20 Tips to Speed Up UV Mapping in Blender

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In this video you will learn (at least) 20 tips to speed up the creation of UV maps. Below you can find an overview of all tips.
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Tip Overview:
01:13 - Tip 01: Generate UVs
01:59 - Tip 02: Mark / Clear Seam & Unwrap Shortcuts (Edit Mode / Ctrl + E & U)
02:55 - Tip 03: Smart UV Project (Edit Mode / U → Smart UV Project)
04:48 - Tip 04: Project from View (Edit Mode / U → Project from View)
05:20 - Tip 05: Live Unwrap (Edit Mode / Tool Shelf → Options → Live Unwrap)
05:53 - Tip 06: Tag Seam (Edit Mode / Tool Shelf → Options → Tag Seam)
06:40 - Tip 07: Keep UV and Edit Mode Mesh Selection in Sync (UV/Image Editor → Header)
07:59 - Tip 08: Mirror Seams (Edit Mode & Edge Select / Shift + G → Seam / 3D View → Header → Select → Mirror)
09:16 - Tip 09: Changing Island Margin (Edit Mode / U → Unwrap / Operator Panel → Margin)
09:40 - Tip 10: Changing Unwrap Method (Edit Mode / U → Unwrap / Operator Panel → Method)
10:35 - Tip 11: Island Selection (UV/Image Editor → Header → Island Selection)
11:29 - Tip 12: Protect Islands (UV/Image Editor / P & Alt + P)
12:27 - Tip 13: UV Sculpt (UV/Image Editor → Tool Shelf → Options → UV Sculpt)
13:22 - Tip 14: Show Stretching (UV/Image Editor → Properties → Display → Stretch)
15:32 - Tip 15: Average Island Scale (UV/Image Editor / Ctrl + A)
16:02 - Tip 16: Live Unwrap (UV/Image Editor) → (UV/Image Editor → Tool Shelf → Options → Live Unwrap)
17:21 - Tip 17: UV Grid Texture (UV/Image Editor → Header → New)
18:37 - Tip 18: Multiple UV Maps (Properties Editor → Object Data → UV Maps)
21:36 - Tip 19: Draw other Objects (UV/Image Editor → Properties → Display → Draw other Objects)
22:37 - Tip 20: Texture Atlas Addon (Properties Editor → Render → Texture Atlas)
24:07 - Tip 21: Selecting Islands in 3D View (Edit Mode / Face Select / L)
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[@MrBogfrog]

Thank you so much for including a timestamp list! It's amazing how many people make "list" videos and don't do this.

[@riccardobancone3761]

This is not a “tips” video, this is the ultimate guide to UV unwrapping in blender! Great job!

[@berkzafer8045]

Most useful UV Mapping Tutorial I've seen so far. Thank you.

[@skjahirhossain5084]

You covered all option of uv maping in a single video. I learn all these option by viewing 8 videoes. If i found this video before i can save my precious time. Thank you bro for your amazing voice and teaching style. Because you use multiple object to show us correct use of that option which i never find others tut. So now i became your fan and going to watch your reamining video

[@ian_snyder]

Wow, the mirror seams tip :O All tools that I knew about, never thought about using it that way. So helpful!

[@belajb]

texture painting and rigging would be amazing! as always this is an amazing video...tyvm! your one of the best teachers on you tube...your english is great!

[@brunocastro4558]

Make mine your words !!

[@amdx1975]

The best blender UVs tuturial I've ever seen before! Thanks a lot!

[@DavideTirindelli]

Super useful video, you're my hero :-)! I think some texturing tips in general would be great (both painting and correctly applying image or photo textures on a model) and another topic could be some tips on how to add details on a model... And thanks again for all the great videos in the channel!

[@ChrisD__]

Davide Tirindelli Those are two I struggle with too.

[@brunocastro4558]

Me too.

[@a.schubert2538]

Thank you so much for this! I was struggling with some issues by unwrapping my objects. With this video you solved them.

[@alperozgunyesil]

One of the best stuff about UV map in the KZbin. Thaaaank you!

[@basquera]

Your channel is great, man! I started with Blender now and your videos helps me a lot. Tks...!

[@mrnevermind]

I have no further question. This video is impeccable.

[@utc-8human197]

My goodness. This is like a big treasure chest of TIPS!! THANK YOU!!!

[@GerritSchulze]

Very useful video! Best 30min. I have spent today on something non-productive! I'd like to see some Retopo tips, if you ask me.

