UV MAPS

[bioazard]

Well Hello It\'s me again and I have some questions. can someone give me some tips about UVmapping I just don\'t know about it. Can someone explain me what is it for? how do I use them and how I get a single image texture for the entire model as I saw in the turtle post and how do I make them and edit them trough Photoshop since I saw it makes UVW files (I use 3d studio max 3 by the way).

Thanks to you all mapers and modellers
 
I am back I made a terrible mistake by ?quiting? PS
But now I am back more info in Crystal axe post.

[Wedge]

There should be a tutorial in MAX on this.

I use a slightly different method, this can make UV\'s much easier, but also much more a pain if you don\'t understand how to use it:

http://www.chilliweb.co.uk/chilliskinner/

It loses some effectiveness with higher poly models, but I\'ve found it can still even work pretty well then with some tweaking.

[FredrikH]

here take a look at this http://silverwolf.zapto.org/silverwolf/avi/uvw.avi
i recorded the uvw mapping process of my latest sword (not for ps) it actually is a rather simple process but boring as hell well atleast simple on such objects as swords
as for the .uvw files i think that is only used internaly by unwrap uvw and as for the image you can make it using texporter

[Ikarsik]

is there anything like texporter for Gmax?

[FredrikH]

no but you can use lithunwrap in combination with the  
md3 exporter for gmax