Fading mesh color on edges

[WhoAteDaCake]

I have a mesh, that I would like to colour in a way, that the colour fades out near the edges.

The sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/zw63povrz4

My current approach uses canvas, to first draw the color texture and then drawing an opacity layer that will fade the colour out.

Expected result: https://i.imgur.com/YUCicAf.png

My questions:

1. Is there an easier method to do this.
2. In my current approach
   1. The texture does not fit on the mesh, which means the mesh does not show any fading out, as can be seen in canvas on the side.
   2. How can that be fixed?

 

 

[WhoAteDaCake]

Turns out the issue was me not exporting UV maps from blender.

[JohnK]

Hi @WhoAteDaCake well done for finding the answer. Please note that for future questions I suggest you join the new forum. As more and more people have already changed you might find that getting an answer on this one takes longer and longer☺