PackTextures

The PackTextures command controls how textures are displayed on an object.

Packed texture space will display a portion of the entire image texture used in a material on each surface in a polysurface.

Think of a box-shaped polysurface with a checker texture applied to the color channel of its material. Each of the six faces will display a separate portion of the checker texture if the texture space is packed. This is the default setting for polysurfaces in Rhino.

Note

• Extrusion objects will not use packed or unpacked texture space and are a special case for both render meshes and texture mapping.
• Texture packing does not have visible effect on objects with custom mapping.

The UnpackTextures command unpacks the textures of selected polysurfaces.

UnpackTextures will display the entire image texture used in the material on each surface in a polysurface. In the box‑shaped polysurface example, each of the six faces would display the checker image texture fully.

See also

Use materials and textures