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# 1 21-08-2011 , 05:25 PM
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Need help with UV mapping

Hi my name is Daniel and i have recently gone from 3dsmax to maya and i have huge problems with uv mapping.

at the moment im trying to uv map this object, its some rocks that i have done i zbrush.
i have watched a bunch of tutorials and i cant get this to work, some guys uses planar some automatic and some unfold etc. but nothing works XD

EDIT , cant get the forums image function to work either so here is a link to my screenshot
https://imageshack.us/f/832/crystalrocks.jpg/

# 2 21-08-2011 , 06:36 PM
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Is that one object? You won't be able to just press a button and unwrap that. You'll need to automatic map it, then move and sew the edges together. After that, you can use unwrap. It's not an automatic process.


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# 3 21-08-2011 , 06:53 PM
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but when i press automatic then i get like billions of small small faces in the uv editor

# 4 21-08-2011 , 07:05 PM
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When you exported from zbrush did you not go down to the lowest level............dave

Edit: you could try UV master in zbrush that should give you a good starting place




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# 5 21-08-2011 , 08:07 PM
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Try a cylindrical projection, and an unwrap.


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