obviously you have quite some experience....

do you know of any other way of tiling a texture efficiently for high detail ?
Such as the common brick tiling scenes ( pic below )

or using...

also dose this look right ?

it there a limit to the size you can save the image as uv image as ???

maya keeps crashing :( ive had to redo evrything a few times now....

could it matter whre i save it or dose this not...

thanx a milion :blush:

realy arpeciate people like you who take the time to help dudes like me :D

lets see how far i come this time before i need a little help again :)

ok ive selected them
then i click on the scale button in the main window
nothing changes in the texture window like it dose in the main view
is there a diffrent button i need to click ?

sorry...

ok i folowed waht you explaind above but all i get in photoshop is the black image above but i dont just want to texture one side of the 3d modell

dont i then need all 6 orange views of the 3d...

ill give it a go tnx :bow:

this is what it looks like in photoshop :

ok ive managed to get it mapped out properly
but now im stuck...
i want to exprort it to photoshom and make the texture the right size....

broblem is when i export it to photoshop looking like...

problem is that there are over 180 diffrent length hexagonal polygon tubes ....

id be 100 by the time id finish uv mapping each induvidual one :s

not shure but isnt there a simple way of...