About texturing

[Grrrrrrr]

Hy there mudboxers!

I am new to this forum and let me first tell you how nice is to see Wayne put such effort with the mudbox tutorials and hub. Big thanx!

Now, i have my first questions:

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6994/questioni.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/my.php?image=questioni.jpg)


1) I wanted to work on the texturing tools to get a hang of them, but i noticed that when i am projecting a texture on a face, the last line of pixels form the edge of the face are projected as well on the side faces, and what ever i try to do, and every angle i try to project from gives me the same problem. How can i avoid this. Is somehow an uv problem?

2) If i texture on the base model, and after that i subdivide, the uv don't smooth, or something strange happens, see the last image from above.

I somehow feel both have something to do with the uv. I made the base model in max, and gave it a basic flatten mapping from the unwrap. Here are the uvs:

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2085/uvs.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uvs.jpg)

My second guess would be that i did not model the mesh properly , and i am not sure how to model and prepare meshes for hard surface subdividing. I would appreciate some guidance in this direction.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2594/wiren.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wiren.jpg)

Thanks a lot for the support!

[Wayne]

Try painting the flat faces first, and then the angles as shown on the image.


Wayne...

[Grrrrrrr]

I am projecting as perpendicular as i can to the face normals of the mesh. I am not projecting in an angle if that's what you ment. Can i isolate/select the faces i want to paint on?

Thanks for the fast reply!

[Wayne]

A lot of it is down to feel and a soft touch..... try using a wide falloff and large brush size with a very light touch.


Wayne...