Great beginner lessons. I find it very helpful that you not only explain the "how" but the "why". It is rare to see someone so talented also have a gift for teaching their subject of expertise.
@@Marhoektube Whatever edge, vertex or face selection you already have, doing CTRL+E will bring the Edge menu. (Same goes for vertex menu with CTRL+V.... And Face menu with CTRL+F)
@@ramajagadeesan2550 Unless you need a specific placement of your material, you can use smart uv. In my opinion, this only works when you have a procedural material (seams will be less visible). Manual marking is used when you need to hide the seam, or when you want a specific placement of your material (thus, playing with the uv editor).
I've tried watching other tutorials, but I just got confused and left behind. Zach does a great job at explaining things so a beginner can understand. Best tutorial I've worked with so far, 10/10. Thank you!
I've seen various introductory videos in recent years. This series is the best I know. Well structured, great step-by-step explanation, easy to understand, easy to follow.
I started to follow this course about a week ago and must admit I can’t get rid of that Bob Ross vibes when I listen to your explanation :D I mean you sound so cosy and soothing, it seems like every possible issue can and will be solved anyway. Thank you so much for this course!
I think it's very good that you not only show the proceeding, but also the desciption for it. Its much easier really to understand the procedure. Great job!
Finally a clear, concise and thorough explanation of UV unwrapping, I finally got it, I love your tutorial and the methodical and logical way you explain things.
You ARE amazing, thank you so much! I've been all over the various Blender video tutorials for a problem I was having with the uv editor scene, you not only sorted that out for me, but I discovered other misunderstandings!
Thank you so much, Zach, as a newb to animation, I'm thrilled that you're taking the time to be very thorough, precise and clear in your instructions. I also like the fact that you're working in the latest solid version of Blender as that's the one we're using in school. Now that I used and understood this tutorial of yours, I'll go back and start from the beginning to better understand modeling and UV maps.
I've followed umpteen tutorials on Blender, but never have a learned so much, so easy and so quickly. Congratulations, Zach. I'm looking forward for some new material!
If anyone is having issues with UV maps not showing for items that should already have them in the UV editor (for example the fabric) it's because you need to hit the UV Sync Selection button (The 2 arrows) at the top left of the UV editor window. EDIT: I'm a little further into the video now and this button is actually covered but if you have this on earlier it will fix it if the UV map isn't showing at the point of selection.
Painted an entire object, took a day to do it and some parts were so messy because of stretched UVs. When my friend unwrapped the same mesh in Maya it was so clean. Today I learned the importance of applying mesh scale before unwrapping. Would have saved me A LOT of time.
For all of you having problems "finding" the island selection in the UV-Editor... Just use the Face-Selection-Mode, hoover over the island and press "L".
The island select wont show if the "UV Sync Selection" (two arrows button in top left corner) is enabled. Disable it first then make sure everything is selected. Zach disables it at 6:32.
Heyy! Thanks for this tutorial. A lot of videos out there have missing details and I appreciate that u explained every function in detail for this particular tool. I could now better visualise how and what edges to select for my product. Its all about practicing now. Thanks again!!!
If anyone like me, modeled something from a base, which did not have a default UV-map, Just select your model, open the UV-editor, go in editor mode. You can only see the UV-map in the UV-editor after selecting the model (adding seams if you want) and then pressing UV and unwrap as he does in at 10:40 .
Zach, first of all, I thank you and CG boost for bringing this awesome tutorial. this is the best way to learn for the beginner. I have completed all 5 parts and in this tutorial when I try to unwrap the knife in UV editor all the parts were not in the same way as yours look like I see only one line and everything scrambled on that. I even checked the scale it seems to be correct also, Please suggest me what to do. Thank you.
Thanks Zach, the apply scale thing saved me, couldn't unwrap a table properly and the proportions in the uv editor were way off and I simply couldn't figure out why, but after this tutorial I was able to fix it:)
Video ends: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! - Notification: New video about donut on Blender GURU: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Kinda sums up my whole week so far 😁
THANK YOU!!! I was just able to unwrap a low poly hand that was making me SOOO frustrated!!! I have spent since this weekend practicing unwrapping things and trying to align textures to them. Things I did wrong. Somehow marked as sharp instead of marking as seam. Also if I do a low angle UV project it would separate all UV faces and then you can't select a single vertice (even though merge by distance was done b4 the unwrap)... this is just as bad as learning to code (at least now I know how to code basic stuff) BUT the learning curve Hurts!!! Thanks for taking some of that hurt away.
