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[Rich-Art]

Hi All,

Here is my latest project. I used UVLayout for almost every object in these scene.


Peace,
Rich_Art.

[headus]

Nice! Because its lots of boxy shaped things, did you use the Segment tool?

Phil

[Rich-Art]

Thanks Phil,

Yeah I used the segment tool for almost all the objects.
And the new function for unwrapping pipes (R key) works great as well.

Peace,
Rich_Art.

[Josephus]

Rich, that is very nice. I'm just at the place in my 3d modeling/rendering that I need to start painting textures like this to my architectural models, hence my interest in UVLayout. I do have c4d 10.5/bodypaint, I've played with some of the basics but having a bit of a difficult time grasping it. A totally "noob" question...once you get your uv layout/maps in UVLayout, do you paint inside UVLayout or export to Photoshop, and then re-assign those images back in UVLayout? Any explanation would be extremely helpful.

[headus]

The basic work flow is that you load the model into UVLayout to create the UV coordinates (i.e. the flattened out pattern) and then save the model back out. You can also use the "Render" tool in UVLayout then to save the layout to blank texture maps.

If you load these maps into Photoshop you'll be able to see the UV coordinates drawn into the maps, so then you know where to paint. I believe that recent versions on Photoshop support the loading of 3D geometry as well, so you can see how the painted textures will appear on your model as you are painting.

You will then load the model with UV coordinates into C4D, and apply the painted color map before adding lights etc and rendering out your scene.

Phil

[r_knightly]

looks awesome. nice work

[Josephus]

[SLI_Fallen]

Note you will need to use the EXTENDED versions of Photoshop to have the 3D painting capability.