UV unwrapping of pothead

[Robin Hammond]

Hi Jonathan. Have just completed the uv unwrapping video. When you do the average islands scale is it better to have the source face as large as possible if you have a choice of faces or would it be better to choose one that is a more average of the whole. Also 4096 / 128 = 32 not 16  LOL. Packmaster is brilliant I used to try unpacking manually. Your tutorials always inspire me so please don’t cut out the mistakes and gaffs that way I know nobody’s perfect and you try different solutions before arriving at the desired way.

[Jonathan Lampel]

Hey, haha thank you for graciously accepting the gaffs that go along with it sometimes 😄 I bet what was going through my head is that if both islands have 16 pixels, then the total space between islands is 32 pixels, but that would have been in padding not margin. Good catch! 

I’m not sure I totally get the first question since I don’t think there is a source face for that operation – the active face is scaled just like all of the others and doesn’t seem to determine the resulting size any more than the rest of the selected faces. 

Looking forward to seeing your result! 

[Robin Hammond]

Thanks for the answer Jonathan I realized as I was reading  it that of course all the faces are scaled you only use the first one to set its direction. What’s coming next. Can you put pothead together in an animation.

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