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Beginning the UV map of the dumpster

Beginning the UV map of the dumpster

From the course: Blender 2.8 UV Mapping

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Beginning the UV map of the dumpster

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the dumpster and see what we need to do to UV map this. Now, I recommend that as you do your 3D models, as you finish a model, you go ahead and do the UV mapping at that time. You know how you modeled it and if you leave it for a later date, you may kind of forget what you've done. And since I've modeled this, I have a sense of how it's made, how it's built. So let's take a look at that. I'm going to select it and hit the Tab key to go into edit mode. And let me just move this over. Here we go. So if I press the three key to go to face mode, I'm going to hover over this piece on the front and just press the L key and the L key will select linked components. I'm going to come over here to the move tool. And if I click and drag it you can see that this piece is its own object or I should say its own part of the larger object. And in addition I'm going to press ALT + A to deselect.…

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