Hello ^^ Ye it isn't directly explained in Blender but he explains it in fact in the "UV unwrapping explained" part. To guess where put the seams you need to think which edges would be in fact cut if you made the model with one or many paper folders. In the "UV unwrapping explained" part of this video you can see a very commun yet effective example, the 2D pattern for a 3D cube. However sure there isn't always one way to do the pattern as for a cube pattern and in general a seam can be spottable so you need to figure out also edges that aren't much visible or in front or are in a logical place between different kind of material/stuff painted inside the texture where anyway there is a strict difference. For a t-shirt you don't put the seams on the front, you put them on the sides ^^ So looking a cloths patern or paper patterns for 3D objects can help seing how it is done. I would also advice you to give a look at Blender Guru channel in plus of this actual channel, he got a serie of videos specially showing variant cases of objects to unwrap correctly to also be able to adapt to more complexe models by yourself :)
@@ze_reaper Hello, thanks so much for your answer ! I understand better now..still a little surprised about no rationnal method, just a feeling thing...but I need maybe to practice to improve this..thks again for your explanations, I appreciate 👍
Put it where you can imagine a "Seam". You want things to be flat so ask yourself, where should you cut if you want it to be flat? Hope it helps, otherwise just search on youtube how to uv unrwap blender.
How do I make 2 UV islands that are exactly the same (2 shoes) only one UV island, so that I in Photoshop, GIMP etc. only have to do half the work? I want to texture a pair of shoes, by only having to texture 1 shoe. Like a mirror.
7:00 but how do you scale without them being the same as the object? And when would you want to do this. Also in 3ds max you can chose the orientation of the UV, on the XYZ, and even the object shape, is there a way to do this in blender?
i have build a house model where all the components have different scale. what do i do ? i dont want to mess up my model by making everything the same scale.
after doing his first few i tried my own hand at sculpting free hand finally, while no where near done i feel more confident. I got a face that i am happy with but am still struggling with shaping arms and hands.
Bro i have a specific problem with uv unwrap. I want to model a pos display stand which i will manufacture. Once i model it ibwant to be able to uv unwrap it in the way it is going to be manufactured. Like a kld. I have seen tour videos they work for simple boxes but i am confused how to unwrap a complex pos display stand. Can you help?
i just imported .stl files from inventor to blender hopefully i dind't need to edit the shape, so i just need to edit the animation, but why i can't make uv unwrap for the object? or because this is stl files?
At 3:48, you selected the apple and an extended menu with the double arrows popped up on the left pane. Mine did not change at all. How can I activate that toolbar?
He used projection texture painting. By projecting the Apple over top of the model, and using their Projection Painting tool, it automatically paints it onto the right spots. Pretty cool.
@@cgboost Nice one, Egon. And how would one go about getting the apple skin texture to blend well when you have those leaf-shaped islands in the UV editor?
Question ok I have a node set up so when I go to UV edit my UVs are aready set so how can I export everything because its already done as in saving my textures with my OBJ
4:10 when you deselect everything for me nothing happens the Uvs don’t show even when everything is selected. A lot of people are saying to turn on UV sync selection but when I do that it shows the Uvs now but when I want to deselect from the apple it still shows the Uvs like it doesn’t change and when I select new Vertices from the apple it selects them but it also shows the Uvs as well like it didn’t clear anything could you help me?
Hi, thanks for your comment, it's hard to say what's happening without screenshots or seeing the file. You can post your file under this video on our website or in our community community.cgboost.com/home or send it via mail to support@cgboost.com ~ Masha
Question: Is it possible to change the selected vertexes to that blue that you have instead of the default yellow? Or is that a different version of Blender or something?
Great video. But you kind of ended the video exactly where I need help at ha. So once you've unwrapped things what's the next step? You are uv painting, how do you do that? And if it were say a repeating texture how would you then work with that and your newly unwrapped patterns? In other words how then do you actually apply the color or texture.
could you guys do a video for a Blender > Substance Painter workflow ? 1topic on which there is allot of confusion is "smoothing groups" and the principle of "hard edges > seams". Blender handles this part a bit different then other applications!
