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FPSC Classic Models and Media / UV Mapping Video Tutorial by bond1

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bond1
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Posted: 17th May 2006 00:35 Edited at: 17th May 2006 00:37
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One of the most common things I get asked about is UV mapping. I had some time this afternoon so I made a 10 minute narrated video tutorial on UV Mapping.

I take you throught the process of UV mapping a character's head. Because if you can map a complex object like a head, then the same techniques can be applied to just about anything. I used my new female clerk model as an example.

Download here, 30mb:
http://hyrumark.zftp.com/FPSC/bond1_uvmapping.zip

Feel free to donate money to me generously and often if you find this useful. But I will settle for praise too.

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 17th May 2006 00:40
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Thanks Mark, I really needed a tutorial on UV mapping.



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Jon Fletcher
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Posted: 17th May 2006 00:54 Edited at: 17th May 2006 01:02
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damn, you beat me to it,ah well...

a great and useful tutorial, and i think this should be stickied

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ive donated $4.00, sorry its not much, but ...meh what happened to all the money made from model packs 1 and 2?

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 17th May 2006 00:56
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Just watched the tutorial and I it gave me a lot of tips on how to expand on my crappy UV skills, thanks Mark.



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Jon Fletcher
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Posted: 17th May 2006 01:13 Edited at: 17th May 2006 01:17
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ha, "back...and boom!" very nice bond

by the way, for version 7 users, is Best Align the same as average normals right?

also, when you show the UV map at the end, whats that stretch from the back texture? just curious

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bond1
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Posted: 17th May 2006 01:21 Edited at: 17th May 2006 01:22
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I think its a similar function, but I've been using version 8 for a while now... Best align adjusts the rotation and scale to give the best projection based on the average normals. Its just a quick little time saver for irregular-shaped objects. But you could also get by very nicely just aligning to the x,y,or z axis. You just might have to do a little more tweaking to individual vertices in the UVW editor to adjust spacing.

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Posted: 17th May 2006 01:26 Edited at: 17th May 2006 01:27
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Quote: "also, when you show the UV map at the end, whats that stretch from the back texture? just curious"


Oh and about that stretched area on the final map. That happens to be a goof-up on the ear mapping. I forgot to select one of the faces on the ear while mapping it , so it got stretched across the entire back texture...so of course I had to go back and redo the mapping for one of the ears, arghhh...

Its that little stuff that drives you crazy sometimes...

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Posted: 17th May 2006 05:57 Edited at: 17th May 2006 05:57
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Thanks Mark, I've been sticking to modeling objects,but I'm going to attempt to start making charaters soon, this will help out alot!

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Posted: 17th May 2006 05:58
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Cool.
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Posted: 17th May 2006 12:23
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Bond,
You ought to e-mail a mod and ask them to make this a sticky.
I bow to you,the FPSC King of Stickies...
In all seriousness,Bond,this is another killer job you've done.Thank you once againfor taking the time to contribute once again to the community.It is appreciated.

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Where you can find my demo:http://www.savefile.com/files/6970524
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Posted: 17th May 2006 12:26
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Great job, this will really help out the community

I also suggest that this should be a sticky.

Sig. pics are only increasing the loading time of the threads, so why have them...
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wow that was awsome.

so now we got the map, and then we open it in our favorite photo editor
and start putting in our textures. How do you have to change the 2d picture say (for example the face) or does max make the changes for you?
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Posted: 17th May 2006 12:59 Edited at: 17th May 2006 13:00
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Thanks guys

lilgamz, after you save out the UV template from max, you can open it in photoshop and use it as a template to create your texture. As you make changes to your texture in photoshop, max updates the model to reflect the texture changes automatically. But first the texture must be applied to the model, and that is done through the material editor in max.

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Posted: 17th May 2006 13:20
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have you tried lithunwrap? It seems to do almost the same thing but perhaps not as precisely.
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Posted: 17th May 2006 13:46 Edited at: 17th May 2006 13:47
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No I haven't used lithunwrap. I just don't really have any reason to try anything else. The nice thing about max is that its so tightly integrated with photoshop and can read psd files. I even have a neat plugin for max that can save uv templates as photoshop vector paths, so you can paint your texture with pixel perfect precision, or create perfect alpha masks, etc. Very handy little tool.

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Posted: 17th May 2006 19:34 Edited at: 17th May 2006 19:36
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No I dont blame you. We would all use those tools if we could. Most of us scavenge together systems from the verycheap and the free.

I would be interested in seeing how you use those photoshop tools.
That would make a neat tutoral as well

Keep up the nice work!
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Posted: 24th May 2006 02:19
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bump!

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bump
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Posted: 25th May 2006 08:28
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Thanks a milion dude!
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Thank You !

Cheers,

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THANK U your the greatest so sorry i have nothing to donate...well how about some space on my website.
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Quote: "THANK U your the greatest so sorry i have nothing to donate...well how about some space on my website. "


Haha no worries...I really don't expect any donations, it just that I see so many sites have a paypal donate buttn, that I figured "why not?".

Glad you found it useful.

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