Critique on UV's

Francois_K

I've been working on a model for a bit now and I just finished the UV's and low poly.

However, I've been hearing how my UV placement is usually quite terrible , and some edge-flow parts as well.

To my untrained eye , this is fine.
But I have an inkling it's got a lot of errors.

Help ;_;

Brian "Panda" Choi

You could pack it in more. It be a bit long winded to say how specifically, but just see how you can stack things or mirror elements.

Francois_K

I scaled everything up equally and made the tentacles mirror-able, everything else I had planned to have asymetrical because I sculpted details that way.

Looking at it I'm thinking the head is a bit large in comparison to everything else.

pior

Maya has an awesome soft selection brush for UVs (top left of the window). Use it to your advantage - you don't have to keep the UV islands exactly the way you got them automatically unfolded.

For instance, the shape you have under the hands could be straightened out to fit into a layout much better ; the tentacles could be more straight too, and so on. There is a ton of space you can still use here.

Francois_K

Fixed the things you mentioned and tried to make it tighter , there's still some air but I'm clueless of how to fill that void now.

huffer

- they could use more padding, some shells almost touch
- if you have any straight lines, you could flatten them, so they are straight in the UV's, and you won't have antialiasing issues at a low res normal map (jagged edges): the belt for instance

Francois_K

Moved them a bit around for the edge padding.

Noren

Main body part, which is basically a cylinder, looks quite distorted. I'd try to get the seams at the back parallel as well.

Francois_K

Noren wrote: »

Main body part, which is basically a cylinder, looks quite distorted. I'd try to get the seams at the back parallel as well.

What do you mean with distorted?
You mean the rotation of it?