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Help with texturing a Tornado
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Will J 215 posts01 May 2007Hey everyone,
Some of you may have seen my model in the factory, but in case you haven't here it is:
The model is high res poly (except for wings and elevators, which are NURBS.) Thing is, I've not got the faintest idea how to texture it as I know that normal planar projection just isn't going to work. I've tried unwraping the mesh but it's always a big mess. Can someone offer some tips on how to get nice flat unwraps to compose textures on? I'm really stuck with this, it's such a lovely model and I'd love to see it finished. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Claymation 600 posts01 May 2007Something like this is usually pretty easy for unwrapping. UV unwrapping is really hard to explain, we were never really taught it in school, and I've never found many good tutorials on it. It's just something you gotta bulldoze through and teach yourself what works and what doesn't.
For most of it I'd probably do a planar UV map for one side, and have the other side a mirror of it directly underneath, so they both share the same UV space (unless you want them to have different textures on each side). Some of it maybe do a cylindrical map, or maybe automatic.
I would convert those nurbs (
) to poly's, then probably a planar map on those.
For the parts that you DO want different textures on both sides, you can select all the faces of one side, do a planar map, then select all the faces of the other side and do another planar map. That way you'll have two sections that you can texture seperately.
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Will J 215 posts01 May 2007Thanks, thats very helpful
Luckily the textures are symetrical on the left and right sides of the plane. I discovered how backface culling works to, which is immensly helpful. Here is the schematic I worked from, I want to use this colour scheme too.
Thing is I'll have to re-make this texture (not too much of a problem,) but I'll pobably have to re-make it with the projections in mind. Its very very tricky, and I'm still not sure about it. Hmmm.....this will take some thinking. -
02 May 2007
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Will J 215 posts02 May 2007It's just from s google image search, I take no credit for it. Well done whoever made it though!
Had some success with normal planar projection last night, though I'm having to be very strategic about it. I'll get there now I think. It's already looking good.
I made a new texture complete with all panels etc, and it's all grimy and dirty which looks brilliant!
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