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in this tutorial

this will be a workshop

of where I'm going to show you how to take

a simple prop

our file cabinet

model it all the way through

I'm going to show you how to UV it

and then I'm going to take

it into painter and texture it

so this is going to be the entire process

from Maya modeling to uving

to substance painter texturing

and this is gonna be entirely in real time

nothing's gonna be left out

there's gonna be a lot of tips

a lot of workflow

processes that I'm gonna share with you

and as a bonus at the very end

I've also decided to put

together a little scene using this wild cabinet

the completed version

and create a small

LED scene rendered in Maya with wordshift

and I'll show you what I did what props I added

I just kind of to finish everything off

than the context of an environment scene

a very small simple one

I'll talk about what I did and how I set that up

so sit back take a lot of notes enjoy

and let's get started

let's begin with some preliminary pre planning work

and I'm going to show you what I've done

so first things first you have to collect reference

after you know where you go to model

you have to go out and collect as many

references as you need

to make sure you are modeling your object correctly

so I already have them collected

and what I like

to do is create a master reference image

this is where I compile all the images

onto one single sheet

like so there are many other softwares that

organize your pictures for you

your images but I like to do it the old school way

manually and here's what I have

just basically all the references that I've collected

of the file cabinet

and some other props that I may want to create

and then I just placed on one single sheet

so that way I can just

look through them and study my object

next let's talk about my scene

so I'm not going to insert all these objects

and show you exactly what I did and how I did it

I'm just going to talk about what I have

so for every scene that I create

and for every environmental prop that I model

I always insert a human scale reference

this is a simple box

let me unlock it

this is a simple cube that is about 6 feet in height

and the dimensions for this cube are width at 50

depths at 50 and height is 180

so this is in centimeters because

everything in Mia by default

is set to centimeters

and this nicely translates to unwarging 405

and of course many other game engines as well

so this allows me to judge my proportion and scale

to whatever objects I create

and I always have one of these

sometimes I even have an actual model

of a human inserted in here instead of a box

but that box just gives you a quick way to

have something

if you don't have an actual human model to insert

and then I usually place it on the layer unlock it

and then one more thing I have inside this scene is a

dome light now this is a red shift dome light

red shift is a render

and what I like to do with this is assign an HDR image

and I use this to periodically do a quick render

of whatever I'm modeling

to see how it would look with lighting

now this is not necessary but I often like to

check my progress with some kind of a render

even if it's going to go into a game engine

this way I can model something

and do a quick render test

see what it looks like see if I have a model correctly

see how the light hits it

and it just kind of

gives me a bit of inspiration and motivation

that is going to look good in the end

and if you don't have ratchet render

you can use Arnold or whatever render you're using

and do quick tests as you model

so I'll be doing this throughout the process

and I always do this

to help me out

all right so when it comes to the file cabinet

we're gonna model

you have to start with specific dimensions

or not really specific dimensions but

something of a size

something in centimeters that you can start with

you could insert a box and just start scaling

just based on what you think the

size of the file cabinet should be

but it helps a lot if you just have

specific dimensions to enter

for the cube and start

sizing and just going from there

so what you could do is

of course is you do your research and you find

the dimensions for the object

a really nice tip that I like to use is

most of objects and props that you create

you could find dimensions on Amazon

and you can use those values to start with

so for example here's

a basic four drawer

file and cabinet that we're gonna model

and it already gives you the overall dimensions

and I can use this

these inches convert them to centimeters

and have something to start with

and that's what I'm gonna do

and then you just take this

and then you can convert it to

cm by doing a quick Google search inchester centimeters

and then just

simple enter 52

dissiculate your value in centimeters

and that's where you could use

now I'm not going to use these values exactly

but it's a nice starting point and then I can

adjust it

based on my scene and based on a human scale reference

so let's do just that

I'm going to go ahead and create a cube

and show you how this process goes

so

create a cube and I'm going to go into the input tab

and already converted these values so let's start

the height converted to centimeters is 152

width is going to be 38

and depth is 63

now this is going to be a little bit too small

for what I want

I want a little bit bulkier file cabinet

and you'll find out that many values that are

translated from real world

into an actual model

tends to be small

and doesn't have that volume that you are gonna

expect from a game or from a good render

now it will still work just fine

but I usually like to tweak these values

so I'm gonna go ahead and just start adjusting them

so I'm gonna set my width to 45

gonna keep depth the same

because I think that looks pretty good

and for height

I'm gonna set it to 1:40

and actually I think I converted

the height for inches or not I think 52

inches in height is actually one

32 cm let me double check

so 52 yeah

132 not 152 so I'm gonna set my height to 140

to go a little higher

and I usually like to run down these values

rather than have decimals

because if

I'm gonna create a following cabinet I may want to

stack these on top of each other

and just make sure easier

