Wrap a texture around Cylinder

[wolfcheck]

How do I go about wrapping a texture around a cylinder? I can't make heads or tails of the UV mapper. Help?

 

[frank beckmann]

You don´t need to; the cylinder has already UVs by default.

Cheers
Frank

 

[wolfcheck]

Then how come it doesn't wrap around it properly? Seems it just smears around. I'm trying to wrap a leather texture around a dagger handle and the texture doesn't show, it's just a green smear. Thoughts?

 

[frank beckmann]

Can we have a screenshot from handle+UVs then please?
You can actually check the alignment by hitting the edit-button at the image loader while in UV-editor.

Cheers
Frank

 

[wolfcheck]

Yeah. But I'm at work now. Will do it when I get home in five hours.

 

[wolfcheck]

Here's what it's doing. I can't get the texture to wrap horizontally up and down the long side.

 

[frank beckmann]

I´m still missing a screenshot of the UV map - pretty please.
(The render looks gorgeous so far. )

Cheers
Frank

 

[wolfcheck]

A screenshot of the UV map. Okay, I'll play ignorant . . . how do I go about that?

 

[frank beckmann]

Well - we have "Layouts" and "Tabs":

 

[wolfcheck]

Wow. Mine looks way different from yours!

 

[frank beckmann]

Uugh - where did this thing came from? I ask because it´s triangulated.
You seem pretty confident with splines. I´d use a spline with the lathe-creator because you´ll receive perfect UVs by default:

But the UV-mapper in cylindrical projection should do it as well.

Cheers
Frank

 

[wolfcheck]

Okay, I got it. Just have to remodel it with a spline. I tried that and it works! Thanks.