More than UVs in Blender 4

Published: 20 March 2024
on channel: Create Visions
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In this detailed tutorial, we dive deep into the world of UV mapping with Blender. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user - here you'll get a comprehensive overview of all the techniques, tools, and workflows for efficient UV creation.
We start with the basics like unwrapping using different projection methods and manually setting seams. Learn powerful selection methods and shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
Whether simple geometric shapes or complex organic models - this guide shows you step-by-step the optimal approaches for UV mapping. Analyze texture distortions with Display Stretch and learn how to avoid or correct them.
For particularly large or highly detailed projects, i explain in detail the use of UDIM textures. This allows even huge UV layouts to be managed efficiently.
Powerful add-ons like UV Flow, Zen UV, or UV PackMaster provide an unbeatable workflow for all tasks from unwrapping to seam creation to flawless packing of UV islands.
After this video, you will have a comprehensive overview of everything related to UV layout in Blender.

00:00 - Start
00:18 - Basic Workflow
04:18 - Irregularly Shaped Meshes
07:50 - Projections
10:58 - Organizing Polygons and Objects
15:19 - Selecting Edges and Polygons
17:39 - Checkermap and UDIMs
22:59 - Organic Unwrapping
29:18 - Tipps and Tricks
32:17 - UV Addons

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