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Totally new to this stuff and this just seems like magic to me. So the cake is one single model; it is not subdivided into top, bottom and middle. I add this texture.jpg and it goes exactly where its supposed to be. Topping on top, fruits on fruits and bottom on the bottom of the cake. How?

How does the model take the correct texture for fruits and put it perfectly on the fruits and to take the bottom and put it onto the bottom etc. And how does it extract the 3 textures so precisely from the jpg?

Some explanation or a source to get into the topic would be appreciated greatly! Thanks in advance.

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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because is not about blender but UV texturing, and also shows screenshots of another software... – m.ardito Nov 07 '18 at 23:02
  • @m.ardito Note that using another piece of software does not automatically make a question off-topic if the question isn't actually specific to that software. See: https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312/should-we-allow-general-workflow-questions-that-dont-directly-relate-to-blender – Ray Mairlot Nov 08 '18 at 15:42
  • @m.ardito being about UV texturing is correct, but the texture and the cake was made with blender and is just used by other software afterwards, so that is not true. – Jush KillaB Nov 08 '18 at 16:41
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    Possible duplicate of How do texture coordinates work? – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Nov 09 '18 at 01:24
  • @JushKillaB, I believe you, just nothing in your post said you used blender, and your question was about a general texturing concept. This site is specific about issue with blender usage, but everyone needs to learn general concepts, and use them wherever wished or needed, don't worry :) – m.ardito Nov 09 '18 at 08:22

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Do a google search for "UV mapping." "UV"s are texture coordinates that Blender or other software uses to know where to apply the texture. That texture you have happens to coincide with the UV coordinates of the cake. Try another texture and you'll see it doesn't match at all.

Here are a few links to get you started: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/UV_Map_Basics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping https://www.creativebloq.com/features/uv-mapping-for-beginners

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