
Look at your Perspective view after
you’ve run the Unfold Mapping tool. At
this point you may have noticed some
green lines over the edge of your model.
These are UVW seams. The best way to
think of this is like the final clothing and
the pattern used to make that clothing.
The pieces in this pattern could be
sewn together to make a shirt. The edge
that has to be sewn would be your UVW
seam, and this seam would appear to be a
straight line on your final shirt. Typically,
having as few UVW seams as possible is
common practice. Matching up a texture
across these seams perfectly is nearly impossible without
spending some serious time on it. Another technique ...