UV Projection

Please use the UV Context Projection node instead, it offers more features and is much more powerful.

Table Of Contents

Introduction

This node is useful for quick 3D projections of 2D textures onto objects with customizable placement.

Connect your texture or select a color here.


Source texture	Projection result

This section controls the type of 3D projection and the transform parameters of said projection.

This option sets the projection style from the following types:

If you need to planar project a texture on each axis please see the Tri Planar node instead.


Projection Type: Planar Coord Space: World	Spherical	Cylindrical	Ball	Cubic

Projection Type: Planar Coord Space: Object	Spherical	Cylindrical	Ball	Cubic

This sets the projection coordinate space type. The options are as follows:

World - uses the world-space coordinates that are being shaded. This option will result in texture projection 'swimming' if the object moves or is instanced.
Object - uses the object-space coordinates that are being shaded. This option undoes the world transform to lock the coordinates to the local object space, resulting in no texture projection swimming when the object moves or is instanced.
Reference - uses the object reference pose coordinates, if available. This option results in no texture projection swimming when the object moves, is instanced or is deformed.


Coord Space: World	Object	Reference

Create a Texture Reference Object in Maya to get Reference mode to work.

Changes the U angle projection value for cylindrical and spherical projection types.


U Angle: 45	180 (default)	360

Changes the V angle projection value for cylindrical and spherical projection types.


V Angle: 45	90 (default)	180

This section adjusts the 3D transform values of the projection in world or object space.

Sets the 3D scale of the projection.


Scale X, Y, Z: 1, 1, 1	3, 1, 1	1, 3, 1	1, 1, 3

Sets the 3D rotation of the projection.


Rotate X, Y, Z: 0, 0, 0	45, 0 , 0	0, 45, 0	0, 0, 45

Sets the 3D translation of the projection.


Scale X, Y, Z: 0, 0, 0	0.5, 0, 0	0, 0.5, 0	0, 0, 0.5

This section adjusts the transform values of the 2D texture.

Sets the 2D scale of the texture.


Scale U, V: 1, 1	3, 1	1, 3

Sets the 2D translation of the texture.


Offset U, V: 0, 0	0.1, 0	0, 0.1

Sets the 2D rotation of the texture.


Rotate: 0	45	90