Are patch images better than decals?
I discovered something very useful that others might like to know about. This is more of a tip than anything. Most of the time I can’t find any textures that match the subject I am working with, and I don’t want to have to take an hour to create one. So what you can do is use an image that has the same sort of surface, apply it as an image, and then stick it at 50% under the properties, then select the same thing again and give it a colour. The colour and texture then can mix to create an okay looking object. As an example, I had a pear that I wanted to texture and had the perfect pear texture for it, but I couldn’t seem to get it to match up and look nice as a decal, so I just put it on as an image. Not all the patches were the same size so you could see a bit of squashing and stretching, and it was obvious that it was a repeating texture. So I went under the image options and set it 50. Then I made the pear green under the colour settings. That was just enough so that the artifacts i
