UV Mapping - by vertex or face? Weird banding

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Hi, I have looked around quite a bit and understand the the [0..1] range for UV maps. However, I have read in different places the number of UVs to be assigned to a mesh - in some cases, it seems to be by the number of vertices, in other cases by the number of faces * 3 (in the case of shared vertices).

I ask because I've tried the following to UV map a sphere (I'd like it to look as it it does in the preview window on the lower right) using this wikipedia code:

             for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Count; i++) {
                 Vector3 dir = Vector3.Normalize(Vector3.zero - vertices[i]);
                 uvs.Add(new Vector2((0.5f + Mathf.Atan2(dir.z, dir.x)) / (2 * Mathf.PI), (0.5f - Mathf.ASin(dir.y)) / (Mathf.PI)));
             }

When I set the mesh UVs to be that list I create, that shows:

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However, if I try to do it by face (adding a uv record for each vertex in each face, even if shared) I don't get anything at all. Thoughts?

Answer 1

Answer by Bunny83 · Sep 18, 2013 at 06:09 AM

I can't test it, but I would say this:

     (0.5f + Mathf.Atan2(dir.z, dir.x)) / (2 * Mathf.PI)

Should be:

     (0.5f + Mathf.Atan2(dir.z, dir.x) / (2 * Mathf.PI))

You also divide the 0.5 by 2PI which doesn't make much sense.

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The same for the second value. Take another look at the wiki formula

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Answer by DarkPixel · Oct 06, 2013 at 02:47 PM

Here's a good article that explain the possible problems (and how to solve them) with sphere UVs

Sphere Mesh Generation

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