How to make good lowpoly UV?
polycounter lvl 8
All the software I've seen, and whose tutorials watched, do not give UV quality i want. I look at Blizzard UVs, like this 
and then to that i recive
Where must i search?
and then to that i recive
Where must i search?
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I took the model and made software UV unwrap. I dont like it.
So i must transform UV manually?
You get that kind of UV's because the algorithm that unwraps the UV's aims to reduce stretching and pinching, meaning that it tries to create a uniform texel density across the entire model.
This is usually not what you want when working with low poly and/or hand-painted objects. Instead you should do planar and cubic (6 planar sides) unwraps and then alter (cut/sew) the UVs manually. Camera based projections are also very good, as you can select a bunch of faces, align your camera to face them and then do a camera based projection to get the UVs.
May I ask what software you use? The UV-tools in Maya and Max sucks big time. If you are a Maya user you should download my UV Editor (see signature below) - and if you are a Max user then I strongly recommend TexTools by renderhjs: http://www.renderhjs.net/textools/
@Onmioji, when you press 'w' in the Uv editor, you'll get a pop up menu with options to 'Align' the UVs on either the X or Y axis. When you select a row of verts you'll be able to use those commands to line them up perfectly straight vertically or horizontally, which would make this kind of workflow much easier. You'll still have to fiddle a bit to reposition everything to fit the texture, but that will get you halfway there.
Something else that might help you unwrap these in a more readable way is to unwrap each side of the hand individually. Line up the camera in an orthographic 3d view so that you're looking at one side of the hand. If you need to you can hide part of the mesh if it gets in the way; you may want to just select the hand, invert the selection, then hide the selection. So anyways, get your viewport lined up and select all the polygons on one side of the hand, then Unwrap->Project from View, select the island in the UV editor with the L key, and move it into position and optionally pin it if you wish.
Sort of on topic but when you create prefect squares like how ^ he is doing isn't there stretching? Can the above prefect squares unwrap also eliminate stretching or will there always be stretching when creating uv's like that?
I never did that so i was wondering besides compacting the uv's nicely what are the benefits to creating uv like that?
Always wanted to know because i like the look but when i tried i had stretching so how are people getting away with that?
Thanks for any help.