Triplanar Texture Projection aka Box UV

Feature Request
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Hi everyone!

I would love to see a triplanar or box projection for textures. I’m working for over 10 years as a 3d artist and until this day: I hate doing uvs.

Today my department relies heavily on procedural texturing which is more than enough for our needs.

For my privat work in blender I love the none destructive workflow of setting up a material with textures or procedural generated content, and then continue to work on the mesh.

Nomad sculpt so far has the ability to display textures which was such a great step forward for me. The UV generation is robust and fast.
However having a projection system like in blender, with a blur slider to smooth the overlapping textures, this would be awesome!

I know nomad sculpt is a sculpting tool. But it already proofed that I can do art, from blockout to render in one single mighty app. Any chance for me that you spend a little bit time on the UV part?

Thanks and thanks for this awesome app! You are doing a great great job on this man!

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Unfortunately, I don’t know this Triplanar thing, but you can still easily project textures with Nomad… Do you mean something special?

There are also tricks for the UV.

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Hi Holger!

Jeah it is actually kinda special but very useful.

Imagine a texture being projected by a projector from all 3 axis, back facing included.
The overlapping parts can be blended via a falloff slider.

This allows an object to have a texture without setting up a up.

It is more commonly used for procedural or tileable textures. Metall, Sand, plastic etc.

Your Cornflakes would be done by traditional UVs😉

The biggest benefit is, it is none destructive. You could still sculpt without manually setting up uvs

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Ah, I found a video about it. Unfortunately, I think you will have to wait a long time for this function… Of course, it would be practical…Let’s wait…:wink:

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