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Manipulating materials on objects

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Manipulating materials on objects

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- [Instructor] Let's wrap our heads around how materials are projected onto objects. If you imagine the texture to be like a sheet of paper, when you wrap the paper around the object, this is the result of the UV coordinates. The UV coordinates tell the material how to be mapped around the object. Now, in some cases, just dropping a material onto an object will be completely fine, and you can see that the crate looks just right with this kind of object, but if we drop it onto something like a sphere, then because of the way the UVs are on this sphere, it's not really suited for this kind of object. So let's just remove this, and we'll drop on the UV Grid material, and just zoom in here, and you can see how stretched out these numbers are, whereas on our flat surfaces, they are not distorted, and they look correct. So if we turn off Tile and just make the length 1%, so we've just got this sliver here on the sphere, and then if we increase this value, you can see how that material is…

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