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Re: Need advice on unwrapping a dragon head
Whenever I have an area like that eye, where it can't relax properly, I try cutting another seam from there outwards. So I would start at the outside corner of the eye and follow that edge loop towards the horns. Relax that and see if it works. You could also try cutting out an eye-patch shape, and then cut across the… -
Re: What are some good UV Plugins for Max?
What exactly do you miss from Maya? Personally, coming from Max to Maya, I found a lot of Maya's UV tools quite clunky (although others are good) :) You should try out this workflow (ideal for characters & organic meshes anyway): * Planar map all polys of the object, just to get rid of any seams. * Select edges in the… -
Re: Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!
Cross post from the blender master thread I have been working for a while now on an upcomming tool called Pin & Relax for TexTools which is started to mature recently to something productive. It unfolds and Pins selected edge loops into straight lines and relaxes the rest of the UV island. Similar to Headus UV layout with… -
How do you work with UVs that are wider then they are tall? (Like 512x1024)
I'm having trouble working with doublewidth UVs. The relax tool only wants to work like the map is perfectly square, thus relaxing into all the wrong shapes, and when I rotate objects, if they were scaled properly before to the 2:1 shape, the rotation causes them to be way too tall and narrow now. Sometimes I can get Max… -
Re: Anatomy study entirely made on my Ipad
Well done on the model. Making it on an ipad is probably like making the Eifel tower out of match sticks. If you are going to sculpt/model human anatomy its useful to have a great 3d reference on a screen next to the one you are working on. your second screen can be a really cheap one if you aint rich. Daz3d is still free… -
Re: (WIP) Mafiosa character project
neat concept and progress, perhaps if you have the time, check out some of the wrinkle brushes and tools like the "gravity" options to see how the folds work in a cloth simulation, <(yt link) if you wanted to then simplify them if you do to get the look you are trying to get to, just my. 02's if it helps, otherwise carry… -
Re: 3ds max unwraping resources?
See, I never denied MoP's claim that all my problems could be solved by some simple scripts. I'm just saying that Max's native UV editing should INCLUDE all of these wonderous inventions. Thanks MoP, Vig & Eric Since you're on a roll, is there any magical script that will keep my UV's from spinning around into twisted… -
Re: help with workflow on modular assets
Yea, making edits to geometry after UV'ing, will mess with UV's. There a small handful of operations that don't mess with UV's quite so bad like making cuts or subdividing, but usually if you add geo, weld something or bridge gaps, especially along UV seams, they will almost always connect the faces to both sides of the UV… -
Re: Halo Reach
Hehe, yeah I just read that it had nothing to do with the UV's, but rather the texture compression. Also, Modo has an amazing relaxing algorithm, and makes a considerable difference when you are unwrapping. I have taken countless assets that are organic, and unwrapped them in XSI with a ton a lot of stretching, and figured… -
Re: [Character Model] My first character model
looks pretty good so far Timber. I've got a few crits for you. - make sure you model your character in a "relaxed" pose. That is, with their arms and legs slightly bent, and their fingers curled. It helps provide weight and mass to your characters and helps out later when you go in later to add in bones and joints. - As…
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