@@cgboost Hu weird, i thought it was odd that it was not a thing, it does not work at all for me, if i have something selected only way to deslect is to touch another object its really infuriating weirdly haha
@@serenity8839 Have you maybe enabled the "Industry Standard" key map? In general, you can reset Blender by going to "File > Defaults > Load Factory Settings". Maybe try that and see if it works. If so and you want to keep the default, go again to "File > Defaults > Save Startup File". Also, you can use Alt + A or A + A to deselect everything.
@@cgboost yer after a reinstall it appears to work fine now, even with all the same add ons on! Might have been the case id accidentally switched something when testing around trying to get my tablet to work in Blender who knows haha. Ill keep this in mind though if it happenes again!
Does he just use photoshop to add the texture? And it be so helpful if you showed what keys you pressed cause I didn’t know how to do something’s you did like to see if my stuff is up to scale or not
We are adding the textures in Blender, but I used Photoshop to prepare some of the textures. This can also be done in free tools like Krita. You can see the keys I press in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Great beginner lessons. I find it very helpful that you not only explain the "how" but the "why". It is rare to see someone so talented also have a gift for teaching their subject of expertise.
HELP when i apply scae to the knife blade it does a weird shape
this video convinced me to try out your courses. first person to actually explain this whole UV thing clearly for a total beginner.
5:24 In order to "mark seam", make sure you have the "edge seleted" (middle box on the top, on the right of Edit mode. Or just press "2".
@@Marhoektube Whatever edge, vertex or face selection you already have, doing CTRL+E will bring the Edge menu.
(Same goes for vertex menu with CTRL+V.... And Face menu with CTRL+F)
Thank you!!!
thx babe
@@Cyber_Kriss will what is difference while rendering using smart uv and mannual by marking seem ?
@@ramajagadeesan2550 Unless you need a specific placement of your material, you can use smart uv. In my opinion, this only works when you have a procedural material (seams will be less visible).
Manual marking is used when you need to hide the seam, or when you want a specific placement of your material (thus, playing with the uv editor).
I've tried watching other tutorials, but I just got confused and left behind. Zach does a great job at explaining things so a beginner can understand. Best tutorial I've worked with so far, 10/10. Thank you!
I appreciate that!
I've seen various introductory videos in recent years. This series is the best I know. Well structured, great step-by-step explanation, easy to understand, easy to follow.
zach your tutorials are always the best. you never forget anything and always make it easy to follow
I started to follow this course about a week ago and must admit I can’t get rid of that Bob Ross vibes when I listen to your explanation :D
I mean you sound so cosy and soothing, it seems like every possible issue can and will be solved anyway.
Thank you so much for this course!
I think it's very good that you not only show the proceeding, but also the desciption for it. Its much easier really to understand the procedure. Great job!
Finally a clear, concise and thorough explanation of UV unwrapping, I finally got it, I love your tutorial and the methodical and logical way you explain things.
You ARE amazing, thank you so much! I've been all over the various Blender video tutorials for a problem I was having with the uv editor scene, you not only sorted that out for me, but I discovered other misunderstandings!
Thank you so much, Zach, as a newb to animation, I'm thrilled that you're taking the time to be very thorough, precise and clear in your instructions. I also like the fact that you're working in the latest solid version of Blender as that's the one we're using in school. Now that I used and understood this tutorial of yours, I'll go back and start from the beginning to better understand modeling and UV maps.
HELP when i apply scae to the knife blade it does a weird shape
I've followed umpteen tutorials on Blender, but never have a learned so much, so easy and so quickly. Congratulations, Zach. I'm looking forward for some new material!
If anyone is having issues with UV maps not showing for items that should already have them in the UV editor (for example the fabric) it's because you need to hit the UV Sync Selection button (The 2 arrows) at the top left of the UV editor window.
EDIT: I'm a little further into the video now and this button is actually covered but if you have this on earlier it will fix it if the UV map isn't showing at the point of selection.
5:00 to skip basic UV explanation.
In case anyone else is like me, already familiar with UV maps and just want to know how it's done in Blender.
gut
Painted an entire object, took a day to do it and some parts were so messy because of stretched UVs. When my friend unwrapped the same mesh in Maya it was so clean.
