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Getting Started: Unwrapping and Maps

By Tara Kingston

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- 2 Nov, 2018

Industry

Design Visualization

Subject

Products

3ds Max

Skill Level

Beginner

Duration

14 min

This tutorial is part of a series called

Getting Started in 3ds Max

Getting Started: Bump Maps

Getting Started: Basic Animation

This lesson continues with the concepts of mapping and introduces you to a powerful feature called Unwrapping. It is a process to unwrap or unfold complex 3D geometry onto a 2D canvas, so that you can paint bitmaps in an image-processing program like Photoshop and layer them in the correct spots.

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Tara Kingston

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