Well, the thing is, preference does not matter one bit here. It's not about "what do you think should come first", it's about understanding why it is actually being done. I know I am sounding like a broken record but please do take the time to work on something similar to the spherical thingie I've shown as an example. I…
but you offset the line one next to the mirror line, no? this looks like its mirrored on the center. to get the same, just unwrap one half, then symmetry, then weld the center line
I can't think of a good reason to do it deliberately outside of an effort to fix baking artefacts but you could work around in other ways that don't screw you later on. It most likely just got borked during an import/export process - how did you get the model?
Hi there, Please re-read my posts above carefully, and also please manipulate actual model examples like a hand or a an analog to that spherical grenade/vial thing. As only thinking about these things will not get you very far - it just has to be manipulated to be grasped. In the case of the hand, it wouldn't matter at all…
So just to double check for in the future, I'm guessing when I have made this mistake in the past, it was because I assigned a Smoothing Group to one side of the hand UV (1) and then another (2) on the other side. So am I right in saying that both shells would need the same Smoothing Group (both 1 in this case)? Or, is it…
I should've mentioned - it's something I'd like to replicate. I've made my own version of the Hell Knight. :) It's a project I'd been working on a year or so ago and I've come back to it to fix up. I'm wondering if it was done deliberately. A thought did cross my mind though, which I might have to try... I'm wondering if…
Hello ! The example with the hands is really as straightforward and self-evident as it can be. If a modeler on a team made the model the way shown on the right, for a bake supposed to capture smooth skin/organics, it simply would have to be redone after removing these hard edges because they are not only unnessary, but…
Here's another practical example that should (hopefully !) settle this ... Now to be fair I would agree that this does indeed require a bit of thought as well as some practical experience to wrap one's head around it ! But at the same time this really isn't anything new, and it becomes really quite self-evident when…
"I've always been taught" ... by who ? There's a world of difference between best practices and recommendations which can only be generic, and the specifics of a given model developed under (also very specific) circumstances. This is obviously a "one off" model. This is completely different from a model made to be modular…