As you can see the UVs for the orbital sockets have been improved quite
a bit. Almost done now with the general editing and relaxing of all the
shells, I went through to all of them and used the unfold UVs tool. I
needed to quickly put it back into UVlayout and edit the main skull UV
shell with the overlapping parts.
It normally doesnt take me long to make these adjustments, After a lot
of practice at Uving things I get an idea in my head of what probably
needs to be done to fix any issues, there isnt really a huge variation
of UV problems and if you can fix one thing its pretty easy to fix
another.
Now the final step is to arrange all the UV shells into the UV grid so
they can be exported and texturing can begin. Maya has a fantastic tool
called the layout tool. This takes the UVs of an object or many
objects and arranges them in a tidy way. It also scales all the shells
in relation to each other. This is important because it means the UVs
for the orbital sockets wont get more UV space than the mandible,
everything gets an equal amount of UV space for its size in the
3D world.
The layout tool did a great job of scaling everything and making it fit
within the UV grid but doesnt always arrange the shells in a good way
for texturing. I always go in afterwards and arrange them the way I
want, this makes texturing easier if everything is arranged in a
logical manner. I also added the teeth UVs to this as well. They were
very simple to unwrap, I simply put them into Uvlayout all as one
object and then split them up. I gave them quite a bit of UV space for
their size in relation to the rest of the model, the teeth is something
that people like to make detailed so its good to provide them with
enough UV space.