their whole values

so that way I can snap

let's go ahead and position this on the ground plane

and I think this is good thickness good volume for this

and now we can begin

so I'm gonna have

my reference images that I'm gonna be

looking at throughout this entire

process on another monitor

so just know whenever we model this

I won't bring in the references into the

recording but I will always have them on another

monitor that I'm always looking at them

so you should always be

looking at what you are modeling

and constantly studying your object

so that way you can replicate it in Mia in 3d software

so we need to insert

extra edges because I don't have enough geometry here

in order to focus on

the 4 drawers

so I need faces

in order to begin to

extrude and do something with them

and I just don't have sufficient geometry here

so I need to insert extra edges

and begin to subdivide this

simple cube into

something I can use

so for this I'm going to use the model and toolkit

on the right hand side

if you switch over to model and toolkit

and I'm going to use the connect option

I'm going to switch over to edge computer mode

I'm going to select these four edges

and I'm going to left click to enable connect

and I want three segments that gives me 4 faces

so if you unable collect

it will insert between the selected edges

the amount of segments you want

and if your middle mouse click or drag

you can interactively insert as many as you need

so I just need three

and I'm going to go ahead and hit enter to commit

and now I have sufficient geometer to work with

now most filing cabinets

have a bit of a border at the top

and a thicker border on the bottom

something like this

has a bit of a kind of

a base and a bit more geometry here

so I'm going to go ahead and introduce that now

so I'm gonna select that top face

and I'm gonna extrude Ctrl E

to extrude shortcut

and I'm gonna give a bit of thickness

and for this thickness

I'm gonna give a thickness of let's say 4

and then for the bottom I'll select that face

I'm gonna next create that as well

and actually for first I let me erase this up

select that face and I'm going to extrude this one

and I'm not sure how many

units I want how many centimeters of thickness

so I'll just begin to extrude

and look at my reference

and I think about I think 10 is a good number

let's do 10 I usually round out these values

and not all the time

I try to

so here's what I have

let's go ahead and snap this down to our

ground plane to our grid

and since I've been using whole values

it will snap down perfectly

next let's go ahead and select these four faces

now we can begin to extrude and create

the detail for the drawers

so in the reference right here we have a bit of indent

and I'm going to try to replicate that in my model

and this is simple to do by simply

using the extrude with a few options

so I'm gonna go ahead and select these four faces

hit Ctrl E to extrude

and then I'm gonna start to offset

so this is

it begins to offset on the inside to create that extra

Geo

however I need to deal with these faces individually

so I'm gonna switch key faces together off

and let's adjust offset

and I think a value of 1 is pretty good

so that gives me that outside border

and the shape for each drawer

and I'm going to go ahead and extrude again

Ctrl E and let's do another offset

and in this case I'm going to extrude

probably a point five

I think point five is good

if you hold down Ctrl

and then you use the

slider on upside of any of these values on

any of these properties

this will give you

fine to admit like it gives you an extra decimal point

so left click click and drag it goes whole values

and if you need more precision just hold on ctrl

and left click and drag

so I think

5 I think that should be enough

I just want something that I can extrude in

and have that

kind of self shadowing and extra detail pushed in

and I usually like to zoom out

and just take a look at my object far away

to make sure that everything is looking good

into proportion

especially when I'm beginning to add more

geometry into it

so let's go ahead and switch back to face

and now I want to go ahead and select

these faces that I created with offset

just these small faces here and then extrude them in

however

if I have to do this manually the selection part

that is going to take a little too long

that I don't want to select manually

so I'm going to do a quick shortcut key for this

I'm going to have these 4 selected again

and then I'm going to grow my selection

so to grow your selection there's a shortcut key

but you can find this under Select

Grow and the shortcut key is shift period

shift period and shift comma will

grow ensuring your selection

so let's go ahead and grow by one

it grabs all those faces and I'm going to hold Ctrl

and deselect all the interior faces

and then I can extrude these faces inside Ctrl E again

and let's add some thickness

and let's do a thickness of negative 1

that should be plenty

all right let's take a look

now at this point this is where I like to check

do a quick render

using the dome light and the HDR image

and see what looks like

so I already have an HR image assigned to my dome light

so let me switch over to redshift

again you can use any render

it just helps out so much

just to quickly check if you need to adjust any

indents any bevels

any extrusions

so let me do a quick render

I think that's looking pretty good

if that end then is too much

you can always go ahead and adjust it

and change the values

so if it is too much you can always just jump back

either undo and sometimes you can even go back

into your history stack

and change

maybe how wide that is

so if I want to go ahead and maybe

find the offset maybe I do point 25

and then let's do another render

maybe that gap was too big

and I think that's actually better

smaller is better in this case

so I'm going to keep that

and then the next thing I want to do is do a bevel

around all of the edges on the outside

I think the inside drawers look pretty good

what we're going to end up doing is having the handle

and not this handle but maybe another one

but these are going to be separate pieces

flooring pieces

and we'll just combine them with our main case

but I do want to include a bit of a bevel everywhere

