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    Seam placement

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    maxcady

    I was wondering if the seams are well situated so that it's not obvious that tere is a separation once we add the textures. 

    The islands that are not blue, we don't even see those cause it's hiden from every angles by other meshes. Body file

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Max,

      That is great! No visible stretching; that is all you should care about; the seam placement is not that important in this model, as it is going to be hand-painted; the Seams won't be seen.

      With Blender's projection painting, you just paint over the Seams.

      Here's an example of what I made and this is perfectly fine:

      Head.png

      If I would want to use an Image Texture on this, the Seam would be very obvious and would need to be hidden, but with hand-painted Textures, you have a lot more freedom; you only have to care about the area stretching.

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    • maxcady replied

      Ok. So if it was to put a texture over pot head, would it be ok? Cause I purposely put those seams in corners.

      By the way, the Human realistic portrait is my next course.

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Depends on the Texture and on the viewipoint, but yes the seams are placed pretty good. 

      With a rock texture for instance:

      Body.png

    • Omar Domenech replied
      To hide the seams is standard practice, it's basically a way to assure that you can go with any kind of workflow in your model. You can place the seams in obvious places but then you will have a hard time if suddenly you realize you need to use a texture that wont work well with seams like that. So it's preferable if your seams, whenever you can, you put them in hidden spots of the mesh. It's not always possible, so that's the dance and balance we're all always struggling with.
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    • maxcady replied

      Why not painting a rock textures over the seams after adding the rock texture?

    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Sure, you can do that, Max. 

      The problem is with more pattern like textures (like a brick wall, for instance).

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    • maxcady replied

      yeah but it's not really a problem if you add the texture, and afterward you take the same texture as a brush and you hide the seams. That's my idea.

    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      No, that is not a problem at all.


    • maxcady replied

      I've been working very hard to understand and doing all that. Almost done.

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Well Max, that looks like a job well done to me 👍🏻

      And you're 'almost' finished!

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    • maxcady replied

      thx. So that it tells me that I'm on a good track.