[@Ridgerunner2270]

This was very helpful. Thank you for making it!

[@austin5321]

This is one of my favorite tips videos thank you!! It helped me so much :)

[@baf_mcnab3065]

Awesome collection of tips. Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us. Now I am off to look for tutorials on texture painting in blender, hint hint :)

[@peterjaritz1642]

Super tutorial! I would love to see a subject-based UV unwrap tutorial, especially for hard surface modelling!

[@satyakimandal6572]

Definitely the best UV related video of blender in youtube :)

[@Jacur1980]

Great video, thank you. Also uber cool you added the timestamps/topics list like a real YT pro ;)

[@Baszczer]

Cool, I like it, thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@MrBlendercross]

Very help full TuT ! ...and texture painting is interesting for an next TuT....

[@satyakimandal6572]

By far the best UV tips video in youtube.

[@ama3dartist316]

Great Man.... Pls Dont worry about the people who criticize you.... You are ahead of them.... you did nice job...

[@atantalas]

Thank you for these wonderful tips. Very easy to follow and informative! Please keep making more wonderful videos and don't mind the negative reaction on how you say words in english. :) You are awesome!

[@nandrianinaharifera4244]

Thank you very much for this great tips, now I love UV mapping :D

[@jonasmlgaard8884]

Lots of usefull stuff there. Nice job and thanks!

[@RomboutVersluijs]

A tip when using live unwarp in the uv editor. Its also helps relaxing models. If you have unwrapped a model add a couple pins with some uv space around it. Then select one a press G, most of the times a uv mesh will spread to a more relaxed method.

[@user-li2zq3wf9u]

Thank you Thank you Thank you so much!! I was in a hard time figuring out Blender uv mapping...

[@jeffersonnmoreiraaa]

Wow!!! Amanzing Zac, I did not know several tips, thanks

[@AlimayoArango]

Spectacular as Usual. Thank you :D

[@grainzart]

Thanks! Shading tips would be great to see

[@onjofilms]

Nice job, great tips. Thanks.

[@mostofakamal9107]

Great tips here to follow up.

[@artemiasalina1860]

"Never laugh at someone with an accent; they know at least one more language than you do." -- Ricardo Montalban

[@alainpierre]

Good tips! Liked! Subscribed! Pls continue with the videos! I would like to see more about texturing, specially about materials, nodes, bakes, etc.

[@MrBobbyd45]

A texture painting tutorial would be great.Thanks for all the tips.

[@ragnardimarzo]

Tanks for your great tutorial!

[@fiendish55]

Rigging and skinning needs some love imo very few right workflow tutorials for them

[@Artem-ol1rw]

It's very useful! Thanks a lot!

[@marioCazares]

This is gold thank you!!

[@pierreldar]

Thanks so much for those tips

[@grabbitt]

thanks for the tips. I would love to see a tutorial on texture atlas. I never managed to get it to work. especially trying to get a few objects that have already been textured into 1 bake. many thanks

[@natgrant1364]

Incredibly helpful! Liked and subscribed.

[@waltage]

brilliant lesson! Please update it for 2.8!

[@premiero]

"texture painting" is way confusing to me in Blender, some tips on this topic are highly appreciated

[@Hinstea]

SELECT FACES THEN CREATE DIFFERENT MATERIALS

[@timbboerner]

Shading and/or rendering please! :D great video btw Thank you Zach

[@Varamthir]

Great video, awesome tips! I realy would like to see some tips and workflows on texturing objects, and about bledner texturing tools :D

[@mkd1964]

Let me tell you something about your English.. it's FINE. In fact, you are the first person I've heard who CORRECTLY pronounced "Smart UV Project". In every video I've seen - done by a native speaker of English - they pronounce it "PRO-ject" - as if it's a project they're working on. Listen up people, it's "pro -JECT" .. like a projection on a screen. The vast majority of Americans can't even speak a second language, so screw 'em. (I'm an American - but I speak pretty decent German, plus some Spanish and French - so I have the right to say that). Ausgezeichnetes Video. Sehr hilfbar. Danke.

[@lcc9769]

German Blender Tutorials are Best Tutorials.

[@cedricwright4161]

I absolutely agree with mkd1964...dude. Your videos are super helpful AND easy to understand. Any "language barriers" you feel you're running into really are a non-issue. Sometimes I play your videos w/o watching, just to listen for things I didn't know, while I work on something unrelated in Blender--and guess what--I can understand you perfectly! Typically, my advice would be to ignore ppl who would troll you so childishly, however, you've exceeded my recommendation and actually allowed them to make you better. Love that! Keep up the good Blender work and make sure any "linguistic challenges" you take on are for you and no one else!