on the outside to get that nice

little beveled highlight

so for this I need to go ahead and select

all of the edges around

so this may take a little bit of time

I'm just going to hold shift double click

on all the edges that I can

so it selects a continuous edge loop

in some cases I just need to select the manual

one by one

select this one and there's a few more on the bottom

and there's one more here

make sure you don't miss any edges when you bubble

otherwise it's gonna be a

little harder to fix them because you're gonna have

a gap of no bubble

and quite a few hand guns you'll have to deal with

so I think I have everything selected

and now Ctrl B to bubble

the initial fraction

the amount of the bubble is too much

so I'm going to change the fraction here 2.25

and increase this amount of segments to 2

that gives you a nicer rounded corners

one is just maybe too low

might be good for some low poly model

but in this case I'm not really concerned with the

polygon count

so I'm going to increase the segments to two

all right

this is another time that I do a quick test render

just see what that bubble looks like

and see how that light hits it

let's go ahead zoom in a little closer and do it again

again depending on which agr image you're using

sometimes you may have to just kind of

position your camera a little bit better

until that highlight gets hits by the light

alright that was looking pretty good to me

now let me just take a look make sure that I have

all of the edges bubbled

and I do

and I'm also going to do the same thing

a slight bevel on the corners for the drawers

so I'm going to go ahead and select

all these edges right here

so I have 1 2 3 4

we'll end up having 16 edges

that I will bevel

and the reason I'm counting is because

so I don't miss any

and I always check right here in the heads up display

to make sure that I have that proper amount

especially when you're doing with bevels

and I have just a few more to select here

have 16 yep and let's go ahead and zoom in close

and let's do a bevel ctrl B2 segments

and that smaller fraction let's do point one

so again it's going to be very small

but it will be noticeable because

now you don't have those 90 degree corners

and let's go ahead and zoom in right here

and let's do a render again

see if I need to adjust anything

now I'll probably never get my camera that close

but it does look better

than this sharp edge

let me try the other view real quick

all right that's looking good

all right so we've created a simple file cabinet

and we added a bit of detail

and now we have four drawers that we can deal with

and I think one more thing I want to do is

introduce a bit more detail for the top

so if you take a look at the reference we have a bit of

an indent going around like a panel

and this I think might be good

another kind of nice detail to add

so to do that I already have an edge here

so I'm going to double click

hold shift double click to select all around

so all the edges are selected and they are

and then I'm going to bevel once

Ctrl B is going to introduce another edge with it

and I'm going to adjust my fraction

let's do point 1

and actually let's go point 05

so it's very small

and then I'm going to switch over to face computer mode

select this face hold shift

double click on the face next to it

it will select the entire edge ring

and then I can go ahead and extrude Ctrl E

and add a bit of thickness

and push that in

I want to push in too far

because these faces will begin to overlap

right about there

let's do a negative

point 1 and let me do another under

and just kind of test

maybe I'll just need to increase the fraction

let's increase the fraction even more

let's do a negative point to five

here we go much better

and as far as the main shape goes I think we're done

let me just kind of do a render faraway

just going to take a look at the overall object

and that's my reference

let me zoom in a little close on the tab

and the next step will be to start adding

the handles and it will

tag display for each drawer

and here are the ones that I'm going to go with

these right here

so here is the tag and here is the handle

so let's start with the tag get that out of the way

and we'll only have to create one of each

and then we'll be able to duplicate

for the rest of it

so this one looks like it's a cube

and then extruded cube and then another

extrusion on the inside

and then we'll knock out the interior

so let's do that right now

gonna bring in an a cube

now let's go ahead and scale this

move it further

actually scale it up and then make it smaller

and let's go in the front view

and just raise this up where it needs to go

and then make it smaller even

and scale it down

right about there

and scale it to the sides a little bit

I'm going to perspective

and I'm going to push this end so it gets closer to

the drawer

so that way I can judge the scale in depth a lot better

so let's make it smaller right about there

let's go in the front view and now

I'm gonna go ahead and select the face

and let's extrude with offset Ctrl E to extrude

to an offset then go right about there

let's take a look at the front

and now let's do another extrusion

and in this case I'm going to extrude but add thickness

control E and let's add thickness to

it another point five

and now let's do another extrusion without set

let's do another

just keep it consistent point five for this as well

and then let's do another extrusion

and push that in

and I'm gonna go in the side view

and see how far I need to push it in

actually instead of using the thickness I can

hit W to go to move tool

and just after I extrude you can use your

regular movement tools and just push the face down

however far you need

actually maybe I'll go down here past that face

and actually let me adjust it a little bit

so it kind of has

similar thickness all over

and then I can delete this face right here

so that way I have a hole and also I'm going

to delete this face in the back

so that way we can see right through it

because if you take a look at the wrappers here

we can see right through

to the drawers

so that's perfect

and then let me take a look

I'm thinking I either want to maybe extrude

this further and then just kind of close out this gap

I'll extrude without that maybe I'll just put

