Reply To: Collab2021-WIP-MonaLoren

week2- day 5 -little troubleshoting

I always run into problems with ugly distortions expecially on the handle.
I did this part several times, smooth brush did´t help, I relaxed the edges by hand and try a lot more, but nothing worked.
It was strange because the density on the edges are similar e.g to the top part and also  Kent did not have this problem in the stream.

only one example

Yesterday was a discussion about normal maps and distortion etc. in the wip-thread of  @lexicolopolis . At this time I still haven´t seen any conjunction with my distortion problem. But there had to be one.  Something that made Kent different. After sleeping some hours I finally had the idea.

I have made a test unwrapping on the Low-Poly parts. Not very clean and final, only as a test.
Copy the Low-Poly to made the High-Poly part.
So my dirty UV-Map was copied too. The seams were also not set cleanly and there were some issues.
And the distortions are exactly where I set these nasty seams.

Could be so easy.   So, I delete the Seams and UV map from the High-Poly and hopefully it will work now.
First tests are promising.

Totally forgot that there were these test unwrapping. Was so concentrated on sculpting 😉
Should have much more time to practice all the sculpt. But I am running out of time today. There is a deadline;)
However I will try my best to get a decent result. I have a lot of fun sculpting the lantern.