TEXTURE MAPPING

Oh, me!!  I am pretty badly disconnected from the texture mapping.  HOWEVER, I stumbled around and figured out how to create a non-symmetric object out of the symmetric object it once was.  I then stumbled around A WHOLE LOT MORE to get the frontal projection of a JPEG PhotoShop image to line up with the UV map in Cinema 4D.  I put a second roundel on the left wing.

The result is the Spitfire now has a left and right camouflage pattern like it "should-oughter".  The ailerons are separate entities and know nothing about the wing material/texture so I suspect I will just "body-paint" them by hand ... if I can get a good hard brush edge.  I used "frontal" projection which I believe will work for the wing and tail feathers but probably not for the fuselage.  Then again maybe I can "pre-distort" the texture map in PhotoShop so that it will do a reasonable wrap onto a frontal projection of the fuselage.  But maybe I should struggle with "unwrapping" the fuselage if for no other reason than to induce another migraine.  There are several ways and I am sure I will wind up exploring all of them.

In any case ... here is the state of the camouflage treatment at this brief instant in time.

+Dale Jackson +harley harp +Åke Jonsson