Covering Surfaces with Textures?

[Jedi_Mediator]

Very possibly one of THE most stupid questions ever asked, but I'll ask it anyway.


How do you cover a surface with a .jpg (or any other format) texture? Is this what the Image Map Shader is for?

[dhavalmistry]

yes you can use Image Map Shader and you can use through camera or Play Y projection...Plan Y is a better choice...unless you are texturing a wall.....

[jaf]

This looks like a good place to ask this.

I've started playing with using tiled image maps for paths and such, but I don't seem to see a way to scale the image map.  Is there a different term than scale or maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

Next week we are going on a camping trip to the Anza Borrego Desert (Southern California) and I plan on taking some "texture pictures" that I hope to use.

[peejay]

where it says size: the box on the left is x-scale, the right y-scale, if you click on the tab that says flip, repeat, you can set it to tile

[jaf]

Thanks!  I had been working with object populations and guess I was thinking the size was the area the image would cover, not the size of the individual "tiles".

[bobbystahr]

Thanks!  I had been working with object populations and guess I was thinking the size was the area the image would cover, not the size of the individual "tiles".

Well actually it is...the 1 represents 1 meter so if you have a square image and left that as it is it would only cover 1 m of terrain...tiling it covers the planet.

[jaf]

Okay, I guess what I meant is, if I set a crop render on a certain area and used an image for that area, is it possible to scale to scale that image to the same area at 50% or 200% without tiling?