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UV mapping complex objects

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UV mapping complex objects

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- [Instructor] Most objects that you map are going to be pretty complex, so let's take a look at how to map complex objects using the UV editor. Now for my complex object, I've got my donut truck and let's go ahead and just apply some basic mapping to get things started and then we'll go into the UV editor. Typically, I like to use automatic mapping and that's a great starting point, so let's right click, go into object mode here, select our object, go into windows, modeling editors, UV editor. And as you can see, we've got a pretty good layout of our truck. Now I don't have a material on here with the texture so we're not seeing anything in the UV editor at this point. So let's go ahead and minimize this for a second. Go into object mode, select our object, and let's apply a blend material. Scroll over, we should have blend 4 let's click on our checker, select file. And for the map on this one, I'm going to go…

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