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Texture placement vs. label mapping
By default, the Texture Placement tool is set for Label Mapping, which lets you stretch, shrink, move, and rotate the texture as if it were a label. You can change set the tool for Surface Placement, which lets you stretch, shrink, move, and rotate the texture as if it were wallpaper.
In both cases, wrap U and wrap V control the tiling of the texture in horizontal and vertical directions (based on the UV coordinates on the object).
To change the Texture Placement Tool,
double-click the Texture Placement Tool icon
in the toolbar, or select
Texturing > NURBS Texture Placement Tool > 
.
When you drag the manipulator handles, the attribute settings for Repeat UV, Offset, and Rotate UVchange in the place2dTexture’s Attribute Editor. This lets you stretch, shrink, move, and rotate the texture as if it were wallpaper.
When you drag the manipulator handles, the attribute settings for Offset, Translate Frame, and Rotate Framechange in the place2dTexture’s Attribute Editor. This lets you stretch, shrink, move, and rotate the texture as if it were a label.
