing, then making ultra realistic textures would be easier. I looked around for photos, but couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for.
I thought it was a melamine pallet board (laminated fiberboard) with a veneered edge.
But if it is a wooden board, then it would need at least 3 textures to create a realistic image and UV unwrapping + UV mapping.
Real wooden plate with rounded corner
Wow! Thank you sooo much guys! Dave, is right as normally work with solid wood and not termite ■■■■!! :) But, this piece could be built with edge banding just not sure yet??
Without going PBR, I think a projected texture is about as good as you get without using multiple images and distorting the texture. Is there going to be such forensic inspection in the final image in any case!