Dice texture each side?

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Hi,

i have a basic cube and I am trying to make a dice from it…

How can I make each side or “face” of this cube show a different texture to make it into a dice?

Right now it just repeats the square texture onto every side…

Edit: replaced basic square with correct word CUBE.

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you would not be able to do this with a cube inside unity as the uv for each side is on top of each other, you would need to move the uv into a different position.

best advice i can give is to download blender (its free) watch a couple tutorials on it, make a simple cube maybe round a few edges of to get the nice dice look, then unwrap the uv into a sort of flat packed box shape make a texture and import back to unity.

infact this is so simple to do if you want me to ill make you a simple dice object

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“Basic square”? You mean cube, I guess. You can’t with the Unity Cube primitive.

You could use 6 planes (but that’s overkill, since each Unity Plane already has 200 triangles…) and apply 6 different materials.

Your options are to

  • model a simple plane, import that, copy 6 times, make a cube from it using transformations, apply 6 different materials to it.
  • model a cube with the 6 sides as separate objects and with 0/1 UV mapping, import that, again 6 different materials
  • model a cube, and texture it using a texture atlas, so you only have one material and one texture (but different UV mappings for each side). This is the performance optimized variant.
  • model a cube, and also texture it in the modeling system to look like a die. This should have the same performance.
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Old question, but here is a solution that does not involve a modeling program using Unity’s built-in cube:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/542787/change-texture-of-cube-sides.html