know of any good unwrapping tutorials?

longhornfan25

Hello everyone i'm new to pc, and was wondering if anyone knew of some good unwrapping/texture mapping tutorials. all the ones on the internet/lynda.co m are all pretty basic (ex box,microwave,and cereal box...)
i have no clue how do to something complex and its SO frustrating! lolol



help please

also how long did it take you to learn texturing(get the hang of it)?

sorry forgot to say im using 3ds max

renderhjs

in case you are using 3dsMax, there might be some tricks and tips in here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/renderhjs#g/c/9E2B5F03E0264773
using:
http://renderhjs.net/textools/
also look at the documentation there of each tool as it shows with a single animation what you can do with each tool.

longhornfan25

WOW, Textools looks amazing! definitely going to try to learn it

thanks, mike

tekmatic

Here are some cool tuts by Ben Tate that includes texturing of the models that he creates.

http://www.bentateonline.com/CG_Education.html

Also his brother's site contains more tuts: http://www.christateonline.com/Tutorials_1.html

Check also http://cg.tutsplus.com/ which is great tutorial resource and you can refine your search for unwrapping and texturing.

longhornfan25

Thank you

ayoub44

3dmotive have a good dvd for unwraping

http://3dmotive.com/product-uvw-unwrapping