UV Unwrap

solarmanJc

I have been working with 3D Max for 2 years now and I am still a Beginner when it comes to UV Unwrap anyone have a short cut to this for the life of me I can not understand the Maps ..sure its easy with a Box or a sphere what about something more complex like a space ship or a Character toon
anyone any help in this area would be greatly helpful

Thanks so much

ZacD

For me, I like to figure out where I want the seems first, and start from there. There's a lot of tools to help making UVing quicker and easier.

You should post a pic of something you are having issues unwrapping.

JordanN

Someone needs to invent an unwrap button. A button that unwraps models in one second.

For the time being, I thought this tutorial was great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYW0y8y2hk0

Watch all 10 videos. It goes from easy (unwrap a building) to hard (unwrap an organic mesh). It taught me everything I need to know so far about unwrapping. And it's all in 3DS Max too.

Norstu

Someone needs to invent an unwrap button. A button that unwraps models in one second.

They did, it can be found in ZBrush. I love that button

XRayUnwrap also has a pretty Unwrap button. Requires a little more work than the ZBrush one though.

Mark Dygert

zBrush isn't perfect or as precise, painting seam "suggestions" around fingers is tedious and often messes up. Its not so hot at arranging the pieces, it works if you need a quick UV layout for a high poly but for a serious low poly object, I'd rather use max.

The best way I've found to unwrap is to...
Select a group of faces and hit quick peel.

ALSO...
Planar map the whole object from one view.
Turn on point to point edge selection and draw out your seams.
Break the edges, select the elements and relax.

miauu

For fast and easy unwraping, using the Peel mode in 3dsMax you can try [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiv6agJKXwY"]Easy Peel[/ame].