dbigers opened this issue on May 03, 2004 ยท 18 posts
dbigers posted Mon, 03 May 2004 at 11:05 PM
I have a question, I think I asked this before but not sure it was ever answered. In Carrara is it not possible to actually place textures exactly where you want them? What I mean is, is it possible to shift a texture on an object and resize the texture? If I create a texture map or import a previously created texture, am I limited to how Carrara thinks it should be placed with regards to location and scale? This feature is in most every 3-D program I have used. Makes it very simple to animate textures. Just change the textures position over time. Realistic water can be created like this by just animating a bump maps position moving up through a surface. Also it is very nice to be able to position textures to get them exactly where you want them. Working with layers on the polygon is really not what I am talking about. Besides that is way too much work just to move a texture on the surface of the model. If I import a texture of a marble tiled floor and I dont like the way it lines up with regard to the walls, am I forced to either remodel the object or change the walls so they line up with the texture how I like? If the texture map window had numeric entries for location and scale as well as rotation it would be a lot better. Perhaps I am missing something though. Also, every parameter should have this. Not necessarily the Smart Functions, but the texture map and all the noise functions to name a few should have this feature. Is this not possible in Carrara? If so, this is a very serious limitation which is unexplainable. This program has so many cool features and some really advanced ones too. Could something this basic be missing? Im not a programmer, but I would think with all the advanced things Carrara does and does very well that something as basic as this would be easy for their programmers to implement.