How To Force Procedural Textures To Use UV Mapping? Full HD video tutorial with subs

[Sensei]

Hi!

"How To Force Procedural Textures To Use UV Mapping?"

In this video tutorial, I am showing how to use e.g. Checkboard, Dots, Grid2D procedural textures, with UV mapping:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6mF2nE204

Majority of 3d textures were not designed to work with UV mapping, and they often look terrible on curved object (like sphere).
I presented how badly it looks in the case of Checkboard and Dots, which are not usable with any organic object.

Thanks to Replace Spot node, which is part of TrueArt's Node Library 2020, which you can get from:
http://nodelibrary.trueart.eu
3D procedural textures can be UV projected, animated and easily nicely distorted.

UV mapped and animated checkboard procedural texture:


UV mapped and animated dots procedural texture:


Best Regards!

[Sensei]

On this example dots have variable diameter depending on U value in UV map:
We can easily imagine using Weight map instead to tell renderer were we want bigger or smaller dots.


Because it is all procedural texture, artist could e.g. blend two or more Weight Maps in time (using Gradient with exposed keys and positions, and Input taken from Time).
It other words animated diameters of dots on curved surface.

[lardbros]

This is great, thanks Sensei.

I've always used the 'Textured Filter' hack thing in LW to achieve the same, but this is way nicer!

Do I get this with my purchase of the node pack?

[gerry_g]

is Replace Spot 32bit or 64bitor more to the point is it Mac friendly

[Sensei]

is Replace Spot 32bit or 64bitor more to the point is it Mac friendly

There is no 32 bit LightWave >= 2018..

The last 32 bit LW is 2015.3.

[gerry_g]

sorry but I had noticed some of your available plugins were still 32bit and this particular one gave no info either way, wasn't being snarky, thanks for clarification

[Sensei]

sorry but I had noticed some of your available plugins were still 32bit and this particular one gave no info either way, wasn't being snarky, thanks for clarification

I can make you special version of Replace Spot which will work with LW v11.x or LW 2015.x if you want...

[dpont]

Replace Spot node is present in Lightwave since 2008,
in DP Filter module, but available for surfacing too,
x32 & x64, also for 2018 with improvements for blending texture… etc

Denis.