   special generation of texture coordinates
  Hello,i'm stuck for a few days now, with a problem I currently have with a project. right now, this forum is the last hope. maybe there is somenbody here which can give me a hint how can i solve my problem...3d garment models are generated out of two flat 2d front and back bitmaps. actually two simple flat meshes are generated out of the bitmaps and merged together at the sides and then get draped to a model.the problem I have is a special case in generation of texture coordinates. right now I generate the texture coordinates 1:1 to the bitmap. which means that the vertex at position x=150,y=100 has the texture coordinate u=x/w, v=y/h, wereas w and h are the width and the height of the bitmap. so we get the texture coordinates in a range of 0.0 to 1.0, nothing special so far.now we want to add extra texture area at the sides of the garment optionally, allowing the user to add additional stuff like stripes and lines. currently I absolutely have no clue how I can realize this.The following links shows an image where this additional area is shown in red, additionally to the actual geometry of the garment which is colored white ( www.revolution3d.net/temp2/short_ex.JPG)First I tried to simply multiply my texture coodinates (only the x coordinate to have only the horizontal area affected) with a factor by 1.1f i.e., but this is dirstoring and producing artifacts, mostly at edges where two sides meet together. the following image show a situation where this would happens ( www.revolution3d.net/temp2/short_ex2.JPG )Adding additional geometry at the sides is not an alternative because its not hard to implement into the existing system.I do have the apprehension there could be a very simple way of doing this but it simply don't get it? is there somebody of you which does have a solution for this, I'm really stuck at the moment and happy about every small idea or hint...regards,Simon[Edited by - leon24x on August 11, 2006 4:11:25 AM]
  why not render another layer of geometry over the top, but use a different texture?   ;  Yes, I also thought about using another layer, either geometrical or mutli-texturing. however I need to stay with my 1-layer-geometry. the garment mesh generated by my application has to be compatible with an standard 3d modelling application later on and has to be a solid mesh with no overlapping or layers so I can't do this.thank you very much for your idea, anyway...   