[Stiglr]

I'm having a hard time understanding one of the advanced texturing features, and am wondering if someone not so spatially challenged as myself can help me out.

I have a long hose that I wish to texture with a short, repeating texture, of which a swatch is on a much larger texture. I assign the hose to reference the texture file, and then I go to the TCE to apply the texture. How do I arrange it so that I can apply the texture to repeat (say along the Z axis, up and down, if the segments of the hose's 3D shape are varied (in particular I have one very long segment that I would want the texture to appear on 5 or 6 times along that length...)

I've tried using some of the features in the menus and the plugins, such as UV Map and Plantex, and these either tile the texture in my TCE display (which is the opposite of what I want to do) or apply some other weird results. I tried playing with these, but they don't always support real time updates, so it's hard to get a grip on what they can do.

I need to understand what I need to do here.