Blender: Problems with UV Mapping

by K1P57A on 08/12/2009 10:09, 19 messages, last message: 08/15/2009 07:57, 1521 views, last view: 04/21/2024 01:35

Hi Volks,

im recently experimenting a lot with blender. However since I've updated my older version of Blender to 2.49 I seem to get major problems with the UV mapping...


Take a look at the following screenshot I made:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1685/blenderwtf.jpg

What I've done was to select my Model in Edit (A) and then simply Unwrapped (U) it. I didnt use the LSCM Unwrap since my Model does not really have a centre line I could cut it throu...

Any ideas why Blender proportions my UV map so extremely weird?

Thanks for answers in advance already,

Thankfully, K1P57A

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by K1P57A on 08/12/2009 12:59

Oh, in case someone's interested what the model looks like:

Top View:

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6011/healtop.jpg

3D View:

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1992/health3d.jpg


This is my first Model for SB. I tried to keep it pretty lowpoly, but I think it should look fine, once imported to SB ;)

I'd be really glad if someone could take the time to help me UV map this thing ;)

Cheers, K1

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by Hirato Kirata on 08/12/2009 14:22, refers to #1

could you uplaod the model, so we could have a play with it; you know see what works for us

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by K1P57A on 08/12/2009 16:23

Sure thing!

Here we go:

http://k1p57a.fileave.com/090812_k1p57a_blender_medkit.zip

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by K1P57A on 08/13/2009 07:31

Dammn... I feel really stupid right now! I'm so used to using the LSCM Unwrap using a center I didnt even see the "smart unwrap" function... It all seems to be fine now ;)

I'll post a few screens as I work along,

So far,

K1p57a

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by K1P57A on 08/13/2009 09:38

Hmmm... Ok next problem, I've just exported my testmodel as an .md2-file.

However when imported to SB it seems to be missing faces! According to the tutorial, on the wiki, I should have done everything correct. It's converted to triangles, rotated 90° on the Z axis, the texture size is 256x256...

Here's a screnie:

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3895/brokenmodel.jpg

any ideas?

Hoping for Help,

K1P57A

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by K1P57A on 08/13/2009 09:39

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that the texture is all messed up :/

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by geartrooper2 on 08/13/2009 10:56

tab to edit mode, select all faces (a), ctrl-n to flip normals.

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by K1P57A on 08/13/2009 12:39

Unfortionately that didn't do all to much :(

If you'd like to see what I've done (and perhaps find a mistake?) you can dl it here:

http://k1p57a.fileave.com/090813_healthmodel_test.zip

I've ziped the blend & md2 file to look at... I seriously dont know what im doing wrong because no matter what I do, all my models look like that once imported 2 SB :(

Thanks for you guys help so far ;) I'd be really glad if I could get that to work ;)

K1P57A

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by geartrooper2 on 08/13/2009 16:38

try using the md3 exporter on the wiki and trying with that. I don't understand why you would use md2.

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by K1P57A on 08/13/2009 18:30

Downloaded it and tried. However I get a console error...

I opened "md3_export.py" in Blenders text editor and selected to execute the script.

Following Problem occurs:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5395/md3scripterror.jpg

Did I do something wrong or is there something wrong with the code?

(PS I'm using Blender V2.49a)

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by Hirato Kirata on 08/14/2009 00:13, refers to #10

it's missing it's shared scripts, said script being qshared.py for this particular moment

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by K1P57A on 08/14/2009 02:23

Hmm... Could it be that I'm having my .py scripts in a wrong directory? (I've tried putting them in the Blender folder, as well as in the folder where my .blend project's localized)

The DL from the wiki gives me 4 files once unzipped:

- md3_export.py
- md3_import.py
- md3.py
- q_math.py
- q_shared.py

As of what goes with the error messages, I always get error messages that the console cannot find one of them.

I dont know if theres some special way to link them together :(

I'd be really glad for an example how you guys use those scripts ;)

Thanks again for your input!

K1P57A

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by K1P57A on 08/14/2009 02:58

lol nevermind, after about 40 minutes of intense googling I've figured that the scripts folder is hidden due to a "." in front of the blender folder ;) Thanks to mac that makes the folder hidden ;)

Giving it a testshot now and Ill check back qith you tomorrow ;)

K1P57A

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by K1P57A on 08/14/2009 03:05

Hoorray! It worked!

Thanks a lot for your help, but I've got it all figured now :D

Yay It's a CUBE!

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1478/md3testcube.jpg


Guess u wont hear from me now in a little while as I'm gonna be busy modelling around ;)

Cheers K1P57A

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by K1P57A on 08/14/2009 14:21

Aaand here we go, my very first Model *yay*

3 days to learn the basics... that wasnt so hard ;)

I know the model still looks pretty crappy n all, but i'm working on it ;)


Picture here:

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/994/md3healthpackv1.jpg

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by geartrooper2 on 08/14/2009 15:51

not too shabby.

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by SheeEttin on 08/14/2009 23:46, refers to #15

The circles around the green parts are fighting with the straight parts at the corners.

But hey, keep modeling. Maybe you can try your hand at some new monsters. :D

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by tentus_ on 08/15/2009 01:35, refers to #17

Anyone else remember the Orb (Orbe?) mod for cube? Those packs could have *been* monster models. :)

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by K1P57A on 08/15/2009 07:57

Hey thanks on the positive replies! ;)

I will keep modelling, and who knows, maybe I'm even gonna come up with some good stuff hehe ;)

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