Now, we are going to use a much easier and faster method to do the unwrapping of the Armor: the Smart UV Project tool.
The first thing to do is to prepare the armor pieces for the unwrap process, so perform the following steps:
Starting from the last
Gidiosaurus_unwrap.blend
file you saved, click on the 13th scene layer to reveal the armor and at the same time, hide the Gidiosaurus_lowres object.Go to the Outliner and select the first item, the Breastplate; then, use Shift to multiselect all the other visible objects.
Press Ctrl + J to join them into a single object, and then in the Outliner, rename the result as
Armor
.Go to the Object Modifiers window and expand the Mirror modifier subpanel; be sure that the Clipping item is activated and click on the Apply button: