How can I erase my stuff like you did? Maybe if you slowed down a bit it would honestly help a shit ton.

luckely its a recording so you can jump back, i did that a couple of hundred times after going "wtf happened there" lol

...its all good, but so fast, i gotta watch it again cuz i dont even remember "erase alpha"

Hello @Kent Trammell I don't believe the speed is the main problem, rather I believe your introduction to texturing is like using 400 grit sandpaper to try cut through and remove the problems quickly. I appreciate your tutorials, but I like many others am re-watching the sections due to lack of understanding. I am watching these tutorials at 0.5x speed however, I am finding the audio quite choppy and hard to follow. Thank you for understanding.

Sure, I would be happy to assist @Kent Trammell. For example, in Chapter 1 of the UV mapping video, you demonstrated all the algorithms. I found this introduction confusing because I was struggling to visualize a good base mesh. Here’s what I mean… 

100 Grit Sandpaper:

• Understanding why we use UV Maps (Data)
• Understanding what a good UV Map looks like (Origami concept “visualized” through a video or presentation)
• Understanding how to unwrap (minimizing stretching and seams) + (Selection modes: Edge, Vertex, Face, and Islands) + (How to lay out good UV Maps on 0 – 1 grid)

200 Grit Sandpaper

• How to make your own textures
• Texture painting 2D/3D

400 Grit Sandpaper

• Algorithms representing strange and confusing yellow lines everywhere on a 0 – 1 grid.

This is the texturing basics video goes through the different grains of sandpaper effectively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDrRa6JvQ0

Sorry to bother you, I hope this reply makes sense.

@Kent Trammell 

To sum up:

I could not understand the basics of texturing because no texture was applied all I saw were funny yellow lines in the 0 -1 grid. All the algorithms seemed like 400grit sandpaper to me. I know this is probably a petty problem, I just found the structure of the video confusing. Thus I interpenetrated some of the concepts as 400 grit sandpaper. Thank you, I hope this makes sense.