Unwrapping my cabinet in Blender?

Wolfer

Hi I have a question that involves unwrapping in my blender and just like to get some thought and opinion as it can be confusing for me. I have this cabinet I made and going to unwrap it. I also took the time to clean up an extra edges I don't need.  I feel using the smart uv project would be correct but what a good idea to keep in mind like i know the island margins should be separate by should the angle be about 60, I'm also including a picture that shows the unwrap result for it.

Kanni3d

You can overlap a lot of these shells to maximize your texture resolution/density. Maybe since there are 10 cabinet shelf areas, you shouldn't stack them all into one uv shell since it'd look very repetitive, but maybe break them up into 3 to 4 stacks of overlapping uv shells. Could also take advantage of the fact of any symmetrical geometry would stack nicely (left and right side of the cabinets are symmetrical, can be overlapped geo since you'd never see both sides at the same time)

Wolfer

Ahh I appreciate the info

poopipe

it's shaped like a box so unwrap it like one and then move the inner faces of the shelves off to one side



it will LOD to a box happily too if you do this 

obviously you need to lay the UVs out properly afterwards 

Wolfer

Ahh thank you