Unwrapping Saber hilts

[zeek2304]

I CAN'T DO IT. I can't find any tuts on how to unwrap a model and I have no idea where to start. Can anyone help me? I've gotten to the part where I have to seperate the vertices and whatnot.

[Hindy]

Have ya tried

 

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/

 

Look under the resources section... You should find plenty, especially on the Quake sections. Personally Im yet to do this and I sure I will as equally stressed when I do!

 

Programs like Ultimate Unwrap 3d are available, Ghostpainter 2 looks to be promising too. Type them in google and look on the official sites

[Psynex]

Oh boy...THAT tutorial. Well, Unwrapping is no easy task and I don't advise using a plug-in simply because they take the majority of the work off of your hands, but they don't teach you how to lay out a good skin map. I'm re-modelling a low-poly version of the sword of omens to go with my Lion-O character so I suppose I could write a new lightsaber tutorial in the process. Since that may take some time, I also stand by checking out Polycounts website. They have a video tutorial tutorial vault. I learned by grabbing an unwrap video by Bobo the Seal. He unwrapped a head, but I learned a lot about UVs from it.

[clu]

I've suggested this one before, but I'll do it again:

 

http://www.waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html

 

UV unwrapping was probably one of the most difficult things for me personally. This tutorial helped a lot.

 

-clu

[Commodus]

Try http://www.planetfortress.com/tf2models/tuto/3dsmax_sc/tuto_3dsmax_sc4.htm . The first tutorial to explain the thing to me...

[Psynex]

Yum...older versions of max. Those tutorials are quite outdated IMHO. Zeek, what program are you using? I'm assuming Gmax since you're following that terrible tutorial.

[zeek2304]

Yeah I'm using G-Max. I've tried using lithunwrap and it works to a degree . . . but everything is all spread out and messed up. Basically it doesn't work.