Complex UV's

axxic3

I started unwrapping a model I've been working on, and Im wondering if theres a better approach to producing UV's for a somewhat dense subdivided mesh such as this one, I'll post some screens. I've watched several UV tutorials, and none have as high a poly count as something like I'm working on, so maybe I shouldn't be subdividing as much (2-3 Nurms iterations) or maybe baking? If so what can I use to produce the same or similar result of smoothing? Thanks for looking

http://i.imgur.com/AfvbgM6.png

Marshkin

Yeah, that's really high poly. What is this for exactly?
I would try to make something with less poly and smooth normals to get a similar effect. It will also make it a lot easier to unwrap.

axxic3

Its the front cockpit of a Spad A2,(http://i.imgur.com/RylOamb.jpg) and yes its a lot more polygon heavy than I want but its my first model and a huge learning experience. I'll check some tutorials out about normal smoothing, is it something to do with smoothing groups? I can never get my smoothing groups to work out the way I want, ends up overwriting the previous selection every time!

Quack!

Unwrap the un-subdivided mesh, then add your subdivision. Less cluttered uvs.

axxic3

If I add nurms or turbo smooth later it won't distort the texture?

ziji

Maybe Quack is right.:):)

ABBEY18

Why don't you apply high/low poly/low poly UV mapping approach? You don't really need so much polygons.

Quack!

axxic3 wrote: »

If I add nurms or turbo smooth later it won't distort the texture?

Try it.

axxic3

Will do