Texturing the turret

We will now create a texture for the turret using UV unwrapping and an Edge Mask:

1. Create a simple green material for the body of the turret.

The gun and turret details are left out because they are much more intricate than the turret, and they will have different material settings:

Figure 12.1 – Turret material

2. With the mesh selected in Edit Mode, select Smart UV Project in the UV Mapping menu:

Figure 12.2 – Smart UV Project

3. On the Shading screen, create a new image with an Image Texture node. Name this image UV_TEST and set Generated Type to UV Grid:

Figure 12.3 – New image

4. Plug this image into the base color to project it on the surface of the turret.

This texture shows us whether there is any distortion or stretching on the texture resulting from bad UV unwrapping. In this case, the projection is good:

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