FS2004 Line + Loft = Taxiway Lines. How to texture them?

[wideloadwhitford]

I made my taxiway lines a while back but I think I might want to make them a bit more weathered.

Here is my situation. When I apply the taxiway line texture to my Loft, it becomes stretched. When I apply UVW Mapping it seems to get that HD feel BUT my textures are messed up. They are cut a certain way. When I apply an UnWrap UVW it shows this..........

With UVW Mapping.

My taxiway line does have a curve to it. Is there a way to make the texture "follow" the loft instead of making a texture slice?

Here is what it looks like in the sim.

And my texture, with an alpha channel.

Thanks, Ryan.

 

[hcornea]

Ensure that you get the loft to create the UVW map. That way it is applied per section.

There is acheckbox in the rollout to do this.

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Ensure that you get the loft to create the UVW map. That way it is applied per section.

There is acheckbox in the rollout to do this.

It seems to do exactly that. It creates its own UVW Map, but the texture is stretched out and looks terrible.

 

[jtanabodee]

I think I found solution for this.
You nee to check texture applied to loft and normalized that. The line you created will be map with texture
After you done this, unwrap it and stech the map until you satisfy with the texture. Please take a look at the attachment.

 

[hcornea]

It seems to do exactly that. It creates its own UVW Map, but the texture is stretched out and looks terrible.

Oh deary me!

You found the checkbox but didn't look at the spaces beneath it?

(length repeat and width repeat). These function as you would expect. They repeat the texture by the specified number of times ... along the length of your loft.

If you need to adjust them after mapping you use the non-uniform-scale-UVW tool (in the unwrap UVW) to stretch the UVW's.

Normalise helps smooth out the mapping between segments (it will be obvious once you unwrap what the effect of this is)

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Oh my, you guys fixed my problem. I made the Length quantity higher until it looked good. Man you guys are awesome!

Thanks, Ryan

 

[jtanabodee]

Oh deary me!

You found the checkbox but didn't look at the spaces beneath it?

(length repeat and width repeat). These function as you would expect. They repeat the texture by the specified number of times ... along the length of your loft.

If you need to adjust them after mapping you use the non-uniform-scale-UVW tool (in the unwrap UVW) to stretch the UVW's.

Normalise helps smooth out the mapping between segments (it will be obvious once you unwrap what the effect of this is)

Exactly, hcornea. I should have looked at that!
But sometimes I add all the line texture in one large sheet of texture ( white line, yellow line, double yellow line) to make less draw call. I need to unwrap it a bit and adjust the width of the mapping to match each line texture.

 

[hcornea]

I usually map to the width, then scale the UVW's down to the correct size, drag it across to the line you want.

Then vertically scale the UVW's until the paint looks like I want it to.

Compressed textures around corners look better IMO