Chris Tyler Tutorial Listing: UV MAPPING

This UV mapping tutorials walks through the process of UV mapping a broiler pan type of object. in preparation for texturing and rendering it. It uses the BurnUV function, Box Mapping, the UV editor and discusses several important aspects of the use of the Thickness function in relation to UV mapping. It also covers the usefulness of the Unweld functionality when doing UV mapping.

This modeling and UV mapping tutorial shows how to create a ribbon object used for holiday ornaments. It covers modeling, starting with a simple bezier path and the extrude tool, and then progressing through the use of a bones object to control deformation. It also discusses how to retain and use UV’s generated from the bezier extrude tool.

This is a tutorial aimed at intermediate to more advanced users which deals with the relationship between UV mapping and cylindrical projection mapping. Specifically, it deals with two things; how to map the caps separately from the cylinder; and how to create distortion free UV’s for the body, meaning how to maintain the correct aspect ratio of the cylinder 3D geometry to the UV space geometry. In many ways this is geared towards users newer to UV mapping so there’s a lot of explanation about the UV space. This tutorial is done entirely in Design3D but does use Wings3D to help demonstrate a few parts of the tutorial (it’s not necessary to know Wings3D for this tutorial).

>Double walled geometry and bitmap projection. This tutorial shows how to create a label applied onto a cylindrical type object which has thickness. It helps to show how to prevent the label from being projected onto the inside of the object using UV mapping. Part of the exercise shows how to set up the label material so the bitmap applies predictably and with a specific size. This also helps to show how Design3D handles the creation of UVs for newly created polygons.

This tutorial shows several methods for maximizing the use of the UV space. It focuses on UV coordinates generated from a cylindrical projection map. It also focuses on how to create and maintain undistorted texture application.

This tutorial shows how to UV map a connecting ring as part of a metal bucket.

This tutorial UV maps a metal nut type object. This is a follow-up tutorial to the modeling of this object.

This UV mapping tutorial shows how to use Wings3D to augment the UV mapping process.

UV Mapping an Oblong Container. This tutorial shows how to UV map an object created by extruding an bezier profile.

This tutorial UV maps a padlock type object in the Design3D 7.0 UV mapper.

UV Mapping a paper shopping bag. This tutorial UV maps a brown paper bag.

This tutorial walks through working with existing UVs in addition to creating new UV’s for a chess piece.

This tutorial UV maps a typical product type tube object in the Design3D 7.0 UV mapper.

This tutorial shows how to UV map a rounded cube to create a seamless texture around the perimeter (front/side) faces. This specific tutorial shows how to UV map a cube using the subdivision surface method for creating rounded cubes.

This tutorial UV maps a squarish tin can product type object in the Design3D 7.0 UV mapper.

This is an introduction to the Design3D 7.0 UV Mapper.

This video talks about the nature of the Weld Tolerance function in the UV mapper and how it is both similar and different than the Weld Tolerance function in the polygon modeler.

This tutorial discusses several conditions that will prevent UV vertices from welding and how to diagnose this when it happens.