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ghaztehschmexeh

Are you baking from a high poly? If so I doubt you'll need those extrusions. Just bake them on.

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ghaztehschmexeh

I'd probably do the blue areas on their own UV island as you said. Doing it all as one would probably cause too much distortion. Easy way to check this though is to use the tiled checkerbox pattern bitmap in max. Apply it to your object, unwrap one way, see how distorted the squares are. If it's noticeable, try unwrapping a different way.

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ZacD

I'd try uv'ing as a flat piece, there will be distortion when you flatten it, but it should work fine.

ZacD

if you are going to separate each bump, map the sides and top as one flat piece, you don't want too many uv seams.

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