How To Not Suck at UV Unwrapping 

17:06 "every *HARD* edge needs a seam but not every seam needs a hard edge" - correction to the missing word 😅🙏

Bob Ross of UV unwrapping.

Bro this is both extremely educative, and extremely relaxing. Never ever stop making these.

I've used this exact process for the last 6 years and it's yet to fail me! Also to add to why straightening UV islands is important. When edges not perfectly cardinal they can create jagged edges lines of pixels at the border. Think about it like your islands going with the grain of your texture. 10 pixels in a straight line will make a smooth line, while a 10 pixel line at a 45 degree angle will be very jagged. (Edit: I just saw mentioned this later on. Shouldn never have doubted you ;))

I enjoy working with UVs now that I've gained some experience, and having Zen UV and UV Pack Master 3 as my go-to addons for UV unwrapping makes the process incredibly smooth and painless.

You sound like a national geographic narrator but for game art. I love it, and thank you!

My sister just told me you sound like the all so kind Newt Scamander and now I can't unhear 😆Thank you for another great tutorial!! They are truly a pleasure to watch

yep you earned that subscription. I have always hated UV unwrapping and you have enlightened me. Good stuff!

This is great. Id love to watch a walkthrough texturing that wrench too 🙏

smart UV-project and procedural texturing my beloved

Thanks for the tutorial, it's so nice to see methods actually used in production. I think have a minor correction though, at 3:00 I think you mean 'if angles are acute enough meaning 90 degrees or less' because the more obtuse the angle the more it approaches a flat surface

You sir deserve a medal for this tutorial. I dreaded UV unwrapping and have 2 models pending to be UV unwrapped. I'll use your technique to work on them. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. Now I finally have UVPackmaster and use your techniques makes uv mapping in Blender much easier.

Thank you for all your great videos, helps a lot.

i just finished the video. and im pretty happy with that!

Fantastic tutorial ❤

I just wanna say you have a very nice wrench

thank for sharing such tutorial

Nice video mate. I normally change the method of Pick shortest path to "Seam" instead of "select"

your blender theme is hawt

nice vid, i have no idea why i watched this bc i don't know anything about 3D modeling but it was probably very helpful

For the faces, you can just select your faces and then use ZenUV Alt+U mark in Face mode to add seams in the edges. I personally think it's faster, but I can understand if you like the way you do in the video more. Some times is not about how fast you make something, but the journey to get to the result x)

I have always hated UV unwrapping, and have mostly done pretty stylized stuff in Blender to avoid unwrapping as much as possible. But lately, i have started to get a better hang of it, and even having a bit of fun doing it?! This video came out at the perfect time for me, I'm actually excited to try some of the things I learned in this video!

Unintentional ASMR

Excellent.

Hey Pilgrim! I am one of the people who tend to have a hard time with UVs & this is a fantastic tutorial. I see that you have Hardops installed & I am curious when (and if) you utilize the Sharpen + Seam combo that can be enabled in the Hops helper tool for marking seams automatically. I would also love to see a follow-up video to how you would continue the baking & texturing process after this UV step is completed. Thanks!

I also lessen the pain of UVing by putting seams during modelling. This turns the UV fase more into a UV fixup fase. And it also helps that if i duplicate parts, they are already seamed and in a similar way.

awesome video. for some reason i thought it was just impossible to get a solid uv after a model was triangulated lmao i’m brain dead. thanks for makin this

Amazing

Select border around faces.. OMG. Thank you for that..

Well I still hate it but at least I can do it properly now, thanks for the incredibly informative video!

If you use C instead of box selection and then shift with click-drag, you can remove those selected edges *way* quicker. Hope that helps!

Absolute hero. Always appreciate your tutorials. I wonder why you didn't just automirror some of the objects when you unwrapped them? Would have been an even faster workflow.

Bro where can I find photos or textures from WorkBench 3

I'm not a beginner by any means here, I know how to UV pretty well for game assets but, I think It would help a lot if you would provide that wrench model's download link under the description for beginners to follow along Thomas! When I started with UVs it was incredibly hard for me to grasp the fundamental understanding of how paperwrap's analogy applies to 3D modeling when Unwrapping. I think beginners should start unwrapping basic cylinders, cubes, extruded cubes and cones beveled cylinders, etc. Then follow along with this video. it would give them a clear understanding of how UVs work!