I can just push it all the way in

like so

but I don't think that's gonna look too good so

I'm gonna actually

push the edges right here

and then I'm going to extrude those edges Ctrl E

and add offset

actually let's do thickness

let me see which one I do I need because I want them to

kind of spread out

here we go I need to add a bit of thickness

let's go to front

and do that here

right about there

so that creates the interior face

that you can't really see it and then

Ctrl E again

and add thickness and that gives me thickness

that I can push in right like so

so you can see on the inside just gives me

extra geometry

that looks a little bit more real

and actually these faces right here on the inside

I don't need anymore

so I'm going to go ahead and delete them

just make sure I am only deleted

faces that I

do not need I was just checking if it was

if I had a double face there

and let me go ahead and so let me go in a wireframe

let's go back to shaded

so I need to delete the face that I will not see

which is right there

actually let me go to object mode

hit Ctrl 1 to isolate select

so I'm only working with

the object itself

and there's one more face I will never see

which is this one over here

bring everything back Ctrl 1

and here's the

nice looking tag

now I will do a pass of bevels

but before I do that I just want to kind of take a look

if I got the size right

and it looks correct

so let's do a bevel pass

I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this

just in case I need to bring it back

if I mess up

if I do too many bevels if it just doesn't look right

I usually like to duplicate things off

when I do a bevel pass on the corners

and now let's select all these right here

I can bevel these with two segments

and point one or point two five

so that gives me nice corners

and let's do one across here

as well Ctrl B

2 and 425 keep it the same

and I can even do these corners right here all across

so if I just select them

individually all at once though

I like to do just the outside corners and then

the corners themselves

so when you do bevels and passes it works a lot better

but you just have to make sure that you select

continuous ones if you do in the cross like I did

they all have to be selected all around

to avoid any issues

and let's do a bevel here control B

the fraction is going to be way too much

let's do point two

point one let's do 2 seconds

and smaller fraction point zero five

and that's looking pretty good

so I'm gonna bring you in this one just a 4 comparison

so this is the low poly version

and this is the bubbled version of course

we are going higher in triangle count

to 72 for this one

only 48 for this one

so again

because I know my output is going to be just a render

and redshift

and possibly just the beauty scene in you before

I'm not concerned with triangle count at all

so known your output

will help you determine where to add geometry

or where to keep it low poly

so let's do a quick render

and take a look at the result

zoom in a little bit and do another one

yeah it looks much nicer on the right

and if you still need to adjust maybe

thickness too much

in this case I could probably scale everything

on the side like so

just take these and scale them

however just be careful when you scale things

when you already have

bubbles the bubbles will scale with them

and you may not want to do that

and and if you don't want

to destroy the bevels

you will just have to do this manually

just select

and just move these in

and take these and just move them

so this will not destroy the bevels but scale will

and let me do one more render

that's much better

just less depth and looks like it does in the reference

all right so that's our tag and now

the next step is we're gonna do the handle

the handle has two components to it it has a square

base and then it has a rounded handle itself

so what we could do is just do a

cube do the same thing that we did for this

just a bunch of extrusions without said beveled

and then do the handle that's rounded separate

or we can do all together as one solid piece

so I'm going to attempt this as one solid piece

and in order to make some of these pieces rounded

so we can bridge and have this rounded while

keeping this square is going to be circulized

so let's introduce another cube to start with

and let me go ahead and

drag this all the way up when needs to go

and make it larger

and just kind of set the size of it first

I think right about that I think that's pretty good

let's take a look at it in perspective view

compared to everything else

and let's scale it down

right about so and let's position it up against this

geometry

so that's going to be that first part

and it's actually brought in a little bit closer

maybe a little bit smaller

and let me duplicate it just to see

what it would look like

the two pieces

just to block things out

alright I think that's pretty good

so now I'm going to go ahead and select this one

ctrl 1 to isolate select

then delete the face in the back

bring everything back Ctrl 1

push this out right about there

and let's do an extrusion on the space

Ctrl E

let's add offset

let's go on the front union and just adjust it here

so a little easier to see right about there

maybe less and I'm constantly looking at my reference

see how far I need to push things

and now let's do an extrude and push that out Ctrl E

right about there

and let me go in the side you hit F to frame

and compare it okay everything's looking good here

right about there that's good

all right so I'm gonna go ahead and duplicate this

off so I have a copy just in case

so

again I'm not sure if the circulized option will work

or not it will probably work but

I still want to I want to have bevels everywhere after

and it might be a little harder to do

once I have circleized in here and I have to bevel

some it might give me more work

to do rather than maybe keeping that

rounded handle as a separate piece of geometry

and again rounded piece of geometry might be faster

because it's such a small

area I may not have to fuse it together

and again my camera

my render camera is going to be further away

so I don't need to be

so close up on it to see that detail

but I do want to attempt it and see see

if I can make it happen

but if not I'll come back to that other one

