Rock Object UV

[WAS]

Seems like the rock objects UV is a little whacked in the polar region. Textures don't work right. I noticed this before trying to use PBR Materials in the past, but forgot about it when trying to do some basic coral. Thought I'd make note of it here.

I tried subdivided, or not, as well as 10 - 64 - 256 - 512 - 1024 -2048 faces. Seems it just out of my control.

[Matt]

The texture coordinates are in 3D; they are not UVs. If you treat them as UVs then you're only using the X and Y coordinates; in other words you are doing a projection along the Z axis.

[WAS]

So wait. But it's a spheroid?  How would one go about proportionate texturing from image? Plan Y for example will just present the same problem on it's terminator with the ground.

[Dune]

Might not even be possible, as spherical projection needs a central location for each rock. What I sometimes do with image maps is mix several projections as good and bad as it goes.

[WAS]

Hmmm true. But with how primitive the rock object is, especially with low faces you'd think a UV could be easily baked on the fly like mesh displacing.

[Dune]

Also true. But that's for Matt to implement.