Life is worth living again.
So this week has pretty much been like a reading week seeing as everyone has reviews and we don’t have to go in for lectures or seminars etc. not the best way to tink of it
Buuuuut
Unlike last years ‘week off’ ive been up for 10am eeevvery day (sacrificing my usual 9 hours ) to be up and productive.
Ive made quite a lot of progress with work, the occasional speed paint and blog entry went down a treat, and I finally finished modelling my self-portrait so I could start unwrapping today. I just didn’t realise how frustrating spending my day with UV’s would become !
I literally spent from 10 till 4 trying to find the best method of pelt mapping.
I swear Max kept trying to piss me of. Replacing seems right after I had specifically deleted them, totally resetting UV meshes that I had painstakingly managed to create… I swear pelt mapping is the most complicated thing ever invented, or it just hates me.
Everyone knows the best way to create a mesh for the figure is to pelt map. But for the whole day, no matter what I did, the model always ended up was uvs stretched all over the body in some parts and too tightly packed in others.
It took me a while to figure out why my head wouldn’t unwrap properly. For some reason the stretcher, that goes around the outside of the uv to pull them out evenly, was only attached to the lips. Rather than encompassing the whole of the head.
I tried for ages to find a solution. Eventually I noticed because the lips weren’t attached together, a permanent seem has to be there ? so I extruded the lips inside the mouth and joined them together as kind of hidden geometry.
And voila ! check it.
The seam disappeared. I re-pelted and it worked ! I actually couldn’t believe it, THIS made my day. I was so close to giving up aswell. Trying different ways of fixing a problem, always ending in failure had taken its toll haha.
I guess if I went to labs there would’ve been someone there to help, but no, im too ill ! Youtube will have to do.
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