Texturing cloth

[pspeakes]

How do you keep textures from swimming? In
the on-line manual-(Library/Cloth) they only discuss how to create
non-overlappping uvs. (even that discussion is a little sketchy). They
seem to just say cloth gets a shader like anything else. But the uvs move with
the vertices as the cloth moves, hence the problem.

[overdriven]

If it's a 3D procedural you are using, parent the ... ugh.. the name escapes me right now.. the green box that appears when you apply the texture to the cloth. Parent that to the cloth. (yeah, I suck at explaining things)
If it's a 2D texture, you can parent the 2D placement node to the cloth if it moves around. Since it's a flat texture, it should "swim".

Hope this confused explanation helps.

[pspeakes]

Thanks, I'll try it. I was actually using painted textures and file textures. Today, with a different piece of cloth the textures are not swimming.(!) This is with the default texture mapping which seems to be planar. With that it's easy to separate out the the panels in the texture editor.