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21-07-2008
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UV Texture Editor - Automatic Mapping
I am back again with problem on the car model I am working. Currently its on the Automatic Mapping. I have worked for the last two hours fitting the jigsaw puzzle of the car body. Though I finally have all the pieces in one place, the shape of the car in the UV texture is completely gone off!
I have tried unfolding/relax etc but the shape is not coming to a reasonable structure. Since I will be working on PShp for the texture, its becoming a problem with the shape.
Any suggestions to get this to a reasonably decent shape?
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This will give a cleaner layout to work with in Photoshop or your painty package of choice...
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Will work with the solution of breaking this up into smaller lots. Of course, I have taken off the doors and the windshield etc from the earlier mapping but I guess its better to sub-divide them before I take it in UV.
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I have used the planar method and have done the mapping separately for front/side/top and bottom. I exported this to PS and worked on the textures.
My problem now is that when I bring this back to Maya as a Tga file, the colors are not as per the uvs. The enclosed pictures show the sad story.
I have tried this several times, including rotating the frame and repeat UVs but the colours do not fix properly. Not sure what the problem is.
Can some one help on this. Have spent the last many hours on this problem.
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my problem has been resolved now. Invariably, I have created many UV sets for the same object and these were all mixed up (read messed up) when I brought back the texture from PS.
Now I have been able to delete the redundant UV sets (though a few unwanted ones refuse to go) and I have the texture applied properly.
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