You solve that by UV mapping. Either in the texture or on the model or by Unwrapping the faces.

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yeah, you're going to need to select the handle on the polygon subobject level and apply a UVW map modifier, set it to use cylindrical mapping and hit the fit button. you might need to change the orientation of the mapping by hitting one of the x,y,z radio buttons or rotating the uvw map manually by going to the modifiers subobject level in the modifier stack.

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I tried the UV Mapping, it looks a bit better now but now I have a new problem.
The edges of my picture are really visible, any way to solve this?

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Use the offset filter in photoshop and then the clone stamp or heal brush to blend the seams.

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Or you can use procedural textures, eg noise maps etc.

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It's getting there.

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I made a shield now to complete the set with the sword, pretty pleased with it.
I'm thinking of making an interior now to place all the weapons in.
But I have no idea of how to start, any tips?

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Hey Valkyrion ? spreek je nederlands ?

Maybe start thinking of what kind of interior you would like these items to see in. Maybe a wooden midieval shed, or a guard tower..or maybe even a museum for midieval weapon technology. Sketching is always good to do.

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Ja ik spreek Nederlands.

I was thinking of placing it in a medieval weapons room (arsenal?)

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Good idea. You've already got a good start for that.

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Yeah, from the looks of the map your using, you could get that look from procedural textures.

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Chris

It may be a stupid question, but what are procedural textures?
Are it textures themselves or is it a way of texturing?
I can't really seem to find it.

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here's nice wiki paga on procedural textures.
[Link to en.wikipedia.org]

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check that wiki but yeah, basically in max its all the maps like noise, cellular, smoke, tiles etc.. that are generated procedurally.

Things to be aware of are that 2d maps such as bitmaps or 2d procedural maps like tiles need uv coordinates to be placed correctly.
3d procedural maps like noise and cellular don't need uv coordinates but if you distort the mesh (such as with a character mesh)
the map will "swim" across the surface. you can get away with using 3d maps and having no uvs when the object doesnt deform. in the case of a characters arm bending or a facial morph the map will not stick, but an object that keeps its shape is fine.

The great thing about procedurals are that they don't have any resolution, you can get very fine details without using large maps and they always tile seamlessly.


(you can make 3d maps use the mapping coordinates and stick to you're meshes by setting them to explicit map channel)

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