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Blender 3D Cookbook

By : Enrico Valenza
Book Image

Blender 3D Cookbook

By: Enrico Valenza

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Blender 3D Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Smart UV Project tool


Now, we are going to use a much easier and faster method to do the unwrapping of the Armor: the Smart UV Project tool.

Getting ready

The first thing to do is to prepare the armor pieces for the unwrap process, so perform the following steps:

  1. 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.

  2. Go to the Outliner and select the first item, the Breastplate; then, use Shift to multiselect all the other visible objects.

  3. Press Ctrl + J to join them into a single object, and then in the Outliner, rename the result as Armor.

  4. 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:

    The Armor as a single object and the Mirror modifier

How to do it…

Here is the unwrap process:

  1. Press Tab to go into Edit Mode and press the A key to select all the vertices of the Armor.

  2. With...