Warping after applying texture onto Normap

robhp247

Hello,

I'm having issues with what appears to be artifacts and or warping on part
of the arms on this textured jacket. See attached

Steps
1. I created a high res jacket in zbrush, then did a re-topology in Maya using
Nex Tools and created a low res of the high res model.
2. I imported the lowres model into 3D Coat and did the UV's
3. I did the Normap in XNormals with high and low res models
4. Then, I imported this Normap into Maya 2013.
5. I imported a texture(fabric texture) from photoshop to Maya and
applied the texure ontop of the normapped model.

After applying the texture, I'm getting some strange warping on the
fore arms of the jacket.

Please advise, if how this is happening and how best to resolve this
issue.

Thanks

mAlkAv!An

You'll need to redo the UVs for the arms. Cut it along the long side to get a somewhat rectangular UV island instead of that circular one.

robhp247

Right, I'll need to go back and rework the UV's on the arm in 3D Coat.

By the way, so far I'm seeing the 3D Coat tends to make UV's more
rounded in general. Like you said, it will require more seems in order to
get closer to rectangular shapes

Thanks for the feedback

Mark Dygert

This is why I personally think a lot of character artists need to take some fashion classes, or at least research clothing patterns. Clothing isn't seamless and the more you know how it goes together the better you can design it, model it, and unwrap it.

Neox

Mark Dygert wrote: »

Clothing isn't seamless [/IMG]

this is not entirely true :P

but i agree

patternmaking for fashiondesign is a great book to start with, it goes pretty deep into the topic and describes more that you would ever now from just looking at clothes.

robhp247

cool, I agree uving and unwrapping clothing is very much like a seamtress starting with a
2D flat pattern design.

Thanks for the suggestions and feedback