- Blender 3D Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Blender 3D Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Modeling the Character's Base Mesh
- 2. Sculpting the Character's Base Mesh
- 3. Polygonal Modeling of the Character's Accessories
- 4. Re-topology of the High Resolution Sculpted Character's Mesh
- 5. Unwrapping the Low Resolution Mesh
- 6. Rigging the Low Resolution Mesh
- Introduction
- Building the character's Armature from scratch
- Perfecting the Armature to also function as a rig for the Armor
- Building the character's Armature through the Human Meta-Rig
- Building the animation controls and the Inverse Kinematic
- Generating the character's Armature by using the Rigify add-on
- 7. Skinning the Low Resolution Mesh
- 8. Finalizing the Model
- 9. Animating the Character
- 10. Creating the Textures
- Introduction
- Making a tileable scales image in Blender Internal
- Preparing the model to use the UDIM UV tiles
- Baking the tileable scales texture into the UV tiles
- Painting to fix the seams and to modify the baked scales image maps
- Painting the color maps in Blender Internal
- Painting the color maps in Cycles
- 11. Refining the Textures
- 12. Creating the Materials in Cycles
- 13. Creating the Materials in Blender Internal
- 14. Lighting, Rendering, and a Little Bit of Compositing
- Rendering an OpenGL playblast of the animation
- Obtaining a noise-free and faster rendering in Cycles
- Compositing the render layers
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Preparing the low resolution mesh for unwrapping
- UV unwrapping the mesh
- Editing the UV islands
- Using the Smart UV Project tool
- Modifying the mesh and the UV islands
- Setting up additional UV layers
- Exporting the UV Map layout
So, at this point, we have sculpted our high resolution character and through the retopology process, we have obtained a low resolution copy, which is easier to use for rigging, texturing, and animation.
There are several ways to apply textures to a mesh in Blender, as in any other 3D package. In our case, we are going to use UV Mapping, which is certainly one of the most commonly used and efficient methods for organic shapes.
Before the unwrapping process, the mesh must be prepared to make the task easier.
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