[@masuka1993]

i cant believe ive never watched this video... thank you very much!

[@matteopellegrini3910]

It's fantastic!!!! Thank U so much!!!

[@ysr1910]

thanks Zacharias you are the best :)

[@oumiaboubakar5560]

Perfect!!! And very very helpful! Thank you very much! Great work! Texture painting would be appreciate :) Ty :)

[@robotorhummingbird444]

I admire anyone who can speak a second language! your english sounds brill to me!

[@saskialorraine5754]

so good. thanks

[@ToonyxLP]

I would love to see either Particeles, Shading or Compostitin in a new Video. Good work mate!

[@Plrang]

(texture painting) Nice, came here by chance and I found some new tricks, thanks

[@germanduterte7110]

Very very nice tutorial, thank you very much #Zacharias Reinhardt

[@ProxyDoug]

One thing worth mentioning is that you can unite vertices in the UV Editing window by selecting a vertex, pressing V and selecting the other instance of that vertex in the map.

[@TheSebledingue]

Thank you very much

[@johnnydwicked]

I would love to see texture painting including more vertex texture painting on sculpt models and such. =3

[@YouTubsel]

There are only so few things I feel I am missing from Modo that by Blender 2.8 I will try to make the switch. So. Damn. Cool. All those workflow tricks should really have their own Separate Appendix in the Blender Manual for each Category. Manual > Modeling / UVMapping etc. > [reference manual categories] + Workflow Tips and tricks I think a lot of these tricks are what many users are really missing out on before switching over to Blender. No matter if they switch completely or just as an additional software. Those quick tips are the shit for expereienced users. Persiod. :D

[@deadpoet22]

Your English kicks ass my friend. English is my second language, I had the opportunity to learn by being immersed. I respect the fact that you are learning it through your own efforts, that seems much more challenging. You sound great, and seeking to improve yourself only makes me admire and respect you more.

[@cameronberry5794]

Stunning tutorial - Very palatable. - I may just move on from just using smart UVs ;)

[@acidvideothomas8383]

i would like to see an in depth tutorial about the best way to set up your UV's in Blender 2.8 to export it to Substance painter. And maybe how to avoid common problems with this

[@pabloportela8715]

Thanks

[@ItsTime4Africa]

Thanks for your great work !!! Btw... your english improved a lot :-)

[@jobaglais8801]

My 7yr old boy loves how you pop up ad the beginning of the video.

[@JeanPaulLaureys]

verry nice, I learned a lot from your tips, can you make somthing about Texture painting pls...

[@farnazmarianoshokrifard8446]

Thank you so much , I really enjoyed it. I would also like to see a video tutorial from you regarding Baking . I am struggling to Bake a Logo that i put on a bottle and transfer it to Unity.

[@flyinsparkey]

you english language is better than most english people thanks for information keep up the good work

[@jayvanburg3943]

Pin islands is very helpful

[@RomboutVersluijs]

That 21 is also good to select materials or UVs. In the tools panel you can set the option of what yu want to use with select linked. Ctrl + L

[@noprofile6845]

Not only is your english OK, but pleasant enough that thinking this video was targeted at someone more basic then me, I just let in run in the background... then you taught me a feature I would''a killed for earlier... always wanted a smooth for UVs like you can with mesh (like in the W menu) never used the UV sculpt before... now don't think I''ll be able to imagine not using it.... so, thank you very very much.....

[@FrostedZaibatsu]

Here's a tip for you man. Your accent is fine, your english is fine. The people who make fun of your arent. Please understand that you and very understandable whether you thing youre not

[@Olstman]

Hi Zacharias. Thank you for such cool tips! According to live unwrap in image editor that was great discovery for me. Thank you! Just one refinement according to island selection on 3d view. (24:30) you mentioned that it doesn't working in vertex mode. Well actually it isn’t true. If you select one vertex and press L or ctrl+L (Select Linked) and then F6 (or see operator on T panel), You'll see that there is several option to select linked. One of them is Seam. Once you choose this method it will be used by default during the end of current blender session. This is not criticism)) Just want to share this tip with you. Best wishes!

