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Danny's UV tools ROCK!!!
I finally got a chance to start texturing part of my ARGUS ship model, and just watching the UV editor window while the UVLayout script is running was SOOOO fricken COOL!!
Kudos to you and all who worked on it!!!
It has turned what I thought was going to be a month or longer texturing process, into probably about a week!
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question...
I'm not done yet, but I wanted to ask you now befor I continue to possibly uv myself into a corner that I cant get out of.
Below is a shot of them on my unsmoothed cabin to my ship model. (not quite done tweaking details yet tho.
Eventually, I wanna have the pieces welded together to make one big piece, (like you did on your test character)
..or even a few large pieces, so I can export it to PS, paint it, then import it back to Maya.
I wanted to ask if I'm starting with a LOT of shaders, then I join all the major UV pieces that can be joined, how do I know what shader belongs to the lager, newly joined UV piece(s)?
..so that I can know what shader to put the image onto.
Thanks for any info!
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Got it
Thanks man, and if I have any other q's, I'll either pm ya, or most likely ask you in irc while I'm doin it
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Your shader tip worked a charm
However, after spending about 4 hours tweaking uv's, I thought of something. (doh!!)
Um, should I be selecting faces, and running your scripts on my object AFTER smoothing it?
..or before smoothing?
I ask because after doing a uv snapshot of my unsmoothed object uv's, I plopped a test texture in it & saved it out as a tif, then I applied that back to the color slot of my shader, and did a test render, and...
It was garbled a bit?
Just wondering
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You might want to try deleting the history before smoothing. I've found that when dealing UVs, the history can cause a lot of problems.Originally posted by ragecgi
One last thing...
Your shader tip worked a charm
However, after spending about 4 hours tweaking uv's, I thought of something. (doh!!)
Um, should I be selecting faces, and running your scripts on my object AFTER smoothing it?
..or before smoothing?
I ask because after doing a uv snapshot of my unsmoothed object uv's, I plopped a test texture in it & saved it out as a tif, then I applied that back to the color slot of my shader, and did a test render, and...
It was garbled a bit?
Just wondering
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27-05-2003
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ooops, sry, I meant to say that it was garbled AFTER I smoothed it.I ask because after doing a uv snapshot of my unsmoothed object uv's, I plopped a test texture in it & saved it out as a tif, then I applied that back to the color slot of my shader, and did a test render, and...
It was garbled a bit?
Will try the history tip now
Thanks!
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28-05-2003
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(SEE PIC BELOW)
I have NO problems starting over, as I have a non-uv'd backup of my model piece, so I was wondering if I should just smooth it first, then just suck-it-up and deal with wading through the high poly/uv count?
Again, sorry for being a pain...
PS - lemme know if I should start posting this in the Texturing section, as this doesn't really have much more to do with your awsome tools
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