so in order to do circleize

I need more geometry in here first

so I'm going to select this face again

and extrude without set

so that gives me the area

that I will be able to circleize

this quad right here

now I'm going to delete this face

let me isolate this

ctrl 1

so here's what I have I'll couple and knock that out

now I cannot circulize

these I can circulize edges I can circulize varices

so I'm gonna circulize varices

now I can't do anything to it right now so if I go to

editmesh

circulize nothing will happen

because I don't have sufficient geometry to circulise

so I'm going to use the connect

the multecut tool

and insert additional cuts

so I'm going to hold down Ctrl middle mouse click

on all the 4 corners right here

Ctrl middle mouse click will insert right in center

so that gives me extra verses that I can select

and I can now circulize these

no problem so edit mesh

and circulize

all right so I have one piece

let me see what happens when I duplicate it

and I try to bridge between those edges

and see if I can get that shape that

I see that I see in the reference

so I'm going to duplicate this one

so I have a copy of it

and in order to use the bridge tool

you need to have the object combined as one

so I'm going to select both of these meshes

go to mesh and combine

go to perspective

and I double click to select these edges

double click to select these edges

and go to at mesh and bridge

I need to change my curve type to blend

and increase divisions

so that gives me

the shape that I'm looking for

let's bring everything back control 1

and kind of zoom out

so that's looking pretty good

I may need to adjust this from top of you

because I don't want it to be surrounded

maybe I want

a little bit more

angler right here

maybe I need to adjust it manually

by actually pushing these verts in a little bit

at a time making sure I'm selecting all of them across

right there

and maybe hold Ctrl to deselect

and keep kind of adjusting until

I get the shape that I want

alright so so far that's working out pretty good

now let me

let me go ahead and insert a bunch of edges on here

so oh bevels not edges

I don't want to insert edges I want to

I want a bevel to make this nice and rounded

so let me take a look

because I want to have around the corners right here

so let me see if I can just first I'm gonna

double click on these edges right here

and on the other side as well

and beveled these first ctrl B

with two segments

and to point

2 of a fraction

you can also do this on these as well

Ctrl B

on here we select them again

let me move this up

just to make sure I didn't duplicate something

so double click on that

edge double click on this hold shift and Ctrl B

and let's do two segments here

and let's do point one

alright so that's working out good

and now I want to go ahead and see if I can

run out these corners right here as well as these

so if I double click is going to select

everything around

so I only want to select these across here

so let me do a quick test first some of the shift

I'm going to select this edge hold shift and let's do

double click on this edge right here

it will select everything in between

let me do a quick test by beveling just this one corner

Ctrl B with two segments and point 1

all right so that gives me a nice corner right here

now we just need to fix this area

in order to remove the end guns

now the only problem that I'm seeing

currently with this shape is

my cylindrical shape is very low poly

so if I double click on this I only have 8

edges to create my cylinder

so when I render this

it's not gonna look as good as if I had it made

16 or 24

let me do a quick render

so this is the one downside I may just go with

let me see

because these edges are also set to a hard edge

from the undo until I get that out

back so these edges are also set to a hard edge

so you may see this fast sideed look to them

but should be okay if I turn them to a soft edge

so I'm gonna select this model hold shift

right click hold

go to soften hardenedge and toggle soft edge display

and all these edges right here for the curvature

I'm gonna select them and I'm gonna set them to a

soft edge

and I'm going to go to Mesh Display and softenage

and let's do a render just on this

and I think this will work

again I'm so up close

but I'm not gonna be rendering this at this

up close perspective

my scene that I'm thinking of is gonna be

the file cabin is gonna be in the back like so

it's going

to take up the entire scene but it's going to be

further away with other objects

so the screen space for the handle you know

sometimes you don't have to worry about so many things

because you know what you shall will be

so I think that's this is gonna work out well

so let me go ahead and run out these corners and

fix the end guns so I'm going to do this real quick

I'll probably speed up this portion

so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to select

this edge right here

hold shift double click on this edge to

select everything in between

and I'm going to

bevel it but I'm going to do this all at the same time

so that way it's a one single bevel

and all the valuies are the same

and then I'm going to have to come in and fix

the end guns on the corners

alright here we are I have everything selected

and now let's do our bevel

all at the same time control B

let's do two segments

with a lower fraction point two five maybe

let's maybe do point two

surmound a little bit

now we have around the corners

and now it's time to fix this

so I'm going to enable multicut

and I'm going to fix this on one so you can see what

it does but then I'll speed up with the rest of it

because this is just repeating the same thing

for all the other corners

so here's the endgun 1 2 3 4 5

and then gun is a quad that has more than four edges

and this quad right here this face has 1 2 3 4 5 edges

so I'm going to go ahead and fix this

so I can use multi cut

or maybe let's do a target welding instead

let's switch over to verdex

enable target weld

and actually just target about this one

to that corner so that gives me a quad and a triangle

so that's good

actually that's gonna be a lot faster

Target Weld will take care

of the problem

make sure I'll do this in real time because that's

a lot quicker than I thought

