Working with Textures and Materials - Mastering Blender - page 48

2D image-manipulation application such as GIMP. In this chapter, you will follow the steps to do all of these
things but with an added twist that will involve using Blender's powerful texture-baking features to reprocess
the images and remove all visible seams left from the initial mapping process.
Texturing a Locomotive Smokestack
In the next few sections, you'll focus on texturing a specific object, the smokestack from the locomotive model
shown highlighted in Figure 2-3 . The locomotive model itself is made up of several 3D objects, and the unad-
orned smokestack shown in Figure 2-4 can be found on its own in the file smokestack_no_mats.blend
on the web page for this topic: www.sybex.com/go/masteringblender2e .
Figure 2-3 The smokestack object