Hi, welcome for your first post here! I learn 3D by myself, I could have started a 3D private school but it is quite expensive and I'm not sure it would have helped me that much compared to the price. There are so many great course free or cheap on internet from really talented and experimented instructors. As I'm also…
@Zarakun, fair enough. I've found some tutorials that seems pretty good, and I'll give them a watch and we'll just see how it goes from there. Thank you so much for the help!
You should try to watch quickly some of the tutorial resources I provided to have an idea of how to bake common maps like normal or AO map at least. For your question about the shape of the texture parts, this is where a good UV unwrapping is important. When you unwrap manually your UVs, apply a checkboard on your…