Hi Mike, a few different UV mapping tools here:

UVMapper: http://www.uvmapper.com/
Unwrap3D: http://www.unwrap3d.com/u3d/index.aspx
Unfold3D: http://www.polygonal-design.fr/

I think that UVMapper may have an older version there available for free, look for the "Classic" version on their web site.

- Michael

Thanks Michael!

The UVMapper is certainly no-nonsense. It'll be good to get my feet wet. And a small learning curve, no doubt.

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Mike's models are always fun to experiment with. No changes to his utility box model, but I wanted to play with textures, bumps and labels in KeyShot.

The KeyShot material I created has a camouflage texture applied to a green base coat, then a fine orange peel normal map texture, then a transparent background scratch label. This material was applied as a Box Map to the model.

Keep em' coming Mike!

Ed

WOW Ed! The camo pattern is a neat surprise. It's wrapped around quite evenly.
It's like a battle-tough med-kit or box to keep C4 in.

Hi ed- wow that texturing and scratching looks really great!

- Michael

That is a great job Ed...

Thanks guys.

If I really could spend some time on it, a custom scratch label that showed more wear on the ridge areas of the box would be great - but the random pattern is a quick and dirty job.

In my jewelry work, random scratches on renders are not something I get to experiment with :)

Ed

Yeah looks nice....

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Magic Mike Utility Box - Desert Version. Like new condition - no scratches.

Ed

You make a fine render, soldier!!!

Kinda reminds me of wood.

Yeah - the grain in the pattern flows because the only way I could get such a complex object to map in KeyShot was to use a spherical map. If I were doing this for a real advertisement, I'd make the camouflage background color solid with no pattern. Then it would have no "grain".

Update: OK - I cleaned up the background color in the source camo texture before applying it to the model. Much better. See new post below.

Ed

Final render - Desert camo pattern with cleaned-up background and an orange peel texture applied.

Much better.

Hi ed
just need some Ambient Occlusion to the last one

Mike is a radio-amateur so....i imagined a portable CB transmitter for him.I tried to mantain his style when modeled this radio (i think the box and the microphone's lines melt well togheter)











about the microphone's cord i invite you to follow Mike's cord tutorial
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4722.1
also following Burr's suggestions at the end of the post (HE is The Professor ! )
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..so:please be patient:funny things coming soon.....

m-dynamics - Big 10-4 on that. Nice model!

@ m-dynamics

Nice one... :-)


Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

WOWWWWWW!!!! =-D

> M-Dynamics
For a second, I had a picture in my mind's eye of calling "CQ" on that rig.
Nice idea! ;-) Good job on the cord. Just think, that wasn't really so easy until V3.
And that hand mic looks really cool - How'd you go about making that shape?

>Ed
The carbon fiber is snazzy. It seems to say "I'm reeally expensive, you should see my matching K2 snowboard!"

>>Mike<<Good job on the cord. Just think, that wasn't really so easy until V3.
section chord to sweep in your tutorial was difficult because it was not circular like in my case.,you made a great tut with the cord...it's funny sometimes when Burr try to "correct" you


you made a cool box,very useable in many cases,easy to slice,bool,construct,etc.
my microphone just follow your style
main shape made with sweep:
yellow=section
red and blue=rails




then lot of bool-diffs
orange button is a squeezed sphere (scaled in one direction) then cutted by bool-diff