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Finally figured out how to get the colored_marking tile to reverse, but...

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I've been trying to figure out painless ways to do ground markings for ages. The colored_marking tile has been tormenting me for ages as it was always mirrored.

I turns out if you set it as a polygon surface you can fold the polygon in on itself and it reverses to the correct way around, or it may start off correct.

However the text is much smaller than the apron version and it's proving impossible to trim to individual letters. For some reason moving one point of the polygon, all the others stay fixed, causes the tile to scroll until your target is gone again.

Am I missing an obvious trick here or is this simply a fluke it's not really designed for?
 

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We have done this via blender.
So create a plate, make a UV map on it, safe it and import the objekt in the sim.

Problem we have: I cant place them exactly on the ground, otherwise its flickering all the time. And we cant do it completely in blender, becauce we have no flat terain.
 
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titan2002 said:
So create a plate, make a UV map on it, safe it and import the objekt in the sim.
Click to expand...
You can then use it as a projected mesh, with it's options.

Projected mesh over colored gravel apron:

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I understand there may be issues with the clarity of the ProjectedMesh. If you use a planar scenery object, place it with no shadow and raise 0.01 above the surface.
 
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Worked for us, but on small textures, it decrese the quality a lot.
I think the only way is, to make the basic texture with more pixel?
 
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Thanks to Rhumbaflappy and Titan2002 for this additional information, I tested it and I have good results
 
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