From the course: Learning Bodypaint in Cinema 4D
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What are UV islands? - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Learning Bodypaint in Cinema 4D
What are UV islands?
- Have we ever been to the Greek islands? Well, I have and I don't care about you. Back to UVs now. Just to get the terminology correct, I want to talk about UV islands and definitely not the Greek islands. Let me show you what I mean. I will make a sphere. And just make it editable. And now we have a polygonal sphere and a UV dotted map. Let me go to my bodypaint UV edit. I will zoom back and go to my UV polygon edit mode. Get my Live Selection Tool. Select some polygons. And I'm gonna shift and click here to select these as well. Get my Move Tool and just move that out. It doesn't matter, you can move them anywhere. You can move them on the others, you can move them out. We'll talk about this later extensively. So these unconnected groups are called islands. So we have our main UV and we have two islands. Now in theory, this... is and island by itself. But for terminology's sake, and so that we can communicate properly, this is what we call an island. And of course, an island can be…
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