From the course: Blender 2.8 UV Mapping

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What is UV mapping?

What is UV mapping?

From the course: Blender 2.8 UV Mapping

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What is UV mapping?

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- [Instructor] Before we jump directly into UV mapping some 3D objects, let's talk a minute about what is UV mapping, and why do we need it? At its core, UV mapping is the process of creating a two-dimensional image of our three-dimensional object. It's like if you took a cereal box and strategically cut a couple of corners so that you could open up the box and lay it out flat on your kitchen counter. Then once it's flat you could paint on it, draw on it, paste on some photographs or images to it. And then when you're all done you could pick it up and assemble it back to a 3D object, to a box and tape up the corners so it all holds together again. And that's kind of what we're doing with UV mapping. We're taking a 3D object, we're deciding where to cut it. We're laying it out flat, so that we can then apply two-dimensional images. Now, when you first open up Blender you have a cube here. And it actually has a UV map on…

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