Reply To: the motherlode of confusion

hmmm… I’m struggling to explain myself. 

1. I fully understand the concept of UVs and I’ve seen and produced plenty of games where the artists have used these. 
2. I have already watched all the videos in this section through twice
3. I’ve unwrapped Suzanne no problems

What I don’t understand is why when I replicate JLs steps precisely I get shown a different result. (I opened the blue grid as the image background to the UV)

Could I have some sort of cached unwrap/packing setting from messing around without knowing what I’m doing? Someone else posted with this exact same issue so I think the answer must be something simple. The confusion is not my lack of understanding of the *concepts*

If I Select All edges of the shader ball and UV>Unwrap>Unwrap I get this

[edit: which I can’t upload cos the button again actions the pop-up image URL and not your media library]