Surfaces or UVs or something...

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A while ago, now, someone ( oops, cant rememebr who now )
kindly provided me this code to simulate a cylinder 'unwrapping' - flattening out into a rectangle.

It works fine, but now I've properly integrated it into where it needs to go, I have a problem, that I am unable to add a texture.

(I guess I might need to use brushes or what-not, but all this surfaces stuff goes over my head!)

I only need a single texture, as it should look like, say, a rolled up picture being opened.

If anyone can help with how to set tyhe UVs or whatever I need to do to texture this, Id be really, really grateful!!

Graphics3D 640,480,16,1
Global CAMERA = CreateCamera()
CameraRange CAMERA,0.001,10
WireFrame 0

PositionEntity CAMERA, 0,0,-5

Const Radius# = 1.0

FLAT = MESHflat( Radius * Pi ,2,Radius , 16 ) : HideEntity FLAT
TUBE = MESHtube( Radius,2,Radius , 16 ) : HideEntity TUBE

EntityTexture Tube,Tubtext
VISIBLE = MESHflat( 1,1,1 , 16 )

EntityTexture FLAT,Flattext
Dir# = 1.0 : TimeStep# = 0.0

While Not KeyDown(1)

	TimeStep = TimeStep + .01 * Dir
	If TimeStep >= 1.0 Dir = - 1
	If TimeStep <= 0.0 Dir = 1.0 

	MESHmorph( VISIBLE , TUBE, FLAT , TimeStep )

	RenderWorld()
	Flip

Wend

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Function MESHmorph( Source , Initial , Final , T# )

	ss = GetSurface( Source , 1 )
	is = GetSurface( Initial , 1 )
	fs = GetSurface( Final , 1 )
	
	For v = 0 To CountVertices( ss ) - 1
	
		Nx# = VertexX( is, v ) + ( VertexX( fs , v ) - VertexX( is , v ) ) * T
		Ny# = VertexY( is, v ) + ( VertexY( fs , v ) - VertexY( is , v ) ) * T
		Nz# = VertexZ( is, v ) + ( VertexZ( fs , v ) - VertexZ( is , v ) ) * T
		VertexCoords ss, v , Nx, Ny, Nz
		
	Next
	
End Function

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Function MESHflat( Sx#, Sy#, Sz#, Segs = 8 )

	Mesh = CreateMesh()
	s = CreateSurface( Mesh )

	For l = 0 To Segs - 1
		a0# = - Sx + 2.0 * Sx * Float( l ) / Float( Segs )  
		a1# = - Sx + 2.0 * Sx * Float ( l + 1 ) / Float( Segs )
		v0 = AddVertex( s , a0 , Sy, Sz )
		v1 = AddVertex( s , a1 , Sy, Sz )
		v2 = AddVertex( s , a1 , -Sy, Sz )
		v3 = AddVertex( s , a0, -Sy, Sz )
		AddTriangle s, v0, v1, v2
		AddTriangle s, v2, v3, v0
	Next
	
	Return Mesh
		
End Function

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Function MESHtube( Sx#, Sy#, Sz# , Segs = 8 )

	Mesh = CreateMesh()
	s = CreateSurface( Mesh )

	For l = 0 To Segs - 1
		a0# = 90.0 + l * 360.0 / Float( Segs )	;+90 important so starts at rear
		a1# = 90.0 + ( l + 1 ) * 360.0 / Float( Segs )
		v0 = AddVertex( s , Sx * Cos( a0 ) , Sy , Sz * Sin( a0 ) )
		v1 = AddVertex( s , Sx * Cos( a1 ) , Sy , Sz * Sin( a1 ) )
		v2 = AddVertex( s , Sx * Cos( a1 ) , -Sy , Sz * Sin( a1 ) )
		v3 = AddVertex( s , Sx * Cos( a0 ) , -Sy , Sz * Sin( a0 ) )
		AddTriangle s, v0, v1, v2
		AddTriangle s, v2, v3, v0
	Next
	
	Return Mesh
End Function