and let's drag this one

just one more

on the top and one more on the bottom

so drag this one target weld

and one more target weld

go to object mode

and now we have our nice looking handle

I'm going to press Alt 5

or click on this icon right here to disable wireframe

I shaded so you can see

how it is smoothed out

and we have a nice looking handle

tag and file cabinet

so I'm gonna go ahead and temporarily

duplicate this piece for the rest

of the drawers going down

and the reason I'm doing this temporarily is because

this is a repeating element

so you want to go ahead and UV this first

and then duplicate it

so that way you don't have to UV the same object

over and over and over again

but I do want to see how it looks altogether

so I'm going to go ahead and ctrl d to duplicate

move that down

shift d shift d

shift d will duplicate with transform

and let me zoom in and actually move these out

and I'm going to do a quick test render

to check my mod on

render view let's render

and that is looking pretty good

let's get a close up

yep that's looking nice

so I think this is now done

I'm gonna do one final

test just to see if I have any end guns

even though nobody is gonna really see my topology

or check this is just for a tutorial

I have to keep my scene clean

just to kind of maintain quality

across all of my pieces that I create

so I'm going to select everything

and let's check for end guns

I'm going to go to mesh

cleanup options

and I'm going to make sure that I have

select matching polygons

so that way Mya selects for me instead of fixing it

and then I'm going to also

enable faces with more than the 4 sides

and hit apply

if everything gets deselected

that means you have no end guns

and let me go ahead and delete

these pieces right here

because I'm going to UV them

and then we'll duplicate them across

let's UV this file cabinet

now

overall this file cabinet is not a very complex object

if I take a look at the reference

it contains just one

solid material for pretty much everything else

and with the exception of course of the file

the name tag and the handle

those are separate materials

but there are separate objects

but the entire thing is one solid

painted metal

so usually you would make cuts UV seams

UV texture seams

and separate UV shallows to where you would want

able to have a different material and

pay a little bit more attention to where

the transition between different

materials would happen

and that's where you make your cuts

in that case this overall is going to be fairly simple

I just have to be concerned with

the drawers themselves

and because we've introduced quite a few bevels

I just have to make sure I have my selections correct

and I have no overlapping UVs when I do this

in order to separate

the interior parts of this foul cabinet

so there are separate UV shawls

so first I'm going to begin with the tag and handle

get them out of the way

and then we'll attack the file cabinet

so I don't like to use the checker map that comes with

Maya

and I usually have a separate material with the UV

texture that I use instead

for UVs you can use the floating window UV editor

like so

or you can use the workspace

and switching it to UV editing

and I'm gonna use this instead

it makes it a little bit

cleaner than having the floating window run

eventually we're gonna combine the main file cabinet

the name tag holder and the handle into one

single texture

so everything's going to be combined in the end

as one object but for right now we're going

to treat them as separate and then

we'll deal with combination and deal with UV texture

density towards the end

so let's start with this first

I'm going to go ahead and create my separate material

so I can take a look at my UV grid and how

my UV stretching is going to happen and just

when I look at it

it'll be easier for me to work with

however

you could use under textures and enable checkermap

I'll give you this checkermap pattern

I don't like to use this

so I'm gonna go to hypershade

and create a Lambrid material

so let's go to Maya

Lambard and I'm gonna rename this to UV Grid

and assign my UV grid texture into the color parameter

now let me show you what my UV grid texture looks like

here it is that's the one I use

and I have another one that I use also

this is one of them

and that's the one I'm going to use

I already have it placed inside my project

directory into the source images folder

so all I need to do is

click on the checkerbox file

image name click on the folder

and just simply go and choose my User Grid

and open

let's close it

and I'm going to select

all of the

objects that I want to apply the material onto

right click hold

go to assign the existing material and choose UV Grid

if you don't see it

make sure you have 6 enabled on your keyboard

or this icon right here textured

so you can see

there's some heavy stretching on the main piece

and of course there's some stretching on

everything else because we haven't viewed it

but I like this

I like to use this a lot better

than that checker pattern

also just temporarily I'm going to quickly increase

the repetition of this UV grid

so I'm going to hit Ctrl a to go to attribute editor

go to UV grid

go to color

and then go to UV Coordinates

and then click on this icon right here

it will take me to a way to repeat my UV

so I'll go to 2 by two

so we just repeats my UV texture

so that way I can tell a lot better

what needs to be worked on and what's being stretched

all right let me go ahead and hit Ctrl a

go back to UV toolkit actually

and now we can begin

gonna select the name tag holder piece

and I'm gonna hit ctrl 1 to isolate select

so for this piece I'm gonna have to separate this

piece into a couple of different shells

there is also a phase back here

that we're kind of dealt with

because it's not attached to the main area

this is going to be a separate UV shell

so that phase we created just so we can not

see on the inside

of the geometry

if it happens to be at an angle

so first let me go ahead and project everything

and get all the UVs inside

0 to 1 space that

and make them look a little bit better

and what I like to do is just

choose a projection method

XY or Z

and just do a straight projection on everything

let's go to create

planar options and I'm going to choose Z axis

