How cover Greebles with image?

Laer Carroll

I have made a spaceship from Greebles. How do I cover a surface with the NASA logo?

Richard Haseltine

Are the greebles UV mapped? If not, are you using Daz Studio and rendering with Iray?

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e

Well, one way is to go into Surfaces, select the surface corresponding to where you want the logo, go to Diffuse, and next to Base Color, on the the little rounded-corners square thingy, click the little down-pointing triangle, select Browse, navigate over to where your logo image is, and add it from there.

You could instead add it on a LIE layer if you want it to appear over the existing shader imagery, by selecting Layered Image Editor instead of Browse, then under the pane that shows the list of Layers select the square "+" button, select New Layer, and then next to Resource click the None button to change it to Browse and tehn navigate to where your logo is.  For this to work over the existing image, the logo would need to be on alpha (that is, it would need to be surrounded by see-thru).

Laer Carroll

Thanks. The Surfaces > Diffuse > Browse > folder > *.jpg did the trick. Also can use .png images.

It does take a bit of work to select an image with pixel resolution matching the size of the Greeble surface. It can't be too big or little. Or I could scale up or down the Greeble.

SimonJM

If you are using Iray have a look at Decals, you seem to be able to poition, rotate and scale those

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e

Yeah, I typically resize in Paint.net the images I need to apply as an LIE layer.  As for the Decals thing...  I had to go watch a youtube video (its linked in the support thread, iirc) but still haven't gotten a handle on it yet.

Laer Carroll

Also tried the Layered Image Editor. It gives us more control & I'll probably use that more than the other way.