UV unwrap opinions needed

thinsoldier · Jan 2005

I ws wondering if anyone would consider helping me to uv map this thing. I'm getting nowhere with it

melkior · Jan 2005

I think this might be better suited in the request forum?

Michael Knubben · Jan 2005

If you mean help as in: "tell me how to do it", then the 2D/3D discussion, but if you want someone to actually do it, then yeah, requests.

thinsoldier · Jan 2005

its in there already, nobody replied

melkior · Jan 2005

Then you may wish to consider doing it yourself - and asking for tips as you go along - time to learn how to UVW map id suggest.

Best of luck.

TechSmith · Jan 2005

Go to this post and check out the UV mapping tuts. They're very helpful.

thinsoldier · Jan 2005

Here's where I'm at so far.
Whats right, whats wrong?
No, thats not the final proportions of the uv map. I know, make unimportant, hardly visible areas, smaller.

notman · Jan 2005

To me it looks good. You did a good job of avoiding stretching. The only problem I see now is all the blank space on your unwrapped image. The messes should be tightly together to avoid all that wasted space.

thinsoldier · Jan 2005

This is nowhere near the final map yet. I'll make sure to pack it together when it's done tho. I'm having trouble with the cylindrical area underneath and to the back of it. I don't know if its worth the space to have those flat faces of that area paintable.

thinsoldier · Jan 2005

OK, tried to squish stuff together.
How's this?
But this is only the cockpit area. Think I'll have to do the rear as another texture map?

FatAssasin · Jan 2005

It's not bad, but it looks like some parts could be rearranged differently to fit better and maybe allow you to make all the pieces bigger and give you more room to paint. Don't be afraid to rotate and flip parts to make them fit better. Think of it like a puzzle.

EmAr · Jan 2005

I think you should distribute those rectangle parts at the top into the spaces like the left down corner(thre are more of them). Then you can scale the whole thing up a little more.

UV unwrap opinions needed

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