so it's straight on

alright and then

let's take a look of

where we need to begin to make cuts

to separate these into separate UV shells

and then we'll deal with them

we might run unfold

few unfold options so in this side UV toolkit

you have unfold options we'll be using some of these

as well as there's an unfold option on the modify

unfold and we'll be using this as well

so I'm going to go ahead and click this edge right here

let me hit 5 to go shade mode

I'm going to double click on this

and I will make a cut

so inside the UV editor

we're going to hold down shift right click hold

make a cut and also inside the UV editor

I don't have that texture showing up

is because I have under image

display disabled

otherwise this texture would show up when you apply it

as a material

so you can disable it by hitting

I mean you go to texture and you display 6

and then I have shaded enabled and that is under view

and you have wireframe

and you have shaded and the hotkeys are 4 and five

so I like to view in shaded mode hidden 5

so that gives me

ability to see what faces are flipped

which are going to show in red

and there anything in blue is going to show up as

correctly flipped

in the proper orientation

so but I often switch between 4 and

5 depending if I'm working the perspective or not

sometimes it's hard to see with shaded like so

so I'm utilizing quite a lot of hotkeys

so I already made that cut

and now that is a separate UV shell

I'm going to hit

select UVs double click on the UVs

and I can now move that UV shell out of the way

because I made the cut all

the way across around all the edges

alright and then let's take a look how else we can

kind of separate this a little further

because if I just unfold this piece right now

it probably may not

it may not give me exactly what I want

but let's try it

when I select all DVs

and let me try the unfold option inside the UV toolkit

and let me try unfold

right so not too

well it's overlapping it's not bad actually

so if I run maybe unfold along you

and unfold along v

so there's some overlap

but this is not that let's take a look at the texture

there's some stretching going on right here

so if I make a cut somewhere

I'll fix some of that stretching

but again this piece is going to be

occupying very small amount of UV space

so I'm not too concerned with stretching on this

let's make it a little bit better let me undo

and let's select this edge right here

I'm going to make a cut

make a cut here

make a cut right there

and make a cut right along that edge

and let me run my unfold options again

so let me try unfold

undo let me try just unfold all on U

and unfold all on v

alright so that split that up looks a little bit better

and let me take a look at these

if you can move these out manually

and let me hit F to frame my view

and there's some stretching going on right there

yeah some significant stretching across here

so let me undo all the way back and let's

cut along here as well

so the more cuts you can make

the better unfoldable work

however you are introducing texture seams

when you are making those cuts

but again this is a smaller

texture resolution piece it's a small

we're not going to be up close to it

so I'm not concerned the amount of cuts I'm making

so let's just do one cut across there

and I'll do another cut here

and do the same thing on the side cut

and I'm hitting G

to repeat my last use command which was

cut uvs

and let's go and unfold

and let's do unfold it on U and V

alright so that's not bad that actually

should be pretty good

there's some stretching right there

of course because we have a lap in Uvs

but this is a lot better you can see it's

a lot cleaner

slight distortion but

when we apply a texture

probably not even gonna notice it

so let's do this right here manually

I'm gonna keep this

and I'm just gonna

select some of these Jvs and just unfold them manually

otherwise these are not really gonna unfold

maybe I can use optimized tool that did not work

maybe unfold tool

so I want to keep those a little bit more straight

so I'm gonna go back and just move them manually

so let's select these two

UVs and I'm gonna drag them back

and

let me zoom in so you can see what's happening here

so I'm just gonna drag these back

right about there maybe

and then I'm gonna select these UVs right here

and that one and let's drag that one out

so that way no longer overlapping slide distortion here

which we will never see

and I'm going to repeat this for all the other parts

let me select this drag this one back

select these two UVs and drag that one

and I just select this one and move it up

let me zoom in

alright so that looks better much better

and just repeat this across everything

and unfold those GVS ourselves

alright that's looking good

all right this piece is done

let me take a look at it from far away

VVS and

it seems like I might need to kind of

I think these

right here and the sides are stretched out

so I'm gonna go ahead and take them

manually and just move them up

right about there

just look at the lettering

see if there's any instructions if I want too far

you can see that they're being squished

so I just need to kind of push them up

until I see more of a consistent

so that's looking good

and that piece is done let me move it out of the way

again we'll deal with the text little density

of the shell later

I can probably scale it down

because I know it's going to be a lot smaller

and and let's deal with this big piece right here

double click on it

there's another shell in here

and that's for the faces on the inside

and there's only four of them

and I can probably just separate them

and project them on y and X

let's deal with that last

so for this piece right here

there is some stretching going to be happening

at the very top

and everything else is looking good

so I'm going to select the edges and I'm going to

select this edge right here let's make a cut

one on the bottom in the corner

and there's two more on the other side this one

and that one right there

start the UV's

let me try to run the other option

so this works pretty well

let's go to modify unfold options

let's see what we can do with this

reset the settings

unfold 3D let's reply

that did not work

let me try a legacy

under the legacy I'm going to unfold constraint