Today I learned the importance of applying mesh scale before unwrapping. Would have saved me A LOT of time.
We appreciate your time! Thank you for your devotion to the cause!
I've been using blender for about a year now but I still learned so much from this series
Best "Good Morning" I've ever had in my life.
For all of you having problems "finding" the island selection in the UV-Editor...
Just use the Face-Selection-Mode, hoover over the island and press "L".
The island select wont show if the "UV Sync Selection" (two arrows button in top left corner) is enabled. Disable it first then make sure everything is selected. Zach disables it at 6:32.
@@jeffrimko Thanks heavens for sharp eyed commentators, struggled with that one. Thanks.
@@jeffrimko , bless you for pointing this out.
Experienced users do stuff w/o even thinking of it, it's hard to give every. Single. Step.
One of the best tutorial series 👍
one of the best series . Just fantastic!!!
It's ok if I say I love you? Thank you so much! You saved my day! Now I understand correctly the basics of UV mapping. Great tutorial!
Heyy! Thanks for this tutorial. A lot of videos out there have missing details and I appreciate that u explained every function in detail for this particular tool. I could now better visualise how and what edges to select for my product. Its all about practicing now. Thanks again!!!
Fantastic, @CG Boost. Really good tutorial and so easy to understand. Thank you!
If anyone like me, modeled something from a base, which did not have a default UV-map, Just select your model, open the UV-editor, go in editor mode. You can only see the UV-map in the UV-editor after selecting the model (adding seams if you want) and then pressing UV and unwrap as he does in at 10:40 .
wow!! nice work with the time stamps.
Wow the quality of these tutorials is so high. Keep up the good work :)
Thank you so much! Very clear and understandable. I wish you nothing but success!
THANK YOU for mentioning the UV Sync Selection button right away --- that whole "invisible UVs" thing was KILLING ME.
Very clear instructions! Love your videos man 😍❤️
great video Zach! As Always!
Zach, first of all, I thank you and CG boost for bringing this awesome tutorial. this is the best way to learn for the beginner. I have completed all 5 parts and in this tutorial when I try to unwrap the knife in UV editor all the parts were not in the same way as yours look like I see only one line and everything scrambled on that. I even checked the scale it seems to be correct also, Please suggest me what to do. Thank you.
Thanks Zach, the apply scale thing saved me, couldn't unwrap a table properly and the proportions in the uv editor were way off and I simply couldn't figure out why, but after this tutorial I was able to fix it:)
best of the best,explained perfectly for anyone useing blender 2.8 and above. very good thank you x
Video ends: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! - Notification: New video about donut on Blender GURU: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Kinda sums up my whole week so far 😁
Have you forgotten the donuts Pietro Chiovaro made 😁?
Don't forget CG Geek's Ice cream.
@@mugichan521 Oh yeah, Blender cooks don 't stop pleasing us.
This was way easier to follow than the official blender tutorial jajaja thank you!
Very clear to understand ! Genius
THANK YOU!!! I was just able to unwrap a low poly hand that was making me SOOO frustrated!!! I have spent since this weekend practicing unwrapping things and trying to align textures to them. Things I did wrong. Somehow marked as sharp instead of marking as seam. Also if I do a low angle UV project it would separate all UV faces and then you can't select a single vertice (even though merge by distance was done b4 the unwrap)... this is just as bad as learning to code (at least now I know how to code basic stuff) BUT the learning curve Hurts!!! Thanks for taking some of that hurt away.
great tutorials, tried some before, but this tuts work really fine :) THX :) :)
It was very hard to find the textures for the apple and the knife so maybe you could make a video about how to download the textures etc.
you are simply an Excellent teacher. Thanks
Thank you so mucchhhhh Cg Boost we love you :)
Great tutorial, liked it
I was hoping for 2.81 to add texel density, rectify because this is so important in hard surface. any news for the improvement on unwrapping in 2.81?
god save the seams jesus christ i was using blender-s automatic unwrapping and had no idea where to start with the mess it created thank you so much!
How can i change the color of the thing that is oringe in general when i select something in edit mode?? I like it more blue
So very helpful. Thank you.
