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[highlander_72]

Hi guys,

I have another layout for a CGTalk modeling challenge and for you to critique here and would really appreciate any comments on how to further improve it.



Took me about 3 hours. According to your experience, is that fast or slow in regards to using Layout, I mean?

Cheers!

PS: I am probably sounding like broken record, but really have to say it again and again. Using UVLayout this work was actually fun!

[headus]

As always your pics are really interesting! Your seams look good to me ... nicely tucked away.

"Took me about 3 hours ... is that fast or slow ..."

There's a lot of detail in that mesh with individual finger and toes and a detailed face, so 3 hours sounds pretty quick to me.

Phil

[highlander_72]

Thanks for the comments, Phil!

You are probably sick of hearing it, but I really couldnt have done it this way and as quick without UVLayout. It really was a breeze. The more I use it the more addicted to it I become.

You must have a deal with the dark side on this. lol

Cheers!

PS: One thing I havent been able to fully understand though is this: Why does the color coding show me heavy stretch or compression in some places, which doesnt really show as distortion once a texture is projected onto the mesh, while when I manually "pull the areas into the green", a lot of weird texture distortion appears?

[headus]

The color coding is purely based on the relative areas of the polys, so for example, the applied grid for a red poly will appear stretched out compared to surrounding polys. There's currently no feedback for skewing type distortion (ie grid not square when applied).

UVLayout tries to make everything square at the expense of some stretching or compression. By hand manipulating the UVs to get polys green (ie correct area), you're probably introducing some skewing, and often thats going to end up looking worse.

Of course there's always going to be situations were you might need to hand tweak UVs, but I'd say in most cases that usually you're better off adjusting seam locations to get rid of read and blue areas.

Oh, and don't get too hung up on having an all green mesh either. A bit of stretching or compression in your texture might be a lot better than seams everywhere.

I'm just the programmer though ... professional texture artists would have their own opinions :-)

Phil

[highlander_72]

Aha, I see! Many thanks for the explanation.

The skewing type distortion is exactely what I am getting with manual adjustment, so I basically just let Layout do most of the work on easy smaller island chunks, which I then weld to a larger piece according to the proper placement of seams. That usually produces a quite colorful overall mesh, but seems to be fine with a pattern applied.

Thanks again for the detailed input. Its greatly appreciated.

[highlander_72]

Hey Phil,

since you asked for it the last time. I'll harrass you with some, so far final renders for this particular challenge.

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The whole project is still far from finished and missing textures, particle/fluid/hair-fx and a background, but this is what I have right now and what is entered in the CGTalk HMC 11 voting thread.

Cheers!


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[headus]

Thanks again for the pics!

Phil

[anrshelt]

Nice layout....But I actually think that the UVs for the face should cover a much
larger area, or another UV range itself...

The devil is in the details...
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[highlander_72]

[UVDan]

Fantastic job. Your powers are nothing to be sneezed at.

[DRAKELOT]

Fantastic unfolding

[highlander_72]

Thanks a lot, guys!

[cali3d]

This is really good stuff !

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