Unwrapping the headphones
To start, we need to try and visualize the shapes we covered in our model and apply the same logic to them – that is, maintain the most visible parts without seams and avoid placing them in the main string of faces.
In order to see what our UV unwrap looks like, we need to access the dedicated tab for this: the UV Editing tab. To enter it, we have two options. The first one is to select it in the tabs above the viewport:
Figure 3.13 – Entering the UV Editing workspace using the tabs
Another way to enter the UV workspace is to right-click on one edge of the viewport tab, select either Vertical split or Horizontal click, then click again where you’d like the viewport tab window to be split (you can also join or swap areas using this method). Then, we should select the Editor Type icon in the top-left corner and finally, select UV Editor from the drop-down menu:
Figure 3.14 –...