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moochie



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:33 pm    Post subject: Otherwise Impossible Reply with quote

Anyone who's made human models will know some of the hardest parts to get undistorted uv's on are the head, (especially the nose, ears, lips and around the eyes), the hands and feet (especially the fingers, thumb and toes) and down the side of the body (especially the underarm area)**. Here's a model I'm working on .. a fairly dense mesh .. with undistorted uv's in all those awkward places. How do I know they're undistorted? Because that's not the mesh you're looking at .. that's the texture map template placed on the model as a texture and rendered in Cinema 4D! Thanks Phil .. what a totally wonderful program UV Layout is!

** Also the bum and crotch, but this is a family-friendly site. You'll have to take my word for it when I say they're stretch-free too!



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing the pics!

And yes, that is dense. I'm back at work now, and am finishing off something I started before the break that should help speed things up a bit.

Phil
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please, show more of UVW layouts of hardest parts of this mesh. It's really interesting.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okies .. more it is! Remember, the lines are from the texture template .. the sharper the better (ie less distortion in the UV's), though there is a little fuzziness from reducing the size of the screenshots and from jpg compression.

Can you imagine trying to map between the fingers, inside the ear, and the throat in any other mapping app, and getting results like these? Anyhooo .. here're some high-lights. Now I can create texture, displacement, normal and bump maps with complete confidence, and the lack of overlapping uv's means I won't crash ZBrush when I start texturing.



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's good stuff, moochie....any chance you can show how they're layed out?
(for example, curious to see how many seams you've got going)

cheers. Smile


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure. I can't get a perfect 'pelt map', because of the way I've set the model's arms and legs (for rigging purposes). So I had to split the map at the elbows and knees. It also proved impossible to get really smooth UVs around the thighs/butt if I kept the mesh contiguous .. which is why there's an odd looking split in that area. And the head split is unorthodox too .. splits up the side of the nose and from the corner of the left eye, to the top of the left ear. But this gives me almost perfectly flattened UVs. Since I'll be texturing in ZBrush, it doesn't matter that the 2d texture template has such unusual splits, because I can paint directly over seams in ZBrush.

The star-shaped objects on the right are the eyes. I'm experimenting with multi-layered eyes .. these may be changed, depending on how the experiments turn out.



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here's a random texture slapped onto the model over the head split, done in ZBrush. As you can see .. no visible seam.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. OK, I really have to get my act together now and will try and get the new optimized flattening working ASAP. If you crazy people are loading meshes that heavy, you'd like something faster I'm sure!

Phil
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twocust



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quite interesting splits, indeed. Smile

Thanks for sharing them, moochie. Without the ability to project in Zbrush (or
similar) I can see how they'd be a tough tackle for just using Photoshop. I've
done similar with some of my models, but I'm tending to place my seams in
armpits/shoulders/top-of-traps, pelvis, below-ankles, etc.

Still not entirely happy with my results yet, but here's my latest wires (not trying
to abuse your thread Embarassed ) Had to split the breast area onna counta they're
a wee bit large and stretch pretty badly.

By the way, are you using the Image Plane technique (shared by ryan kingslien)
inside ProjectionMaster? I ask, because even though I use that, my textures tend
to 'wash-out' a bit after return from ProjectionMaster...leaving me to touch them
up again in Photoshop (kinda why I haven't gotten too extreme with where my
UV seams get placed)

If you're inclined, I'd like to see how your multi-layered eyes turn out. Smile

Anyhow, glad you're spurred on, Phil. Very Happy

cheers.

twocust



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool. Try using the template as a texture on its own .. see how the lines look in the more 'squished' areas (side of the nose, butt etc) when you render.

I'm using a combination of ZappLink, ImagePlane, loading textures using the Plane3d tool (which is a different technique to ImagePlane) and editing in my graphics editor (Paintshop Pro, by preference). I also paint by hand in ZBrush, using the various brushes.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent stuff!!!
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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great info here, moochie and everybody else!
It'll take me while to really work through it all, as I a still trying to get familiar with the program, but I will post some results and probably some questions of my own when done. Very Happy
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