first texture project - rifle
my photobucket album for this project
http://s1138.photobucket.com/albums/n531/88ppclolmud/blackrifle/
going to gym now. will brb and then see how uvs look exported
http://s1138.photobucket.com/albums/n531/88ppclolmud/blackrifle/
going to gym now. will brb and then see how uvs look exported
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Combined a lot of similar parts like rails
start texturing and see what happens....
Edit: I also changed the scope to be more highpoly along with the ring ironsights
But if you can work on it with this texture, I look forwards to the results.
I'd imagine a UV like this would be used for automatically generated maps? like a sculpted high poly or something?
I would focus on making a highpoly, honestly, then the lowpoly would be easier to unwrap
Model texture progress
have to go to gym, later
Seriously, you'll kick yourself further down the track when you realise that you could've done it 10% better! Do it!
I mean can you even tell what is what if you didn't have your 3d app open? Odds are...probably not.
I select the uvs in Maya [I have split windows. 1 for uv editor and one for perspective view, they're stacked] and see where they show up in the perspective view. It's not really that bad.
I have no idea what seam lines & pelting is, I'll look that up. It is a pain in the ass to texture but that's what the UV looks like. The biggest parts of the gun [the body and top handle] are by biggest UV pieces so I think I did that right.
Not really sure what you mean here.
Again I need to look up shells/islands. I'll see what EQ has posted.
I guess plastic [I did the for the gun sides, it's a bit too heavy though] and metal. Metal rails, scope, etc. Not fully sure, was making it up as I went along. I wanted/want to make a rough texture all over and then take my time and make the metal, scope etc highlights etc.
Heard that already.
I will look up these UV tactics and see what I get.
Perfect Blue's Thread
Waviness
Malcom's Workshop #3
I know there are more, but those are the 3 threads that come to mind right away.
(he he he)
Goal in mind is to make community assets for games I liked to play in the past.
Thread is not dead lol
gonna try something simpler like a character
Just my 2c
so i should make like a flower pot or something instead? a fence?
post what you have, what your problems are and let folks help you.
oh no they are very helpful actually.
You want your uv map to be easy to texture as well as using up as much space as possible. Make sure you use reference for this too. Find one you like and try to match it exactly. It is really good practice!
also, i just noticed something. the top and bottom pieces of your barrel is one big circle. you should have any polys that are more than 4 sides, so you should probably split that up. at least that wont take to long.
Figure out where you want your seams to be on the model. Seams occur where two clusters of your UVs come together. Unless you have a perfectly tiling texture and/or carefully plan your seams, seams will be visible and are pretty ugly to look at and generally frowned upon. Think about how the player will be seeing your model. If the camera will never come behind the model, put the seam in the back. Etc
The yellow outlines where the texture is visibly interrupted by seams. You can see the seams in the UV map too in yellow. Your UV map for the gun not only was hard to comprehend to paint it, but it also had a bajillion seams, which is bad. Sometimes you can get away with lots of seams but you want to only use them when necessary.
Yes, you'll want to redo your barrel UVs like how octokitty has them laid out in their example. "Wasting UV space" means there's too much space in between your shells (individual pieces). You want your UV map to be as tightly packed as humanly possible, so that you fit as much detail into your maps as you can.
Maya's Auto Unwrap creates a bunch of tiny pieces. If you go into Edge mode in the UV Texture Editor window and select an edge, the corresponding edge will also be highlighted. See where the edges meet up and sew the UVs together (using the Move and Sew or just Sew UVs buttons on the top of the window). Try not to leave everything too scattered.
When posters were saying how you could keep the side together, they mean keeping the whole side panel of the gun as one shell, instead of 3+ scattered pieces like how you had it before.
See how the whole side panel of the car and the top is stitched together? So much easier to paint!
You can also stack your UVs. It saves time and UV space. Lots of low poly objects (like this car) and things like guns, swords, etc can be split right down the middle. Then you only worry about unwrapping/texturing one half. Other repetitive details can be stacked too, like the car seats in the image and the wheels/tire tread.
Google is your BEST FRIEND. Try looking up some step-by-step unwrapping tutorials. Maybe someone on here can refer some good ones.
i clicked on an edge of the barrel err girth [the wide big part lol] and saw i was able to sew them all together.
did the same with the barrel cap on top
i think this is looking better yeah?
For the sides of the cap, do the same you did with the barrel body, create a vertical seam, so you can lay that out flat.
That said, it is nice to see that you take the advice given and put it in practice. Keep up the good work and positive attitude and you will learn fast
also would it be worth looking into normals and a spec map for this piece?
As for normals and spec, that's up to you. I haven't followed the thread that closely, I don't know what your aim for this barrel is. If you want the practice, then by all means, do it.