Need some help with UV mapping in vertex modifier.

[Stanakin]

Hello there.

I need some help with making a wrap in vertex modifier.
I made a mouse droid model:

And here's the UV-map:

As you can see, the front, back and top are ugly because they don't have their own part in the UV-map. If I try to take those parts apart, though, it takes points from other parts of the model and streches them as well. Anyone know how to get the front, back and top apart from the sides in the UV-map?

I hope I've managed to make myself clear.

Thank you.

 

[PROXY]

Hey.

My methode for this is, getting Mdlivs (if you haven't it already) take the streched parts and detach them as a new geoset. (the green ball splitted) Then view your model from the front (still in Mdlivs) and select the streched geoset. go into UV editor and remap the texture. now you can unwrap the streched part again, so it isn'T streched and isn't swayed by the other part of the model. When you finished, go to Vertex editor again and merge the geosets togehter again.

Hope this helps.

 

[JokeMaster]

Yeah using mdl vis to make uv mapping is a lot better.

 

[Stanakin]

Thank you.

Too bad I can't get mdlvis to work on either my laptop or computer. I downloaded it from Wacraft Unlimited and when I try to start the .exe it says it can't find storm.dll and it doesn't work..

 

[PROXY]

ah, that's simple. just search your pc for storm.dll and copy it then in your mdlivs order.

Hope that helps =)

 

[Deolrin]

To strengthen what Fan and JokeMaster said, Vertex Modifier is definitely NOT recommended for wrapping completely new unwraps. On the other side it is quite useful to edit existing wraps, for example rewrap a footman's chest to a spellbreaker's chest or so.

 

[NhazUl]

Yeah, Vertex Modifier does better when you switch similar textures (arthas/undead arthas for example) where the wraps are similar but differently stretched. For example the death knight's face wrap is horizontally squished and is better adjusted to human Arthas' texture with Vertex Modifier. However, for models like yours, Mdlvis is way better.