THIS DAMN UNWRAPPING!

[pusianka]

 

 

Ok this is the checker pattern before I pack the UVs, and that's after:

 

 

THREE QUESTIONS!

 

1. Is the checker, after packing, good?

2. Is it different from the upper one besides the size.

3. How much the checker will afect my texture.

 

And can anyone give me tips on Unwrapping because its the obstacle I'm trying to jump for quite some time. I'm gettin nerves about it.

 

Th4n& you in 40v4nce 6or 411 your he1p x)

[PPoe]

http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_02.html

 

Havent time to check this one, but Ith seems to be a good tutorial.. Ive got this link in my to take a look list for a loong time, maybe it will help you. Ive got also big problems with understanding unwrap and texture creating proces..

[_Atti_]

1. Not sure,it might work well, depend on texture.. it should be packed so you can paint it easily and avoid texture seams.

2. Yes, it takes up different Uv space which means you have to paint textures elsewhere on your map..

3. Much like 2. that wide border is what will be on your painted map, The first one goes across that border and that means your textures will repeat.It is also not the same scale.

 

I advise you make a simple dice, make a quick texture in paint with the six numbers on it, and see how it all behaves on your model with various UVs.

 

Btw:If you're making this for Darkmod: You dont need to unwrap the high-poly model. Only the low-poly one.

As for normals, high poly is baked onto the lowpoly's UV.

[pusianka]

 

ok now I guess specular would do a huge improvement in look.

 

 

ok anyone want it?

 

380 it's quite ok I guess...

Edited November 27, 2011 by pusianka

[Baddcog]

Nice model, but I'd put more work into the texture, give it some grain and whatnot. felt (modst likely) would be 'fuzzy', the band might be silk. So more spec on band only, none on felt.

 

You could find photos of the materials and use them for the texture.

 

Right now it just looks like black and white color.

 

Typically I think the band would be all the way down against the rim also.

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The checker looks good, the main thing is to make sure they are all square and even, which is easier to do with more small checker. (either make UV's big like you had or make custom tex). Then if you shrink them evenly you will still be good.

 

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Looks like you got the basics of uv'ing down. really it just takes practice and doing what you're doing. There are different techniques but I like to break the model down into pieces that are easier to map, then recombine them.

 

ie: the brim and ver top planar map really easy. The top cylindrical maps really easy.

[pusianka]

Yes, sir!!