Giving a Single Mesh Object Two Different Faces

[Roderic Ravenhurst]

Hi, folks, just a quick question!

I made this pant leg in Blender https://gyazo.com/6663b00ba08da77a0ed060187fd7bfdf

I'm wondering if it is possible to create a single mesh object with two different faces so that it can be textured differently on either side?

[arabellajones]

Short Answer: Yes

The jargon and methods vary a bit with the modelling program but you can set several materials with their own UV mapping. Each material is what is called a "face" in the SL editor. The UV mapping is the 2D coordinates of the vertices of the 3D object. This is an example of a UV map; each section could be a distinct material/face, and the UV coordinates re-scaled to each fill the full range: they would overlap but each could use its own texture without wasting space.

This is a tee shirt, front and back panels and two sleeves. There's a few things wrong with that UV mapping, a doubling over at the bottom edge, and I should have set horizontal edges in the mesh to be horizontal in the UV map.