Vid: Uv Mapping a Model

This is a fast sketchup in blender for unwrapping.

http://www.gorilla3d.com/wip/unwrap-xvid.avi

Its going to be redone, I just need to know if there are anyparts people get lost at.

so far comments on:
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–Box Selecting
–Face Mode

I am using the CVS version since it comes with paint tools and you can make new images without loading on in.

Great I don’t know anything about unwrapping in blender so I will let you know how it goes from a clean slate.

Thanx for taking the time making this tutorial.I’m learning a new way of UV Mapping.
My only comment is,if you decide to redo the vid,try a difrent mic or add a foam to it.When you breath to hard or cough,it blows out my speakers.The quality of the Vid itself isnt bad,but it’s dificult to see what window your in at times.
Anyway,Great tut and thanx for sharing,I really apreciate it…

not a bad tutorial, but…

  1. you move thru the menu a little too quickly

  2. you don’t expain in full detail everything you do

  3. video quality needs to be slightly improved

If you slow it down a bit, people who don’t know anything about UV will understand it better. I use FRAPS when i need to make a recording like you’ve got. It was well worth the 25 dollars, or whatever it cost me.

Thanks for the Tut

Slow your cpu by factor 10 and then run the video in fullscreen and have a quake3 running on the background, it will sure slow down! :stuck_out_tongue:

Nice work. It’s definitely intresting.

As you stated that you’ll redo the video, I’ll add some ciritiques and recommendations. I hope it’s not too late for that yet.

My fist observation is that as already stated the the you set your fonts too small - it is way to blurred to make out what you do.
Try using a setup as if you were doing a presentation on a beamer or something. Enlarge your fonts and maximize the display area. Ie hide away your taskbar. In the video tutorials already present on the blender site, the author maximizes the tools window when he introduces a new tool, to show where it’s located. I think that’s a good idea. Also you could use a different colour scheme which features better contrasts in order for the selected parts and pressed buttons are clearer visible.

The second part is that you leave your microphone always on. Please eighter get a tool which can mute the microphone by using a keyboard shortcut. Or otherwise please post process the audio track.

The next thing is that it is really obvious that you are doing something you haven’t done before. You regularly search around for fucntions and end up doing hasty switching between the modes and such. Please avoid that. The best idea, even if it gives you a little more overhead is to shoot the tutorial a few times. This way even if you forget something or screw it up, you have a backup. You can always cut and edit the video. You should use that technique. Maybe you should even go as far as to divide the whole shoot into sections and produce it movie like. Ie if you screw up a section, shoot it again until you are satisfied or until you have enough material to cut and edit it in a satisfying way.

Another flaw in the tutorial are the explanations you give. They are too few. If you use a key shortcut for example, please eighter create an overlay on the screen displaying the keystoke or tell which key you just pressed to do what you just did. Even if it has nothing to do with the tutorial itself, like switching between the modes and such, it could be useful since the existing documentation is not that easily acessible than a video.
Or rather than keyboard shortcuts, use the menues and buttons as much as possible, they may be slower but they are easier to see than when you press a key. It also saves you from telling the keystoke all the time.

Then there are a few other points.
Like that you are too fast. Try moving the mouse slower, scroll the views more carefully, don’t haste. Work slowly but efficient and try to keep things clean.
Please switch your window into perspective mode and use the turntable scrolling mode. My head hurts from twisting it along the model to follow what you were doing. You may call that my preferrence but in my eyes these two things are the reason that a lot beginners end up with messy meshes and objects which are completely out of proportion. It’s too easy to loose the overlook that way.
Talking about windows, It’t be a good idea to start off from the default sceene, explaining hot to set up the windows best, which ones are needed in the process and where they can be found.

I hope my adivce is useful to you.

Well I’d agree with the above posts but more simply put the main things I would focus on is:

  • Explain everything clearly and in enough detail.
  • Speak clearly (But it is really hard to sound good on a pc mic sometimes)
  • Add writen instructions

For example, keys pressed, I wouldn’t go into messing with your PC’s config that was fine to me. Just think about a little post-pro to add info to the screen in a size people can see.

One other point is the thing said about menus, one of the best things about blender is it’s workflow, I say use all the shortcuts you can, it’ll save people time if they learn them.

Hope you can do more vids I don’t have the CVS but can’t wait for next release. :smiley: Only thing better then new toys are instructions on how to use em.

THank you guys so much, I will try. I wont be able to get an update till I get my new webcam/mic. Since I’ll be adding this to the list of tuts I plan on making.

Also, when you goto select all the faces of the head after you have created the seen you can just hit “L” key and it will automatically select those faces with in the seem, but explain that if you do a shortcut.

And I think ctrl R, or shift R selects rows of verts, I cannot remember.

But it’s something to think about.
Just remember to explain everything, don’t assume that people know what your doing.