Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 1 26-10-2006 , 10:37 AM
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Problems with free texture tutorial

I have been working with maya for a year, and I've only focused on modeling and animation so far.

I decided to try the texture basics-tutorial, the free one.

The tutorial starts out with a door-model. Very simple model, and it took me ten minutes or so to build a similar one. The guy then says that he has taken the UV-coordinates, and put them into photoshop. I try to do the same thing, put when I open the UV texture editor, my UV's are all over the place. Its not like his at all.

Has anyone else experienced a similar thing? Or can anyone provide a solution? Kind of frustrating...

# 2 27-10-2006 , 05:34 PM
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Its not a true problem, your door just isn't mapped yet -

you need to look up a tutorial on something called 'uv mapping'. Basically, you're going to end up moving all the uv coordinates into a reasonable shape. Hitting either Polygon Modeling -> Texturing -> Automap or Planarmap first will work best. Then you move the resulting map (and sewing them) as necessary. But, err... I'd reccommend trying a tutorial.


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# 3 27-10-2006 , 06:14 PM
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the uv mapping for the door has to be done.you better larn about before texturing ,because uv mapping is the base of texturing.

to know about uv mapping u could see or read some tutorials.

u try these sites out to get anything about uv mapping.

https://www.learning-maya.com/texturing.php#uv
https://www.mtmckinley.net/

they are very good tutorials . they give u a basic idea of uv mapping.

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