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I'm following a tutorial on YouTube but my model (and many others') turn brown when rendering (cycles render) instead of a wood texture. Here's what it looks like:

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Interestingly, the text does have the texture:

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EDIT Starts now: Here's the shader nodes:

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And here's the .blend file!

I think I found the problem: instead of the texture - the same colour as the rendered model in the 'Render Layers' node, how do I fix this? This also happened after I started added the animation.

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Marine Biologist
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  • Try selecting your model and applying it's scale (ctrl-A). It might be the proper wood texture, but it's scaled up so big that you can't see the details. – ajwood Oct 29 '15 at 13:41
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    Is your box UV mapped? – TLousky Oct 29 '15 at 13:43
  • I did use compositing. I edited the shader nodes so there was a connection from Colour in Image Texture to Displacement in Material Output. This was supposed to add some 'depth' to the texture. By the way, here is the tutorial video. – Marine Biologist Oct 29 '15 at 13:48
  • @MarineBiologist What type of mapping coordinates are you using? It looks like you don't have any. – PGmath Oct 29 '15 at 14:11
  • @PGmath I used a material to texture it. In the 'color' section, I put 'Image Texture' and loaded up the image that I was going to use. There is a reason why are tagged my question as 'cycles'. – Marine Biologist Oct 29 '15 at 14:20
  • But, as the post I liked above describes, an image texture has to have some type of mapping coordinates that tell Cycles what parts of the texture go where. – PGmath Oct 29 '15 at 14:21
  • @TLousky I did do 'project from view (bounds)'. – Marine Biologist Oct 29 '15 at 14:46
  • OK, so now the question is whether your image texture uses this UV map. You can add a screenshot of your material node setup to your question which could help, and/or upload the blend file to http://blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com/ and add that link to your question as well. – TLousky Oct 29 '15 at 14:49

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It turns out the answer is quite simple. All I needed to do is just go to the modifiers tab, scroll down to the 'Explode' section (I used a 'Quick Explode' animation, don't even ask me why it caused such a problem) and uncheck 'Cut Edges'. Thanks for the support and ideas, though, as this wouldn't be here for people who would need it in the future without all of your support.

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You didn't UV unwrap your object. I run into this as well. Just go into Edit Mode, select everything and hit 'U' to unwrap. That should fix everything.

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