find some basic uv videos for sure. Cylinder project the outside of the Cylinder, project the faces facing upwards in the Y. Should be mostly good. Still check for distortion, but if it's minimal and you're painting in something like 3DCoat, then you should be fine.
You can align them at the same time on X and then on Y, making it pretty close. You can do it either with Textools (older script, might work), or with polyunwrapper (paid). Not sure how you do it without any external plugins.
your map should display mostly correct if you flip your green channel. some shaders require the Y (green channel) to be oriented differently. for the bolts not baking right see this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154
Hi Zzam_W I think you could try: delete ik in rotation local mod to set 0 to x and y axis of the forearm bone ? recreate ik. With IK, the children should have two identical axis to his parent ?
Yeah I already do use the perspective view and vertical Y. It helps, but it still feels very strange to me. Thanks for the tip regarding Shift btw! Helps alot! I guess I'll keep practicing though! Thanks guys!
I use that word all the time in my posts, so if it was me I apologize. My spelling is defiantly atrocious :p /remember definitely is definitely spelled d e f i n i t e l y...
Joshmtyler, I baked the map in xnormal with -y set in the baking options. I saw that this was the way to do it if you are targeting Max and udk. I'm using xoliul shader in Max. I may be flipping the green in the shader. Thanks for pointing that out.
Finally got him in-game to set up the spec/gloss textures. Had to scale him up 15% to match the proper version. Now all of the bits are offset on X and Y axes by some amount. I have no idea why :/
at this stage i would recommend blocking in colour; it'll help with grouping details and getting proportions right; you can drag your concept in as a texture, apply it to a plane, then colour sample the texture (shortcut c) and go from subtool to subtool, rbg > fill
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