Uv Mapping Confusion

Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 28-05-2012 , 04:02 AM

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I have become entirely confused with the texturing within maya, for more complicated models. Cubes make sense, but other than that i don't get how it's done. If you had a model with more that 40 polygons, and you looked at it in the uv texture editor, it's all fluffed up, and i have no idea how to un-fluff it... I've seen people do it, and even when done i don't understand how it is that they can look at it and say "Oh, that's definitely the bottom of the ear lobe, can't you tell?" because it still, even un-fluffed, lookes like a bunch of incoherent lines in a less than coherent shape.

Could anybody explain this in simple terms, or direct me to a video in which it's done?

Thanks!

P.s. "This has been asked before, noob!" Yeah, i'm tired, and you're not helpful.

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# 2 28-05-2012 , 05:13 AM

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This is a good one: https://simplymaya.com/autodesk-maya-...=125&sub_cat=2

Parts 11-20. You can purchase a 14-point package, which is $27.72. That will be enough to cover the 10 needed for the tutorial, with a little left over for some other neat stuff user added image