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[laylay]

I have a bunch of cylinders attached to each other (like a long tube) I want to be able to texture it without any stretching, just a nice repeating texture going along it. I know how to wrap around it but not along it. The problem is that each cylinder segment of the tube aren't the same size so I can't just increase the v coord by 1 each time. How can this be calculated?

[Ashaman73]

Here's some pseudo code:

v_texture_coord = 0
scale = 1.0
for i=1...n do
  cylinder = cylinder_array[i]
  cylinder.start_v = v_texture_coord
 
  v_texture_coord = v_texture_coord + cylinder.length * scale
  cylinder.end_v =  v_texture_coord
end

[laylay]

Thanks. So pretty much I can just increase along the length of the segment? What are the start and end v coords for?


It seems to work anyway but I'm having a problem with wrapping around the pipe that I didn't notice. The last face on the cylinder segment is messed up. This is how I'm calculating it.

[source lang="cpp"] // loop through each point on the radius for (unsigned int i = 0; i < m_points; ++i) { // sin and cos displace the vertex in a radius float x = cos(Math::DegreesToRadians(degrees)) * m_radius; float y = sin(Math::DegreesToRadians(degrees)) * m_radius; // offset the vertex up and right to orientate it Vector3f point = position; point += right * x; point += up * y; // create the vertex Vertex vertex; vertex.position = point; vertex.normal = (point - position).Normalise(); vertex.texCoord = Vector2f((float)i / ((float)m_points - 1.0f), ycoord); m_vertices.push_back(vertex); // keep going around the radius degrees += 360.0f / (float)m_points - 1; }[/source]

What I think is happening is that the 0th vertex on the ring has a u texcoord of 0 but the last one is 1, that's going to cause problems I think. How should I handle it?

I have a feeling I'll have to have a duplicate vertex at the 0th position because it needs to be 0 for the first face but 1 for the last face. Kind of sucks.

Edited by laylay, 13 November 2012 - 12:05 AM.

[Brother Bob]

If you want the cylinder to have N points around, then you need N+1 vertices since the first and the last two vertices have different texture coordinates even though they have the same position. In your code, as far as I can see all you need to do it change the loop exit condition from < to <=.

[laylay]

Yeah I thought so, thanks for clarifying that though. There was a bit more work involved with getting it to work but it's wrapping around perfectly now.