Seeking Help, uvw Boat model acting weird

[Anonymous]

Hello, I'm kinda new to modeling and have started making a small row boat, The problem is when I unwrap the UVW it goes all weird and the side of the boat trys to become 2 parts instead of been whole and messes the texture up. If some kind soul could possibly take a look at the model and texture for me and explain what im doing wrong I would be forever greatful.

Also below where the oars would go it has some weirdness happening their also.

I will zip the file with the 3dsmax model file and the texture I am trying to use.

If somebody do take a look at it and find the issue could you please explain to me how I could avoid the same problem in the future 🙂

Thanks In advance.

[Anonymous]

I guess you selected all polygons and did a quick peel? If so, what happened was that Quick peel used the existing seams (green borders) on the model to break the uv`s in tree parts. You can use 'Reset Peel' to merge them together again.You can also draw your own seams using the tools under Peel->Seems.

1) Select all polygons of the model

2) Quick Peel

3) Reset Peel

4) Rotate UV`s 90 degrees so the wood planks face the correct direction

5) Finetune the UV`s to remove distortion from the texture. 

[Anonymous]

Done that but under the cut outs for the oars the texture goes really weird... The rest of the boat seems fine doing it the way you stated.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Done that but under the cut outs for the oars the texture goes really weird... The rest of the boat seems fine doing it the way you stated.

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In this case it might be better to keep the three separate UV islands and use Peel to shape them individually. Just straighten them a bit using pinned vertices. You can weld them together later, if you want. UV Mapping is a broad subject and you might look into some of the tutorials that come with 3dsmax or one the 3dsmax Learning Channel like this one.

[Anonymous]

Wow nice, I will check out that channel thanks 🙂 I have been sat here doing some trial and error testing and managed to get my boat looking like the one in the image.. Its a fair bit of messing around but when you see how good it can look once you do it correctly is very much worth the time 🙂