printing texture on tabs?

[berndhalbherr]

Hello, great plugin! Is there any way to fill the taps with the overlapping texture?

[addam]

It is partially possible. Not exactly to fill with the texture, but at least to extend the texture. The color will be correct but the texture will be stripes smudged outwards.

A little modification in code is necessary. If you find where the extension is installed on your disk, look for line
bpy.ops.object.bake(type=bake_type, margin=1, use_selected_to_active=sta, cage_extrusion=100, use_clear=False)
(perhaps in unfolder.py) and just increase the margin value to quite any number:
bpy.ops.object.bake(type=bake_type, margin=20, use_selected_to_active=sta, cage_extrusion=100, use_clear=False)

During export, you then need to open the section Colors and Style, and modify Tabs Fill color setting Alpha to 0 (transparent). Then, the texture will extend to the tabs.

Is that good for your purpose? I could add the Margin to the export settings.

[berndhalbherr]

Thank you for your reply. I wanted to use it for making sculptures with polystyrene bodies, where I can stick textures onto the material. However, it is difficult to control the overlap precisely. It is most efficient when the same texture appears on the edges, so that small errors are compensated for quite effectively. But that doesn't work with the extension of the edges. I've thought about that too^^. In fact, extending the edges by ‘baking’ would help anyone who wants to avoid problems with gaps in the texture when gluing, so some people would probably appreciate that. In my case, however, it is not that helpful. I think I need to extend the edges by adding areas in edit mode, but that is a lot of work... Anyway, thank you, the plugin is great and I recommend it to my students who are interested in building paper models. Best regards Bernd Halbherr Translated with DeepL.com<https://www.deepl.com/?utm_campaign=product&utm_source=web_translator&utm_medium=web&utm_content=copy_free_translation> (free version)

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________________________________ Von: Addam Dominec ***@***.***> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2025 17:58 Bis: addam/Export-Paper-Model-from-Blender ***@***.***> Cc: berndthomas ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Betreff: Re: [addam/Export-Paper-Model-from-Blender] printing texture on tabs? (Issue #107) [https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/278643?s=20&v=4]addam left a comment (addam/Export-Paper-Model-from-Blender#107)<#107 (comment)> It is partially possible. Not exactly to fill with the texture, but at least to extend the texture. The color will be correct but the texture will be stripes smudged outwards. A little modification in code is necessary. If you find where the extension is installed on your disk, look for line bpy.ops.object.bake(type=bake_type, margin=1, use_selected_to_active=sta, cage_extrusion=100, use_clear=False) (perhaps in unfolder.py) and just increase the margin value to quite any number: bpy.ops.object.bake(type=bake_type, margin=20, use_selected_to_active=sta, cage_extrusion=100, use_clear=False) During export, you then need to open the section Colors and Style, and modify Tabs Fill color setting Alpha to 0 (transparent). Then, the texture will extend to the tabs. Is that good for your purpose? I could add the Margin to the export settings. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#107 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFACHPQFS4F7OGDVVLBLL2T4BEWZ7AVCNFSM6AAAAACOOHSUUWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTMNBQHEYDSNRTG4>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[addam]

I see. That does make much sense but it won't be easy to implement.

There is one design decision to be made: where to take the texture from. I believe the tab should copy the texture of the place where it will be sticked. In the following example, it will be blue (and texture copied from the area marked with yellow outline). Do you expect it like that, or would you prefer it to be red?

[berndhalbherr]

Wow, thank you very much for your commitment. I will survive without the option, but my experience as a sculptor tells me that it will significantly improve your plugin ^^. Whenever that happens, many people will be delighted. the sample is correct: the blue field should be repeated on the label of the red side, if there are complex textures or uvmappings like images or sperical panos then the models can be glued seamlessly pretty easily, good luck, and thank you for all you efforts! Bernd

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[penguin3355]

Just to add on I would really like it if this feature was added! For example, this was made with a template made from your extension (really nice btw) but because my overlap wasn't perfect, there are white lines between seams.