The Complete Guide to UV Unwrapping for the 3D Artist - Where & Why Marking Seams

[@MuffinMachine]

I highly recommend Grant's courses. I've watched others who attempt to learn blender by scrabbling various KZbin courses together and they tend to struggle a lot. The simple fact that Grant uses a thought out lesson plan where each step builds off of the last means that you can move in a consistent direction, rather than randomly through various steps. Grant makes mistakes on purpose to show you how to escape from, and correct, those mistakes. Above all, he has a consistent pacing and calm but cheerful demeanor that make his lessons easy to follow.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@arti5769]

Nice to read. I actually want to go for the black friday sale. However, english is not my first language and I'm thinking of getting a german course instead. Dunno if it's better for me though, since I watch almost every tutorial in english by now, (but still struggle with a lot of vocabulary.)

[@golemtabak1183]

@@arti5769 It was the same for me and over time I learned "Blender English". Grant is an excellent teacher. Our apprentices make the same mistakes over and over in Blender and I always say "Didn't you do Grant's tutorials? Do them!" :)

[@manonthedollar]

07:17 - "Let's finish off by looking at the monkey once again." Beautiful sentence.

[@C0llinsW0rth.]

This was excellent, literally was just using smart unwarp and wondering why the textures were coming out weird on my stuff, thanks so much for this clear and concise video!

[@seanposkea]

Nice job. I appreciate the extra work you're putting into the production values. Its a lot more work to make this documentary style than a simple screen recording. Looks good.

[@Rozlan31]

Agree on this one, yep

[@bastian6173]

Yep, definitely stands out among all the other channels here on KZbin. Top notch production level

[@TikiShootah]

Very informative. I remember the wild west days of blender, with ppl trying to use external programs to uv unwrap because blender was so clunky.

[@anettebianca6855]

wild west indeed - lol!!!

[@phwilk]

This is a great explainer video, and kudos to your effort in showing just the right visuals to get the point across! I have made quite a few tutorial videos for other things specifically in my line of work. Your technique is really good, and I appreciate how you explained it. I wish this was around way back in time when I first began using 3D applications and using primitives before actually modeling. One of the biggest turn-offs for beginners is UV-mapping for texture. So, for most beginners, it is easier to use the other texturing methods that avoid the use of UV-mapping. I even changed textures on 3D files provided with the UV maps that the original artist made. That hack got me by... but ultimately, I wanted to create from scratch without doing that reverse process.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@ibrahimert1453]

I can't tell you how grateful I am. I will buy you a beer once i got a job i promise.

[@nostalgicnow6001]

Thanks so much for notifying us on Udemy! 🙌🙌

[@djordjestokic7962]

Thanks Grant! These type of videos are really informative.

[@SaniveK_]

BUFF GRANT IN THE HOUSE!

[@the_stray_cat]

3:22 the other problem with this method is it being ununiform . you need your uv map to be somewhat uniform or else part of your mesh will have higher resolution the others . which when doing things like faces is vary notisable

[@raphaelprotti5536]

My suggestion to really make this 'complete' is an explanation of UVtile space and the different nomenclatures. Like UDIM and Zbrush/Mari.

[@macofish1]

As always thank you Mr. Abbitt, good stuff.

[@gugsgugi]

i think the easiest method is break the model into pieces and then apply smart uvw unwrap it always help me

[@monas1510]

Nice to see you again!

[@saurav68786]

Thank you. this will help me a lot.

[@LopezBOT90]

Thank you so much for this breakdown. ☮️☮️☮️

[@mhhilex]

been a while, I've missed your great videos!

[@emergencyfood6565]

great work !

[@TheRichardMarks]

You got a sub from me from this video. Great stuff. Short and to the point. Excellent! Thank you. :)

[@CGSTUDENT15]

That's Great video Coming to blender after 2 months cause of my first year exams now my computer is giving me dome errors when i open any thing but i hope i will fix it in a dayd anyway great video ❤

[@megansmusiccorner4666]

Awesome video! Thank you so much for the explanation!

[@Igoreshkin]

God how much I hate unwraping. I work with product visualizations and unwraping shrinkfoill in such way that 2D design looks good is such pain in a booty.

[@cosmic_koala]

very helpful nd really quick thnx a lot

[@juncando]

Excellent.

[@robertelmouchi5018]

GREAT EXPLANATION! Thank you. :-)

[@1312motorsport]

very good

[@vivekvictordungdung8859]

This video is great. Could you further explain the tools we can use to arrange the UV islands. Like pinning and other tools like that?

[@grabbitt]

Yes next video 😄

[@vivekvictordungdung8859]

@@grabbitt Hurray

[@mrcricket275]

yes

[@TheFlyingEpergne]

Could you also do a video on multiple UV maps for 1 or more meshes, thanks!!

