Common UV Layouts?

Proxzee

Hey guys, I was wondering, there's a lot of common shapes that get modeled a lot. Are there optimal layouts for things like cubes and spheres?

Ben Apuna

lol @ DKK sometimes it just happens that way...

In all seriousness there was a thread about unwrapping a sphere.

r_fletch_r

DKK thats crap! look at the overlap, definately not recommended!



Proxzee: best thing to do is post a mesh and let people demonstrate. your question is way too abstract

Eric Chadwick

There's some more advice here.
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryTextureCoordinates

PredatorGSR

It all depends on how it will be textured, and what angle the player is most likely to see. So the same shape might be uv'ed completely differently depending on how it will be used in game.