Lathed Cylinder Won't Map Correctly

[Michael J. Brown]

I've got a shape I lathed into a smoke stack and punched some windows out of. I box UVW mapped it (before any boolean operations were performed on it). The attach image shows the mapping issue I'm having.

 

The mapping behave properly on 60% of the object, but around here on the back side (running straight up and down this whole side) the mapping rotates 90-degrees. What's up here? Bitmap Fit does nothing at all either. Even when I switch to another type of mapping (face, planar, etc).

 

Can anybody shed some light on this?

Edited November 11, 2008 by renderhaus

[rmccoy]

Did you try using the cylinder mapping before you use the boolean feature? Maybe try that and make sure it works properly before you boolean and thing out.

 

I try to avoid using booleans like the plague. You could also try poly-modeling the punch outs instead

[Michael J. Brown]

I mapped before doing any booleans (please see post) - right after I lathed the shape.

 

Yeah, poly-modeling is something I definately need to learn. I never did get on that train. Booleans have always been second nature for me - coming from 3D AutoCAD modeling.

 

Stangest thing though. I decided to try applying another UVW map once I had everything grouped for this element, and the problem cleared right up.

 

Go figure.

[rmccoy]

Glad to hear you figured out a solution.