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'[R-CON wrote:Tim270;1739473']Starting to scratch a itch I have had for a while.... keeping it a little under wraps for now

Surround wrote:* I added a buggy baked version of it. Does anybody have idea why the baking gave those funny edges?

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;1714667']The next big thing you need to keep in mind is that you can't stich bits of the model together with diffrent smoothing groups. If you have your UVs stiched together your normal (bump) maps will not come out right and there will be a big line/seem on the stiched part where two diffrent smothing groups meet.
Here's a quick example just encase your not sure what I'm on about using the butt of the SA80 rifle.
First of all the Smoothing groups, the top face uses smoothing group 3 (shown in blue) while the back (and underside) of the rifle uses smoothing group 2 (shown in red). As you can see the two smoothing groups meet at the very top of the back of the rifle.
Here is the stiched UV:

And in the render of the model after its been baked with a stiched UV, we can see a big black seam across where the two smoothing groups meet.

Now here the un-stiched UV:

And in the render of the model after its been baked with an un-stiched UV, we can see a big black seam across where the two smoothing groups meet.

Stiching UVs is something on a normal UV that is not having a texture baked to is something you should do at every oppitunity to make it as easy for the texture artist as possible to match up the textures on diffrent parts of the model. While this is some what still true for baking textures you should still stich up the UVs as much as possible, just dont stich up the UVs between two diffrent smoothing groups so make sure you know where your smoothing groups are and that you do not stich them up otherwise your normals are going to look totally rubbish and nothing like as good as they would otherwise. Even thou your UVs are not stiched, you can still put the faces that would be joined together much closer to each other than you would for a normal UV as any texture bleeding wont matter because the textures are the same on both sides, just make sure you have the right faces, the right way round next to each other. Simplest way to do this is to stich up your UVs then brake them at the points between two diffrent UVs.

ubermensche wrote:Hahaha yeah I hear ya. Well I just began to work on the turret and the chassis. And didn't pay much attention to it details yet. Anyways here's where I'm at now:







And thanks for the link. I'll give it a good look on during the weekend.

'[R-CON wrote:Tim270;1751153']Think I am near done with this

http://i.imgur.com/crhna.jpg

Not my model or uv map, just texture. (model is by Harry)

Pvt.LHeureux wrote:If this gets better and you agree, it would be cool to use it for Project Normandy

We need a german heavy tank to fight the Pershing we got.

Pvt.LHeureux wrote:Yes we have a Pershing but we are looking for a bigger german tank (like a panther) to fight the Pershing.

[R-CON]Tim270 wrote:Can I ask what position you fill on the ICV team Seb? Do you have a folio link? Just interested