odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 10 December 2008 at 8:07 PM
Some people like to do detailed fingernails, so I think mapping them bigger than the rest of the hand is probably a good idea. I don't know about the toenails. Somebody else have an opinion? Certainly need separate material zones, but maybe not private mappings. But maybe the entire hand should be in its own UV map, so more detail can be produced (wrinkles and such) without having to overburden the body map. Of course, that would make vein maps hard, crossing into a new map. That's what I hate about V4 maps. Crossing from the arm/leg map to the body map - nearly impossible to match.
If you have a 3D painting program, where you can paint right on the figure, I guess seams don't matter much.
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