Reply To: BC1-1908 Homework – Katerina Novakova
WIP 8: Reworks (cause I’m a lazy UV unwrapper)
My first victim was the barrel stave. If you remember, I originally created it mirrored on Z, with the individual parts separated and thickness added with the Solidify modifier. Both of the modifiers had to be applied if I wanted to achieve any reasonable texturing later, so I ended up with 12 pieces that all needed the same seam treatment. But I’m lazy (and I had to fix some mesh artifacts anyway), so I marked the seams on one piece, deleted the rest, added an empty object to the stave origin location and added an array with 12 copies and object offset.
One apply later and all the pieces have the same seams and fairly nice UV map.
Next part was the hoops. With Solidify applied, I ended up with the welded parts overlapping visually. That doesn’t make for an easy edge selection, so I used a little trick. In vertex mode, I hid (with H) one vertical loop. I selected the rest of the hoop and hid it as well, leaving me with just the end I needed to seam-ify. Not the fastest way to work, but slightly less stressful 🙂
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