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3 Dimensional Chat / UV map trouble with hands

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Tom J
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Posted: 1st Jan 2009 16:41
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Hi all, I think this is my first post in this board; since I have only recently started modelling complicated things with Blender. I have just finished modelling my character, and am now moving onto texturing him. So far that is fine, however one part of the mesh is giving me a lot of trouble. When the characters hand is put on a UV map, it just comes up as a tiny mess (probaly because there aren't enough seams or whatever). The hand looks pretty confusing from a front on view too so it is hard to see where the seams should go... I was wondering if anybody had any advice on where the seams best be put to get a nicer looking UV map for the hands.



ps. Don't know why I put bounds in the image. I meant seams.

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Alucard94
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Posted: 1st Jan 2009 17:44
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You have the entire hand as one UV Map, you need to add more seams.


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Van B
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Posted: 1st Jan 2009 17:48
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With hands I tend to UV map the top and bottom seperately. So you would get the palm and bottom of the fingers on 1 part, then the top of the hand with the finger sides extended out, because that's the most visible detail. My fingers tend to be 6 sided cylinder based though, allows for decent detail and is quite low poly.


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ninja9578
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Posted: 1st Jan 2009 18:09
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I recommend cutting the hand in half. Along the ridge of the hand, that should make the UV mapping much better.

I always find hands the hardest to model, there are just so many little bumps and such. The way that I do it is have Makehuman (which is free) make me a high res model of a person, the I take the hands off of that, decimate them to an acceptable polygon count, then attach them to my model.

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