I'm currently implementing a mesh extrusion algorithm for plane shapes, let's assume for a rectangle.
When I extrude this rectangle I create four new sides (resulting in 8 new triangles) and a new bottom for the 3d shape.
This works fine when I duplicate all vertices so that my final cube has 24 of them. But I'd like to avoid these extra vertices now so that I have only 8 vertices. Unfortunately, in this case I do not know how to calculate the UV coordinates and I keep getting wrong results as shown in the image below.
The correct result would look like this (with duplicated faces):
My first question is: Is it possible to generate a good uv map with just 8 vertices (and hence 8 uv coordinates) for a cube?
Second is: How? :)
Thanks for your help.