I see, that makes sense. *uses project from view from front orthographic*

I enjoy it! hahahaha :D

This is really fantastic, so simple but so many nice little tips. How far do you reckon you could get through this process with just the standard blender setup? I see theres a few UV based add ons in your workflow.

what I need is a "how to not suck at skinning" video.

Btw, did you know that instead of using a hard edge, you can use a bevel with hardened normals? Performance-wise, in terms of game rendering, they have the same cost. Since hard edges also split the vertices, and the extra faces in between don't add extra surface area. But it will look miles more realistic, since no surface in the real world has sharp edges. Since I discovered this technique, I've never used sharp edges since... and it's a subtle but very significant improvement to the realism of stuff that I made. And I'm looking forward to the improved bevel modifier that will come to blender this year, to improve the process of setting them up even more.

Bro where can I find photos or textures from WorkBench 3 PLSSSSSS

Where can we get the uvtoolkit? And is it usable on blender 4.0?

Is there a way to save the uv pack master setting permantaly?

Is there a way to achieve this clean and dense looking UVMap for a character

My goodness this would take me 3days

Won’t you get shading issues with topology like that?

wow. how did you make choose theme in blender? i really like yours, could you please guide me how to do it

does this process change with an organic mesh? I have no idea where to start putting on seams when the mesh is a human head

Are there any addons apart from the ones visible in the video that you're using? If it's not too big of a hassle to share? :D

Tip to speed up the workflow significantly: select one edge that has 90° or similar, hit Shift + G (select similar) and chose face angle. You can play with the threshold to select more or less. That way, you already have all the hard edges selected. Saves a ton of time, especially for parts like 3:30. Enjoy :)

what theme is that? might it be gruvbox dark ?

Hello, thank you for this great tutorial. I'd like to ask you should we always triangulate our meshes? or quads and ngons are okay? Can you explain this please, I would be really appreciated.

Hm, so every hard edge needs a split regardless of it actually needs it for correct straightening out? I remember hearing a while ago that it is actually _bad_ if your model has many UV cuts, and you should try to have as few islands as you can get away with instead, is that not a case anymore?

plz upload full texturing tutorila

unwrapping is easy, but packing a ton of small islands in a way that makes sense and also keeping its texels to standard is daunting

What is that theme? Or are you just using a low blue light setting?

for the UVs, you run stuff like ZEN UV or rizomUV outside of tutorials?

How do you get such a high texel density?

How I enjoy it: You know tetris? Yeah, UV is like that, except that the lines wont go off and you'll lose. But when you lose, you actually won.

Are you using some UV-related plugins here or is it just the standard toolkit Blender comes with by default?

May I ask which addon is Eazy Game Dev Tools ?

What uv tools addon are you using?

Hey, got question, can you make video about bevel modifier and UV's?

If you are so diligent about seaming edges beyond a certain angle, why not first do a selection based on faces angle?

or just click clear custom split normals

Any reason you don't have any hard edges before doing UVs?

uv editing such a pain because it doesn't have addon like Loop Tools

The first step is already too much for me. xD

Use "select mirror" my fren. dont do it again manually

why are u doing this ?? please upload new videos on a weekly basis, then jump to weekly 2 videos. love from India

Some people choose to suck, me? I'm not trying to. My mouth is sore.

UV unwrapping is only boring. In all my years of doing it, it's always been boring, and mindless.

Buddy are you sick or is your kid sleeping next to you and you don't want to wake him/her up? Becasue your voice is so delicate almost like you're afraid to speak at all. I don't mean to be mean. You're doing a great job for the community. All the best.

How to not suck at uv unwrapping: Step 1: Get addons. Step 2: Get even more addons. : /

Answer to video title is - dont use Blender. UV toolset is so bad that u have a feeling its non existant.

Bro where can I find photos or textures from WorkBench 3

Bro where can I find photos or textures from WorkBench 3

Bro where can I find photos or textures from WorkBench 3