[@nomorebs1668]

Great Job Zach Love the format of 20 tips. I create my own image textures in Photoshop and place them on my model. I use the nodes I use cycles. Each Material I make gets placed on a face. I feel very confused though about UV Coordinates Multiple UV maps UV editor window. Placing a material image on more than once face. I am confused about bending objects that already have a image placed on it. Where the UV s are saved how the UV maps work in textures . I suppose the essential basic concepts are missing in the sea of some very advanced tutorials. So I ask for the 20 Essential basics concepts needed for UV mapping. I just feel like I am missing something. How did you get away with scaling a map to Zero ? When I am using more than one UV map for one object. Thanks for a very usable and informative video !

[@veronikaovcinnikova1868]

Texturing, thank you, I learned some good things. Do you know something similar to "relax" uv island?

[@Taki7o7]

Hallo :D Ein 20 Tips Video für Animation wäre super ^^ Grüße aus Wien

[@Taki7o7]

Oh super

[@ckat609]

When you sculpt or 3d scan something, but don't want to do retopo, how do you go about texturizing/painting the model? Do you texture paint on the model? If so, what is the process? By the way... congratulations on taking something negative and turning it into a positive to improve your english, even though I find accents cool and never had any issues understanding you.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

PS at #16 its better to put the pin inwards a couple loops, that way the island will djust much better and sprint to proper shape.

[@personunbekannt5779]

sehr hilfreich, danke ^^ würd mich über ein video für shading oder texture painting freuen ;P

[@inalitsusasi3782]

Still using 1.49 because I know the UI but render in 1.59 hoping to start using 1.7# your English is fine many Americans can't even understand other Americans aka brooklyn accent vs south accent keep up the great tips

[@christian9068]

I would like to see a video about rigging or topology

[@Ianuarius]

Oh, also, if you have like 20 tips for baking normal maps and maybe retopologizing a model. My lowpolys with normal maps added always come out looking disgustingly bad even if the high poly is relatively nice.

[@Ianuarius]

I'd like to know how you sculpt and retopo something like the dinoman in blender... also texture painting.

[@fragelius]

u can press E in uv editor to refresh UV MAP manually too

[@prateekpanwar646]

More confusing thing for me is: Should I go this way: Mark seam> UV> Export UV and paste textures in areas Or: make texture> UV unwrap in selected areas Or: Make texture> Make a bit ok UV> Texture paint Which is good for making game asset?

[@ralphgibson6006]

Hey Z. re: tip at the end I am glad you took the high road .I had no problems with your English. Thx for putting these together. Is there a way to project an image texture over a bunch of particles. Ex create the rings of Saturn then use NASA texture to add color?

[@petcarlson]

I would like to see a tip video on all the most useful extensions.

[@activemotionpictures]

There´s a trick to select the same seam edges on the opposite side of the model. Does anyone know how to do that? Help me, please. Thanks.

[@pauljs75]

And the Multi-edit addon lets you 3D paint multiple objects at once, not just doing the expected mesh editing.

[@deadpoolbr0]

Great video! mb it's time for some new one of uv unwrapping? p.s. for me your english very clear with some german note :)

[@mahrcheen]

Most useful is ctrl + a & ctrl +v & ctrl + p - in short average, minimize stretch and pack.

[@MrAdarius1001]

Als Newcomer wollte ich 'nur' meinen Dank für Deine extrem hilfreiche Arbeit zum Ausdruck bringen... ;) Aber: Texture Painting ist spannend - irgendwie habe ich mal gesehen, dass man eine vorhandene Textur mit einem 'Pinsel' auf das Objekt malen kann - habe das aber nicht mehr gefunden...

[@critbyte]

your W's and your TH's and your good man :P

[@Heavenlystar987]

On Tip #15, when i press T and go to tools, I only have the Transform submenu, i don't have the others UV Align and UV Tools, can someone help me find out why and how to enable? I tried checking the addons but all seems alright :/

[@user-kh5jt8pt9t]

Do you have last blender version?? Last is v2.79 :)

[@ama3dartist316]

Hi Its very Useful video But how about unwrapping a mesh using UV Squares addon....

[@ArtemYoN]

Dude, you need learn use google kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIq9n3p_ptFli6s kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnLdl6ODrM9obac

[@ronaldorrego1445]

Hello man!!could you make a tutorial how to make the retopousing grease pencil as you made on your german channel? I know it's too much but that tut was awesome XD greetings from South America :)

[@Everyday_Foreman]

unwrapping of hard surface object and then texture painting using the unwrapped object. What method do you use