I watched many vidéos about UV Unwrapping, and I still don't get "how to choose the edge to mark as seam" any tips ??? HUGE THANKS
Hello ^^ Ye it isn't directly explained in Blender but he explains it in fact in the "UV unwrapping explained" part.
To guess where put the seams you need to think which edges would be in fact cut if you made the model with one or many paper folders. In the "UV unwrapping explained" part of this video you can see a very commun yet effective example, the 2D pattern for a 3D cube.
However sure there isn't always one way to do the pattern as for a cube pattern and in general a seam can be spottable so you need to figure out also edges that aren't much visible or in front or are in a logical place between different kind of material/stuff painted inside the texture where anyway there is a strict difference. For a t-shirt you don't put the seams on the front, you put them on the sides ^^
So looking a cloths patern or paper patterns for 3D objects can help seing how it is done.
I would also advice you to give a look at Blender Guru channel in plus of this actual channel, he got a serie of videos specially showing variant cases of objects to unwrap correctly to also be able to adapt to more complexe models by yourself :)
@@ze_reaper Hello, thanks so much for your answer ! I understand better now..still a little surprised about no rationnal method, just a feeling thing...but I need maybe to practice to improve this..thks again for your explanations, I appreciate 👍
same he says right click but then you select an edge
хорошо, что в TH-cam есть функция перевода субтитров на русский.
Очень полезные видео!!!
Great series
But i dont get how do you know where to seam on the apple
It will be very helpful if you will answer.
Thanks!
Put it where you can imagine a "Seam". You want things to be flat so ask yourself, where should you cut if you want it to be flat?
Hope it helps, otherwise just search on youtube how to uv unrwap blender.
Excellent tutorial :)
do you need to retopologize before uv unwrapping?
How do I make 2 UV islands that are exactly the same (2 shoes) only one UV island, so that I in Photoshop, GIMP etc. only have to do half the work? I want to texture a pair of shoes, by only having to texture 1 shoe. Like a mirror.
7:00 but how do you scale without them being the same as the object? And when would you want to do this.
Also in 3ds max you can chose the orientation of the UV, on the XYZ, and even the object shape, is there a way to do this in blender?
Very gooooood thank you 🎻🌹
i have build a house model where all the components have different scale. what do i do ? i dont want to mess up my model by making everything the same scale.
is there any "relax tool" for removing strech in the uv like the one which we have in sculpting?
Yes, look for the hand icon in the toolbar. "T".
~Egon
i heard you shouldkeep the islans as one? is this prefernce or just better?
I cant even get the texture in the UV editor mode and 'tap into edit mode' doesnt help me at all
after doing his first few i tried my own hand at sculpting free hand finally, while no where near done i feel more confident. I
got a face that i am happy with but am still struggling with shaping arms and hands.
If anyone's objects get messed up when they apply scale, try applying all of the modifiers first.
Amazing man you've helped me out alot
Bro i have a specific problem with uv unwrap. I want to model a pos display stand which i will manufacture. Once i model it ibwant to be able to uv unwrap it in the way it is going to be manufactured. Like a kld. I have seen tour videos they work for simple boxes but i am confused how to unwrap a complex pos display stand. Can you help?
Is the material important or does it come later?
i just imported .stl files from inventor to blender hopefully i dind't need to edit the shape, so i just need to edit the animation, but why i can't make uv unwrap for the object? or because this is stl files?
At 3:48, you selected the apple and an extended menu with the double arrows popped up on the left pane. Mine did not change at all. How can I activate that toolbar?
First you need to have UV editor selected in the left pane. Then the sync icon (double arrow) will appear.
~Egon
there are also uv options in uv window that automatically try and fill as much space with each island while keeping each one in simmilair scale
dope sheet dood
Int the drops item, maybe u forgot to put receive transparente on, because it creating a shadow not transparente in apple material.
I'm wandering how to make procedural texture of inner part of an apple so you could cut it in any part you want
This just makes me wonder how you managed to get the textures which hide those seams so well.
He used projection texture painting. By projecting the Apple over top of the model, and using their Projection Painting tool, it automatically paints it onto the right spots. Pretty cool.
my seams are still a bit noticeable on the textured apples though.
11:20 what would make the water droplets on the apples turn black? Wrong ior?
Screen space refraction in the apple's material.
