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# 16 17-09-2011 , 04:35 AM

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Just so you know, you don't really need Headus for this, Maya's tools would be sufficient. Especially if you're looking at making this a career, many studios (especially smaller ones) may not have Headus. I strongly recommend you learn Maya's own tools; as these techniques can be applied with other software as well. It's also usually faster to unwrap hard-surface objects with the built in tools once you get comfortable with them.

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# 17 17-09-2011 , 07:55 AM

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+1 what nextDesign said.

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# 18 17-09-2011 , 08:03 AM

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Thanks guys, so I'll try to do it once more with Maya's own tools and then repost it here.
One more question: what mesh is better to unwrap low poly or high poly ?

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# 19 17-09-2011 , 10:52 AM

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UV the lo-poly mesh

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# 20 18-09-2011 , 10:55 AM

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As I were working with 3DS max I mainly used "Pelt" and "Relax" tools for mapping, but in Maya I can't find something like this, is it missing or it just has different name ?

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# 21 19-09-2011 , 02:04 AM

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IN the UV viewport between 'select' and 'image' you will see tool...in there is the smooth tool with some options creck.

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# 22 19-09-2011 , 02:14 AM

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To add to Bullet's comment, under the polygon menu, there are "relax" "unfold" and "layout"... that might be what you're looking for? I'm not familiar with max.

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# 23 19-09-2011 , 06:25 AM

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Yes, that's the exactly what I was looking for.

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# 24 30-09-2011 , 11:14 PM

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Well, its been quite a while since I posted here, been busy because of school. After couple of hours trying to map this violin and here is the result.
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# 25 02-10-2011 , 07:36 PM

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Hi mates, got a little problem again :/ today I've finished UV's of violin and I did in at low poly mesh, but once I smooted it, shapes has changed a lot user added image

this causes to me pretty ugly look...

Here is screen, around "f" is that what I am talking about

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# 26 02-10-2011 , 08:03 PM

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try this....

1. duplicate the voilin

2. keep the original unsmoothed

3. smooth the duplicate

4. select the low poly mesh , then shift select the hi poly mesh then pick mesh>transfer attributes options and reset it and then just change the sample space to local. Then apply and see of the texture distortion goes away.

I think you can then reset the smoothing divisions to 0 and delete the history and the model textures should be undistorted the next time to smooth

I hope this works for you.

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# 27 02-10-2011 , 08:15 PM

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It could be your seams, if what ctbram does not work try stitching the small UVs into the larger one and do a unfold in that area, It looks like you have the same problem with the outer beading...........dave

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# 28 02-10-2011 , 09:34 PM

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Thanks for reply, I've tried what you wrote but didn't work user added image

it looks like that smoothing has deformed whole UV's :/ screens: before, after user added image

any suggestions ?

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# 29 02-10-2011 , 09:42 PM

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Now I have a closer look at you mesh you have some ngons(polygon with more then 4 sides) its a good idea to clean these up. Just add some edges from one side to another......dave

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# 30 02-10-2011 , 09:49 PM

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What strikes me as odd is the unconnected polygons being formed on the edges of the F's and outer edges. Even with the ngons I can't quite figure how those are being generated unless there are hidden faces and disconnected edges.

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