Help with UVs wheel. Not sure if it's correct

Alex_the3DRookie

Hi first of all forgive me if the answer is too obvious. I recently forced myself to practice with UVs to learn since i'm a rookie when it comes to inorganic UVs.

So i'm modeling a carriage and I'm doing the UVs of the low poly version. Added a checker image I found on google and not Maya's headache one.
I'm not sure if the UVs are correct since the seems are too visible.

Tell me what you think. I have my doubts if straightening the UV was a good call.
I tried researching this problem but it was extremely confusing because there were a lot of discrepancies.
Thanks!

Kanni3d

yes, straightening it is ideal. sometimes a depending factor would be on what the asset is, and what sort of pattern/texture would be tiled on it, but most of the time straightening it is fine.

poopipe

I would overlap the sides if possible and tile the tread pattern (let it extend outside 0-1 space)

 if I had text to put on the sidewall of the tyre I would map that part  flat as you have for the wheel itself

But in principal that is the right way to do it

Alex_the3DRookie

Thank you both. I will experiment with what poopipe said