~Egon
@@cgboost Nice one, Egon. And how would one go about getting the apple skin texture to blend well when you have those leaf-shaped islands in the UV editor?
Great thank you it’s much more easy than i thought to UV unwrap objects but you explain it all good of course :)
HELP when i apply scae to the knife blade it does a weird shape
Great video! Big thanks!
I love it! Cant wait for my apple setup to look like your beginning render!
Best tutorial ever!!!!
Nice work
The UV pattern for my knife blade is just a single dot, what do i do?
Have you added the seams and the unwrapped the knife blade? Make sure to select all faces in Edit Mode before unwrapping.
CG Boost got it, thanks!
I know I'm very bad with UVing but why you don't apply the sub modifier before unwrapping that handle o_o?
to keep a decent topology in terms of memory I guess
Question ok I have a node set up so when I go to UV edit my UVs are aready set so how can I export everything because its already done as in saving my textures with my OBJ
awesome course!
4:10 when you deselect everything for me nothing happens the Uvs don’t show even when everything is selected. A lot of people are saying to turn on UV sync selection but when I do that it shows the Uvs now but when I want to deselect from the apple it still shows the Uvs like it doesn’t change and when I select new Vertices from the apple it selects them but it also shows the Uvs as well like it didn’t clear anything could you help me?
Hi, thanks for your comment, it's hard to say what's happening without screenshots or seeing the file. You can post your file under this video on our website or in our community community.cgboost.com/home or send it via mail to support@cgboost.com
~ Masha
@@cgboost ok thank you 😁
Very nicely explained please upload lighting if it is possible for Bethune artists
Question: Is it possible to change the selected vertexes to that blue that you have instead of the default yellow? Or is that a different version of Blender or something?
Great video. But you kind of ended the video exactly where I need help at ha. So once you've unwrapped things what's the next step? You are uv painting, how do you do that? And if it were say a repeating texture how would you then work with that and your newly unwrapped patterns? In other words how then do you actually apply the color or texture.
Well, this is a multipart series, just continue here: th-cam.com/video/lmbAs9jE1vI/w-d-xo.html
@@cgboost oh that's great thanks! Sorry didn't realize it was from a series that's my bad 🙂
thanks for sharing!
Great! thanks!
7:32 the middle bottom island has a face that is not filled. Does that matter?
It is only visually different (lighter color) in this color theme ( it is active selected face).
~Egon
could you guys do a video for a Blender > Substance Painter workflow ? 1topic on which there is allot of confusion is "smoothing groups" and the principle of "hard edges > seams". Blender handles this part a bit different then other applications!
0:31 Are you a Great Scott! fan too?
who you select everything?
Thanks, helped me create a uv mask. Now on to try and texture with it.
i love your color theme for selecting objects, is your theme avilable anywhere?
super helpful, much appreciated
Help! my fabric doesnt have any uv wrap, how? i clicked it and goes to edit mode, no uv wrap on it...
nvm, silly me. i got unselected those nodes so uv wrap gone xD
4:08 wait how did you deselect like that? i love that with Maya but for me in Blender it wont deselect is that an addon?
No, this works by default. Maybe you have a different tool selected in the Toolbar on the left?
@@cgboost Hu weird, i thought it was odd that it was not a thing, it does not work at all for me, if i have something selected only way to deslect is to touch another object its really infuriating weirdly haha
@@serenity8839 Have you maybe enabled the "Industry Standard" key map? In general, you can reset Blender by going to "File > Defaults > Load Factory Settings". Maybe try that and see if it works. If so and you want to keep the default, go again to "File > Defaults > Save Startup File". Also, you can use Alt + A or A + A to deselect everything.
@@cgboost yer after a reinstall it appears to work fine now, even with all the same add ons on! Might have been the case id accidentally switched something when testing around trying to get my tablet to work in Blender who knows haha. Ill keep this in mind though if it happenes again!
Does he just use photoshop to add the texture? And it be so helpful if you showed what keys you pressed cause I didn’t know how to do something’s you did like to see if my stuff is up to scale or not
We are adding the textures in Blender, but I used Photoshop to prepare some of the textures. This can also be done in free tools like Krita. You can see the keys I press in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Great tutorial. Thank you. However, I hope Blender should simplified this complex process in a future update.