Essential Skills for 3D Modeling, Rendering, and Animation

Lighting, Materials, Textures, and UVs ◾ 171

HOW DO I CREATE MORE COMPLEX UV MAPPINGS?

UV mapping can be edited point by point in any UV editing window,

which most 3D content creation soware will provide. One thing to men-

tion here is that game developer middleware, most signicantly Unity

3D and Unreal Engine, do not have built- in UV editors (although plug-

ins might exist). Usually UVs and polygons are sent to game developers

already complete.

Although advanced UV editing is a science unto itself, and it falls out-

side the scope of this book, it is important enough to mention it in order

to understand the mechanism, if not fully lear ...