Audi R18 2012 - Wip (no release)

isn't i theoretically possible to export your model to Mudbox, do the Decal-Painting like this (watch from 6:20 onwards):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhgR00JsFSU
and reimport everything to 3ds max!?

 

My problem is to provide the best UV map to painter, not to paint directly the skin on the model

But..dunno, maybe mudbox can output an UV map after painting the skin on the car body?

 

did you read my post?
i talked about modelling in 3ds and only exporting to mudbox for the painting, which has to be a very good developed feature in mudbox.
the different Autodesk products have their very specific strengths, and why not use various of those products to do your work!?
And btw.: Mudbox is also Poly-Modelling and is used by car designers to build first models, like Claydesign Models...

 

any news?

 

It was a pretty busy weeks and had only today for working on my baby

This is the UV map at this point...you think it's gonna be ok or still something to fix?
View attachment 2579

Thanks guys

 

That wont do, you need to map it to a 2048 x 2048 square and use all of the uv space and leave about 4 pixels inbetween each uv island.

 

Something like this?

View attachment 2581

or this?

View attachment 2582

 

Try and keep everything lined up so that a painter just has to cut and slide things up and down to move things to other parts. and try and keep all the body parts the same size, so if you have to resize one part, make sure to resize them all.

That uv mapping in my previous post is very busy, thats the one from the makign of nismo tutorial, this one here is a bit thinner,
I just started unwrapping this today and its still missing a few bits, but it's a good example because it is easier to see how you want the car lined up.

 

oh ye, this is definitely a perfect uv i'll try to fix mine but i'm a bit in trouble with all that pieces

Btw thanks for help man, really appreciate.

 

Far from perfect , but thanks and your welcome, good luck!

 

Here a third attempt

View attachment 2584

 

Best one so far. This kind of cars are really troublesome when comes to UV maps

Just pay attention to this kind of errors:



This thing is supposed to be easy to paint on. Misplaced, compressed or bent polygons don't help

 

That's good, I don't think you could get it any better than that considering the funny curves it has. Now (after you fix up what KS pointed out) you want to start filling in the rest of the spaces with things like the underside, the headlights and taillights, the engine, suspension, wiper's etc, basically anything that is on the outside of the car that does not require transparency. These other parts don't have to be to scale because they aren't part of the main body, you just need to find a place for them where you can make them as big as possible.

 

Thanks for your help guys

Last fixes and then I'll send it to painter

 

BTW try to provide textures for headlights/taillights as big as possible. There are often a lot of details on those parts; when missing - significantly affects overall result.

 

Yes, headlights at 4096x4096 pixels is a must. That the biggest the plugins will allow without throwing up an error message.
There is a workaround if you wish to go for 8192x or bigger textures though, use a smaller one for exporting and just throw in the bigger one once the .gmt has been created. The sim doesn't mind, only the plugins.

 

Really?!? 4096px for headlights? Are you kidding me?

 

I think 512 for single light cover is enough