Texturing Piero: Duerer’s Progress

[Ingmar Franz]

UV unwrapping the toes and the legs separately and then joining them gives me this result:

[Shawn Blanch]

Is there a normalize UV islands that would fix that?

P.S. Your Pierro is coming along awesome Ingmar @duerer 

[Ingmar Franz]

The newly created bridging “Edge Loop” creates a very distorted “UV Map Island”:

[Ingmar Franz]

Thanks, @blanchsb  😀! The part from the thighs upwards will be covered with feathers so that the stretching at the thighs shouldn’t matter, but I don’t know what Master Kent will say 😉😁. Isn’t there something called “UV Sculpting” so that you can smoothe the “UV Map” in order to relax areas with strong stretching? But I haven’t checked whether this is already a part of Blender 2.66.1 that I’m using since Kent uses it for this course

[Ingmar Franz]

Doesn’t Piero look now a little bit like a Scotsman 😉?

[Ingmar Franz]

Just had a magical moment 🧙‍♂️! Turning on “Textured Solid” in “Blender Internal” for displaying face-assigned textures in “Solid View Mode” makes Piero’s “Primary Feathers” invisible in front view (only!) as long as you don’t have “Matcaps” turned on:

And without “Textured Solid”:

[spikeyxxx]

@duerer UV Sculpting is possible in 2.66:

[Ingmar Franz]

Thanks, @spikeyxxx, for this information! It makes a lot of fun to work with earlier versions of Blender and to see what they already could or not. And it’s a little bit nostalgic, too 😉.

[spikeyxxx]

I agree! 

It also makes you appreciate certain features more, in stead of just taking everything for granted and only complain about what is still missing 😉

[Ingmar Franz]

Just found out that “Mirror Select” works in Blender 2.66.1 only in “Vertex Select Mode”. Nevertheless you can call this function in “Edge Select Mode” and “Face Select Mode” too, but the result only becomes visible if you switch to “Vertex Select Mode”. In version 2.71 it is displayed directly in “Edge Select Mode” and in “Face Select Mode”. I didn’t test the versions in between but suppose that this could have happened with the transition to Blender 2.70.

[Ingmar Franz]

Piero unwrapped:

[Ingmar Franz]

The “UV Grid” test texture shows the claw toes with an extremely high “Texel Density” compared to the main body:

“Average Islands Scale” in the “UV/Image Editor” spreads the “Texel Density” more evenly across Piero’s body:

[Ingmar Franz]

And with some more seams at the beak, the “UV Map” looks like this (with “Average Islands Sclale” applied):

[Shawn Blanch]

Very nice. I am not sure if you do have this, but if you have perfect symmetry on the left and right side of Pierro you could technically mirror the UV’s to make more use of the texture resolution on your texture map. It comes at a price though. You lose the ability to make unique texture differences easily between the right and left side.

I’m sure there are ways to overcome that but just wanted to point that out. 

[Ingmar Franz]

@blanchsb In this chapter @theluthier already used “UV mirroring” for the claws. I don’t know why @theluthier didn’t make use of that technique when unwrapping the main body since it will be covered with feathers that would hide any visual hints for mirrored “UV Maps”.

Mirroring UVs can save a lot of time when painting textures.  Isn’t it possible to bake that symmetrical texture to a new “UV Map” that shows both halfs of the model separately so that you can paint details asymmetrically onto it?

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