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Distorted planar mapping
I'm trying to create a series of posters for a shop window I'm making. I don't want to create a separate material for each of them so I've created poly planes of roughly the right dimensions for each bit of artwork and I've planar mapped each of them and arranged them in the UV Editor so they're not overlapping. I've exported a UV snapshot and created a texture in Photoshop with the artwork for each poster in the corresponding position. When I apply the texture all the images appear as I would expect, except that they all show very pronounced lens-type distortion. The closer to the edges the worse the distortion.
Has anyone got any idea what's going on here?
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and this is a render https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/qqi1.jpg/
I'm not sending you an image of the viewport as the texture is showing at all! This is another (in my opinion unrelated issue) either a bug in Maya 2011 or due to my not having a very high spec graphics card.
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are you subdividing the planes? Is so you may need to add additional edge loops to prevent this kind of distortion,
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Also, you don't need to create nearly identical shaders for each object, you could just use a switch node.
Using a Triple Switch - YouTube
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The triple switch can be used to control any given number of objects. The "triple" refers to the number of channels it handles, like xyz values or in the case of color, rgb values. For a reflectivity attribute, the single switch would be more suitable.
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