How To UV Wrap in Blender
Rendered images And the lessons to come from them
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I have put together a step by step list on this basic atlas workflow. The original video I will mostly be referencing should be used as a visual help. I have adapted her workflow to better suit ours. you can find it Here
To start you should have all your materials applied to your model in blender already. A photo editing software such as GIMP. And The Atlas Guide 16 or 32 colors PNG downloaded already. Depending on the complexity of your model. In this example we will Use the 16 colors Atlas guide.
Once you have everything together Open blender with your model.
Step 1
- Open Uv Image Editor
Step 2
- Select the model.
- press tab to enter edit mode
- press A to select all the verts
- Press U and select smart UV project
Step 3
- Open GIMP using the Atlas Guide
Step 4
- Copy the Hex value from your material in blender and paste it into GIMP
Step 5
- Using the Paint tool fill in the squares on the Atlas guide.
Step 6
- Repeat until all materials have been pasted
Step 7
- Export as [Assetsname]_Atlas.PNG
- In Blender open the Atlas texture you just made.
Step 9
- Select the material node
- Press the select button next to the assign button
- In the Uv editor, scale your islands down and drag them to the correct atlas color
Step 11
- Repeat Until all Uv islands have been assigned an atlas color
Step 12
- Switch over to texture view and look over the model. Make sure all the colors transferred over to the asset correctly and correct any mistakes
- Delete all your materials
- Create a new one and name it "Atlas"
Step 14
- Go into your texture panel and open your Assetname_atlas texture.
- Render your image and double check your asset making sure it fits our standards. Make sure you check our standards for Atlas textures here
