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Published: 2014-01-26 09:59:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 4145; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 347
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Merging UVs for Like Geometries: A Blender Workaround For Non-Blender Users
Coverage: UV mapping many like objects in 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.
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Wow, great, thorough tutorial. Thank you for taking the time and doing this.
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