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Hi guys,

So i'm working on a totally different project at the moment and have hit the brick wall of all brick walls!

I've developed this road in GMAX, I now want to apply a single texture to the entire of it - i've seen it done before but not been able to replicate, this tutorial shows what I want to achieve, but the method doesn't work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1k-xBCWiWE&feature=relmfu)

Any ideas please? Pretty desperate to be fair.

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Much appreciated folks.
 
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The only way I know of that you could use that texture along a road is the spline/loft method, but that wouldn't work with that, sorry man, I don't know.
 
You really would need to apply the mapping at the lofting stage.

Otherwise it is an almost impossible task, AFAIK.
 
Thanks guys.

Sadly, this wasn't made using the loft method. It's various spleans boolean'ed togeather and connected with the "Create Line" tool to make the polys.

Just had a good idea though which doesn't mean starting all over!

I could simply draw around my existing shapes with splines, and like the taxiline tutorial simply loft them, never thought of that before!
 
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You can paint your texture with the shape of the object, and edit unwrap, but problably the texture resolution never is fine, and must be accurate edition to no get distorted, a little difficult, because of the object.
 
I think you might need to start this all over. It doesn't take too much time, may be less than what you have done before.
Loft technique is quite easy to map the texture along the path. Open the plus sign on the panel Surface Parameter and look inside. There are Apply texture along the axis and repeat on the width. You need to put some numbers to make it repeat along the line but no repeat on the width. By the way, you need to rotate your texture 90 degree since the texture will match the line of loft.

Please take a look at my attached picture. It took me only ten min. to do this.
You just draw circle and lines that represent the path of the road and do the loft. It will take less time correcting UVWmap. Start it all over takes less time, believe me.

I just noticed that you have curved along the strait road and circle connection. That's tricky. I don't know either.
 
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