Unwrapping challenge :D

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What you win ?

errrr… my eternal respect and admiration XD ( and mebe the one from lotsa ppl in BA :stuck_out_tongue: )

here’s my problem:

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i need to unwrap this.
It’s nothing but a ( stoopid ) triangle strip.
As all of youy know it, blender it just unable to properly unwrap this to someting like a quad band.

And that’s just what i’d want.

By hand ? i use to do it :slight_smile:

tris → quads
unwrap a quad
and unwrap → follow active quads
then…
quads to tris ( with CTRL+T ) as i need the tris to be explicit ( for importing on another tool )

now does anyone know a better and more efficient way to do this in blender ?

thanks in advance and happy blending ! :slight_smile:

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You already described the way i would go for it. If it has still no good rectangular shape, i would use the rectify and align functions from Textools.

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awww too bad !!! i hoped there was an addon ( okay we all dream of it :stuck_out_tongue: ) with the button ‘Unwrap my mess juslikiwant’ XD

I guess that unwrapping needs hand work for those unusual thingies :confused:

hmmm textools you say ?

never heard about this… but you triggered my curiosity :stuck_out_tongue:

thanks @Xortag :slight_smile: and happy blending !