How to flatten a curved high-poly mesh for projection rendering

loggie24

Hi.

I have a scanned tree trunk that i would like turned into a tileable texture. The problem is that since it's curved i can't properly set up projection rendering and i can't figure out how to or if it's possible to flatten it out. Any tips?

Thanks.

Eric Chadwick

Why not use a cylinder as your projection target? That tiles on U. Tiling on V will require some Photoshoppery.

A torus tiles on both axes, but I don't see how you'll get the scan warped into a seamless donut.