One prim, two textures, possible?

[SweetLadyMell]

Hi all,

The title basicaly says it all...I'm having my hand at building a house and would like the walls outside to have a different texture than the one inside (brick/wall paper for example) can this be done? Or, do I need to use an other trick?

Thanks

=^_^=

Mell

xxx

[Dora Gustafson]

Sure. a prim can have as many textures as it has faces, a cube prim has 6 faces so it can have 6 textures

It is simple to texture a face too, you just drag the texture from your inventory onto the face

:smileysurprised::smileyvery-happy:

The full story about prim faces

 

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

You can put a different texture on each side of a prim. You can either just drag a texture from your inventory onto the prim side or, to have more control, edit the prim, go to the Texture tab. Select side in the options at the top. Then click on the side of the prim you want to texture. After that you can click on the texture box to pick a texture from your inventory (or drag it to the box)

Then you can mess with the settings to change the size and position of the texture on that side of the prim.

Good luck with your build

[SweetLadyMell]

Yay!

That would reduce the calculated prims to about half, woohoo!

I better get into the Gimp to make my textures

Thanks a million

Mell

xxx

[Madelaine McMasters]

If you hollow a prim, the inside part is considered as an additional face. Since a solid cube has six faces, a hollow cube has seven.

[SweetLadyMell]

Hey, there's a good detail, interesting;;;.

I tried the suggestion, they work! Now...the drawings, of what goes where

Mell

xxx

 

[Bobbie Faulds]

Actually, a hollow cube would have 5 faces since by hollowing, you've eliminated 2 sides of the cube...just saying.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Bobbie Faulds wrote:

Actually, a hollow cube would have 5 faces since by hollowing, you've eliminated 2 sides of the cube...just saying.

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Here's a quick demo to show that hollowing a prim adds one face. I made a cube, hollowed it, then tapered it so you could see five sides and the inside at the same time, then turned a copy to show the bottom....

I count seven colors.

The interior rectangular cutout counts as only one face (as would a trangular or circular cutout) and so can have only one color and one applied texture. But, clever use of textures, offset and repeat can make good use of that one interior face.

[Rolig Loon]

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Bobbie Faulds wrote:

Actually, a hollow cube would have 5 faces since by hollowing, you've eliminated 2 sides of the cube...just saying.

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Well, not quite.  You can't create a hollow that's more than 95% of the cube's volume, so the walls of your hollowed cube still have some thickness.  Faces 0 and 5 are still there at the top and bottom ends, just reduced to the shape of a skinny picture frame (which you can texture to make a skinny picture frame if you want to). 

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

Hmmm, the joy of a prim.

if you hollow and then Path Cut you add 2 more sides making 9