Tutorials: Modeling and UV mapping a table-top advertising display

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1. Marky1 October 4, 2011 at 1:44 am

   How did you turn on the screen shoot in photoshop when you selected the faces? I can’t see where your cursor goes?
   On part 3 around time 2:55

   Thanks,
   Mark

2. Chris Tyler October 4, 2011 at 1:51 am

   It was just a layer in the layers palette. Sorry, I should have had the layers palette on screen but the record area is small and so I’ve tended not to have palettes in view.

   Chris

3. Marky1 October 4, 2011 at 2:28 am

   Oh ok I understand that, I’m curious how you selected the faces in photoshop like you can in Strata? When they were highlighted red. I noticed you had the eye dropper selected when doing so.

4. Chris Tyler October 4, 2011 at 2:38 am

   Oh I can see how that could be confusing as I look at it. I think what I had done was have some polygons selected when I had created the layered PSD file for the tutorial. When I recorded the tutorial the polygons weren’t selected, but appeared to be on when I enabled the template layer in the psd file.

   Chris

5. Marky1 October 4, 2011 at 2:45 am

   I think I know what happened. Maybe you took a previous screen shot in strata when that area was highlighted red? haha sorry if I’m confusing you.

6. Marky1 October 4, 2011 at 2:49 am

   Ok cool problem solved. I really like the new native UV mapping, even though I was starting to master Wings finally haha.

   Thanks,
   Mark

7. Chris Tyler October 4, 2011 at 2:56 am

   Yep, I think that’s what happened. Sorry for the inconvenience.

   Chris

8. envirochris October 4, 2011 at 5:01 pm

   I get it now! Thanks for the great lesson.

   I have one problem I am facing… transparent linked file. Our label we are applying is die cut so that the bottle show through in certain areas. When applying the uv, the areas are white, not clear. How do I resolve this?

9. Chris Tyler October 4, 2011 at 5:26 pm

   You would have two materials on the object. The lower material, under the label with stencil, would have a glass type material. The stencil would cause the label to appear as though it were adhered on top of a glass material.

   https://www.strata.com/?p=4284

   Part two of this link above will show you how to create the glass material quickly.

   Chris

10. envirochris October 4, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    Okay, I’v got glass down but am still getting a solid white background when bringing in my label to lay on top. Can you point me in the direction of a tutorial that might guide me along with the last step… so close to having this done!

11. Chris Tyler October 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    And you’ve got a stencil map applied for the label?

12. envirochris October 4, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    Okay, I figured it out. I mistook what you said earlier and applied the stencil to the glass material. I created a stencil.psd and applied it to the label material and it’s working. Yes!