Uv Map Texture Techinque?

Deathead

I've been looking at alot of models on here and I must say they are excellent, but whenever I see their uv maps it looks naturally flowing between each area. But whenever I make a Texture I find myself with alot of space or just that it sometimes looks like a collage of textures. So to the flowing together is that a photoshop method? Or can it be done in a program lets say Paint.net?

Tumerboy

I don't understand what you mean by the "flowing together"

Deathead

Tumerboy wrote: »

I don't understand what you mean by the "flowing together"

Ok maybe I wasn't exact. But all of them go into each other almost seamlessly. I'll find a picture to see what I mean by "Flowing".

Edit:
Here you go...

It doesn't have no empty spaces but has it all covered.

EarthQuake

That texture just has padding around the boarders, theres plenty of wasted space there if you were to look at the actual uvs.

Jeremy Lindstrom

well you can't see the actual uv layout on that, but they just used the same color on the non detail so any bleed over is the same color as the object and you don't see any black lines popping on the seams.

Deathead

Thanks for clearing that up.:)