Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
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med lab wip
Ive been working through the med lab scene. The modelling went ok. but its more for the texturing/lighting/rendering that I want to learn. I spent the day yesterday agonisingly sorting out uvs, and I have a question.
When you apply a texture to check the uv layout, i.e, the checkerboard pattern, as seems to be popular and that I used for this, when I see other peoples work, the squares on the checker pattern are always very small and very neat. The squares on mine, lay fine enough, square edges generally running at 90 degrees, but the squares are huge!!. Does this mean that my uv's arent laid out well enough, or is there a way to scale down the texture so that the pattern is more identifiable?
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i.e the top right square of the UV texture editor?
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how do i find the attributes to change in the 2d node?
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Excuse me, but you probably don't have a Texture2D since you used the checkerboard texture... I think it has an attribute something like "checker size" (and color aswell). I guess you assigned the checker to the color slot? So go to the material editor, double click the material and then click the little checker to right.
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Also, i would use a checker jpg rather than the checker texture in maya.
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try this -
i know you have already fixed it, but this would be a good thing to use in future.
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That should do it!
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