Unfold mesh image ???

[Marcel]

Apply cylindrical UVW mapping
Use Textporter utility to create the image (www.scriptspot.com, it's out there somewhere)

If you want to be able to tweak a lot of details in the texture map, you should use a more complex unwrap instead of the standard cylindrical (or spherical) UVW mapping.

For a more detail explanation about the unwrap process:

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~camen/thehumanhead/texturing.html

Greetings,

Marcel Vijfwinkel

[tazmanian]

ok.... is there are no way to use this without plugin ......

[Marcel]

The Textporter utility is free, and very easy to use. If you really want to be serious about texture-mapping, you can't do without it.

An option is aplying and unwrap modifier after the UVW map, and take a screenshot. But that would limit the wireframe template to the resolution of your screen. (Not enough most of the time)

Greetings,

Marcel

And PLEASE do something about you homepage adress, when I click it I'm burried in popup windows filled with useless ads!

[tazmanian]

ok.... i got the plugin and ill copyied it to the plugin folder ....
after i copyied how can i open the the Textporter ...???
i stucked here ..... and i also cofigure the plugin path also .....

please help me ..... i didnt installed plugin before ....

[Marcel]

You can acces the Textporter plugin under the 'Utilities' tab (the last tab) . Press 'More..' and select Texporter.

Greetings,

Marcel

[3DMadness]

Here's the Texporter official website, with download, explanation and some tutorials.
http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/max/texporter/index.htm
Cheers!

Flávio

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.