[@FunDumb]

I seams to get this!

[@shardaojha7558]

Hello can you make a video in which you show us how to apply texture on object step by step on a item. It will help a lot

[@grabbitt]

See the plalist for uv unwrapping

[@zacharystephens174]

My issue has been making my character for unreal in blender. I kitbashed with multiple obj and fbx files, so I have five textures applied to 17 materials. I wanted to uvunwrap it but no matter what I seem to have 90 islands which consistently results in blurry muddy textures when I bake and apply them. I'd love to learn more about the texturing technicalities

[@grabbitt]

That will be down to the overlapping faces wasting space on your uv map

[@zacharystephens174]

​@grabbitt gotcha, I'll check it out. I don't have many overlapping faces afaik. The model was a full body outfit, I only added a head, hat, goggles, face wrap, and gloves. I'll work on it some more and see what I can do, though. Thanks

[@tonybrutal]

I love all of your work. Always amazing and better than what most colleges teach.

[@grabbitt]

You can now but you weren't when I released the video

[@plinker439]

My question, do you unwrap a whole character to one UV map or more? What is the practice of this?

[@grabbitt]

You can do multiple if you like

[@johnjoeparrot]

Do you recommend any UV plugins for characters models?

[@grabbitt]

Uv pack master I think it's called could be useful

[@johnjoeparrot]

@@grabbitt Thanks dude! I'll give it a shot. I'm enjoying your character creator course. It's easy to follow along to and the results are dope

[@paradoxvuim8562]

Ty bro

[@AnimaStudio88]

You forgot to say WHERE turn on stretching function! ^^ (choose symbol with 2 cycles and turn on Stretching)

[@grabbitt]

Next video

[@Jez1963UK]

What do you need to do if/when your texture isn't a square one - oftentimes I'll have a wood texture (eg Arroway) which aren't square at all :) - what to do then?

[@grabbitt]

The uvs adjust automatically.

[@Jez1963UK]

@@grabbitt Respectfully, that isn't true. I looked it up (because I needed to) and the answer is you need to scale the UVs in either the x or y axes by the aspect ratio of the image (and I tried it and that works).

[@duftcola]

Ok but what do you do if you have an object made out of different meshes like a game asset . How do you uv unwrapp that ??

[@grabbitt]

Select the whole object and go into edit mode and unwrap

[@vetor1982]

Great, this subject is hard to explain. Need to pratice a lot. The tip to reduce for basic shapes is killer.

[@_sherps2831]

Any big good tips for seams with models that have beveled edges other than using a bevel shade?.

[@grabbitt]

same rules apply really. do you find you get errors?

[@sirarzey]

Hello Grant. When i export my final object into FBX format, and then import the object into a new blender project, the Material tab/textures in viewport display are now set to alpha blend and not opaque as its supposed to be. I can of course flip it back to opaque and the object works fine, but how do i export it as opaque? Is this a glitch? I am using 3.1.2 version of blender. Cool videos btw.

[@grabbitt]

I've not encountered this problem before sorry

[@judofernando8298]

question please, how can i unwrap 4k uv ? every time i try to unwrap, it always bigger than the uvmap

[@grabbitt]

it should be unwrapping to the size of your image

[@judofernando8298]

@@grabbitt i use substance painter when texturing. should i adjust the UV size from blender ?

[@dopplegangerdavid]

I saw your anime course on Udemy. Is that your waifu, Grant?

[@cekconi1773]

👍👍👍

[@sabrishparker7629]

Sometimes a white patch occurs while unwraping on uv islands (like at 6:52) could you tell me why this happens?

[@grabbitt]

I think nuthatch just the selected face

[@AstralNostalgia]

deleate the seams at the end of the model before exporting the model and voula, not more rare bleeding or bad projection in a game engine.

[@glory2027]

how to make a 3d robot in blender 3.3.1🙏🙏🙏

[@arpuarpuarpu]

2:52 what is shorcut to unwrap

[@grabbitt]

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[@Роман-т8е2р]

I didn't get anything

[@recsund]

"its 'seams' obvious"

[@bennylittle9678]

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[@UnrealEngine-wo4bf8ij9z]

i wouldnt call this a “complete guide”

[@grabbitt]

Perhaps I should have called it the complete beginners guide

[@Norman_Peterson]

I HATE! UV. i hate unwrap! you didn't explain the most important and convenient thing. that MULTIUV, multi uv on multiple materials can help a lot.

[@TheFlyingEpergne]

Could you also do a video on multiple UV maps for 1 or more meshes, thanks!!