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Questions tagged [texturing]

Questions relating to Blenders texturing tools and texturing techniques.

Texturing is the process of applying a 2D image or pattern onto a 3D model to add extra detail. Textures can affect and influence almost any property of a material including:

  • base diffuse color
  • specularity
  • transparency
  • reflectivity
  • emission

Normal maps can used to affect the light and add fake "bumps" to the surface of the object.

For more information check out the Blender Manual pages on texturing in Blender Internal and Cycles, as well as some general info on Wikipedia.

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Why are all the textures in my file pink?

I made a character, and its one of my first times texturing, and I saved my character into a new folder, and when I came back to the model ALL the textures were pink, I used to know what to do, but I stopped texturing, how do I bring my textures…
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Extracting a UV layout

I have a 3D truck model already textured and properly imported into Blender. This is a game model and I need to "re-paint" with design from other transport companies. The problem is that I don't have a UV layout (skin template) to serve as a guide…
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How do I make a normal/displacement map when all I have is a photo?

In order to make a rendering look more realistic some additional maps are useful. The documentation lists: diffuse,specular displacement-maps . I watched a video tutorial The Secrets of Realistic Texturing which uses a commercial tool. Are there…
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Emboss text onto curved surface

I am fairly new to blender and I am trying to do something which I am assuming is fairly straight forward with no success. All I'm looking to do is emboss some text onto the curved part of a yogurt pot. Image attached below. What is the quickest and…
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How do I change the file path for all the textures used?

I have made a scene in blender following some tutorials, however, since my C drive was getting too loaded, I shifted all my Blender stuff to the D drive. Now when I make a render in blender, all objects have a Purple colour to them. Reading other…
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How I could replicate this bumpy texture?

I was curious if anyone had any ideas on how I could replicate this texture? If I start playing around with texture displacements, but it always breaks the mesh. Any help would be appreciated!
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I'd like to have portions of a texture not glossy

I have a skyscraper building but I only want the glass in the texture to be glossy. How would I accomplish this? Ok, I have done a test and here are the results. Here is the original: here is an adjusted image
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What's a good strategy for texturing large objects?

I'm wondering about the best way to go about setting up textures for a house meant for a game. I've read some things that say I should create a single large texture (2056x2056), paint all my details into there and then shrink it down to a smaller…
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How to adjust size and frequency of procedural texture independently

I'm trying to create a procedural texture based material in which I can get a transition from a completely black area to a completely white one by decreasing the size of the black parts of the texture (I make use of Color Ramp to get only pure black…
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How can a texture converted to be tileable (seamless)?

When using photos as textures they are usually not tileable and create patterns like: Is there any method in Blender to make images tileable?
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How to align multiple wave textures?

When creating wood textures in Blender, I often use the Cycles 'Wave' procedural texture (the equivalent of the Blender-Internal 'Wood' texture). I can use it to create what appears to be very realistic wood grain. However, I run into a problem…
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'Nabla' setting for cloud texture

What does the 'Nabla' setting for a cloud texture do? Nothing seems to be changing when i change the value. I'm tweaking a texture and i'm just curious how i can tweak it even better. The tooltip says: Size of derivative offset used for…
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How do you apply a texture to select faces of a mesh

I have build a basic house but I would like to use different textures for the roof and walls. Here is what I have now. The brick texture is on the roof when i want it to be a different texture
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How to add same texture to multiple objects

How do I give all selected objects the same texture without manually applying the texture to each and every object? I am trying to get some sort of box texture onto all of these cubes: Any steps on how to do this?
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How to re-link files which have paths that have become invalid (can't be found)?

I have a Blender project with planes with image textures on them, but the images aren't being loaded. I'm pretty sure I have the images as well, but the person who uploaded all this apparently didn't keep the original folder structure. Where can I…
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