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Coverage: Workaround to UV map many like objects using Blender, manual straightening of UVs (non program specific), basic UV layout management in UV Mapper …

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Coverage: Workaround to UV map many like objects using Blender, manual straightening of UVs (non program specific), basic UV layout management in UV Mapper Classic.

Target audience: Advanced beginner to intermediate 3D modeller, basic UV knowledge, no Blender experience.

This tutorial walks through the process of taking multiple similar geometries with no or non-matching UVs, and making them match. The application for this is where a model has many similar elements, all made with substantially identical geometries and requiring substantially identical textures, but with slightly different UVs - potentially resulting in hundreds of UVs to manage and texture instead of one. For me, this was a hair model where I missed a crucial step - UV mapping a base "strand" before copying and re-using it. Since each strand was slightly tweaked - slight bending or stretching - my 3D program (in this case Hexagon) generated slightly different UVs for each one.

This tutorial is not for commercial or other redistribution - please link to this page or DeviantArt. « Less