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Introduction

Lesson 2: UV unfolding

Dividing the mesh

 

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Lesson Setup

To ensure the lesson works as described, do these steps before beginning:

• Make sure you’ve done the steps in Preparing for the lesson.
• Select the Polygons menu set by selecting it from the pull down menu on the status line.
• Open the scene file named Soldier.mb.

  This file can be found in the GettingStarted directory that you set as your Maya project.

  GettingStarted/UVMapping/Soldier.mb

  The scene contains a polygon soldier.

• In the panel menu, select Panels > Saved Layouts > Persp/UV Texture Editor.

  Your view is split between the perspective view and UV Texture Editor.