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Creating a rope

  • Creating a Line Spline
  • Make Line visible in veiwport (setting checked under line)
  • Apply Unwrap UVW modifier to line spline
  • Under Unwrap UVW, select polygon
  • select UV Editor
  • select both end face and start face from scene
  • right-click in UVW Unwrap editor window and select "break"
  • select freeform at the top of UVW Unwrap editor to move both start and end face away from box
  • At the top of UVW editor select, "relax"
  • select "start relax" and "stop relax" when it reaches about 3/4 the way to the center of the box
  • Select "reshape elements"
  • Assign a bitmap to the line spline in the Slate Material Editor
  • Open UVW editor again change the position of the projection as you'd like

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