vertical

hit apply

and let's do horizontal hit apply

all right and that does a pretty good job

so I believe

that option is very similar to unfold on U and v

it might be a similar maybe same

or very similar algorithm

or it might be exactly the same I'm not sure

but it seems like it does a pretty good job

and very close to what I would be

let's do maybe I run that again and you can see it's

pretty much identical

and it maintained pretty good consistency

didn't stretch anything outside

so I'll keep that

so that piece is done

and we'll deal with the placement layout as well

let me go ahead and select the faces right here

these faces alone I can probably do them one at a time

and just project

so I'll select this face right here

and that face on the other side

and I'm going to project these planer project on

and then I'm going to select these two faces

and these are going to be projected on

y because they're at top and bottom

and then I'm going to select UV shell

and anything that's in red needs to be flipped

so I'm going to go to modify and flip

so it needs to be blue

and there are two faces here and

that red one right here I need to flip it as well

modify and flip

and let's go to UVs I'm going to select them all

I'm going to scale them down

and these will get positioned somewhere in here

and we'll have to

work with the textual density of these as well

so they all match

I'll just place them

somewhere on here

next to each other so I know what they are

actually let's place them inside the working area

so this is your important part right here

0 to 1 UV space this is where all UVs are going to go

these three squares are going to be your working area

this is where you place things temporarily

as you UV and unwrap them

alright so here is our

piece unwrapped so that is done

let me go ahead and delete history

I already have it on my tool shelf

let's save and Ctrl 1 to bring everything back

alright the next one is going to be this handle

press Ctrl 1 to isolate select

let's go back to our UV editing workspace

and let's deal with this so

similar approach

we need to find where we're going to make our cuts

which is going to be I'm going to separate this handle

along the seam somewhere in here

this right here will be one

UV shell probably make some cuts

maybe even probably maybe two

very similar because we have

this part right here and then might make

some stretching

but again a small area

of resolution

never going to be up close

so I can be a little bit

forgiven in the in amount of stretching that this has

let's go ahead and do a straight projection

and in this case I'm going to project on y

just to get all the UVs kind of reuved and redone

so I'm going to go to create a nator object planner

option so let's do y projection

and let's make a cut across the handle

let's get the handle out of the way

make this smaller

going to double click on this edge right here

and make a cut there

and do the same thing on the other side

double click on this edge right here

hit G to repeat last use command

grab all the UVs now this is a separate UV shell

and let's make a cut across here

so for pieces like this

the easiest way to deal with them is you project them

on a specific axis

and you find where you want to make a cut

so you can unfold and not wrap properly

so I'm going to make a cut right there

so the texture seam is on the inside

let's make a cut

now I'm going to select all DVs

so you can see that there is a texture seam right there

border edge if you don't see those border edges

you can always enable

underview texture borders 9

super helpful to see where you are making your cuts

and then let's unfold

I'm going to go to modify unfold options

let's go to unfold 3D and hit apply

and this piece is done

if you want to make it a little bit more straighter

you can manually

straighten this out

or maybe under unfold

straighten shell

that did not work

let's try straighten uvs

nope that's not what I want

I'm going to go ahead and select one of the edges

and go to modify

an Orient shell to edges

so that's straightened out a little bit more

so anytime you need to straighten your

entire shell paste on the edge

that's a great way to do so

Orient shell to edges

or you can run under unfold some of these options here

let's move this down

so that is complete

let's deal with these

two things on the side where the handle is attached

so first I kind of want to minimize the amount of

cuts that I make and unfold

let me try one thing and see if that works

I'm going to make a cut across here

to select this edge

let me temporarily disable

my texture gonna hit five

so I'm gonna make a cut right there

and make maybe another cut right there

and I'm gonna repeat this on all four corners

gonna select this one

and that one make a cut and one more

and I'm gonna attempt to just unfold

as I have it as is

it may not work based on this part right here

I may have to cut across here

usually this is a good place to

cut because it's another degree angle

but let me attempt it and let me see what it does

before I do though

let me project these on Z

and I should have done this before

let me try and run unfold it may not work now

unfold apply

yeah let's not do that let me project these faces first

because it looks like I'm in the

cut across here when I selected the interior

so I'm gonna go ahead since we projected it on y

I actually need to reproject it straight on

so I'm gonna select both of these faces

or both of these kind of shells and let's go to create

Binar and let's go on Z project

here we go that's what I want

so I'm not touching this shell this shell is done

the one on the bottom

and let me go ahead and reselect those edges and run my

command

my unfold

make sure select these

and if I if this works on this one though

I'll just repeat the same thing for the other one

although I could just delete the other one and

now I probably wouldn't because it's attached

so I'll just have to do the same thing to the other

side

I select all DVS

let me go to modify unfold options and just run unfold

and actually that is pretty good

that's what I was hoping the other

the tack holder would do

in my case the unfold option

for some reason

it didn't do what I've expected it to do

and it's doing it for this one

and that's what I was going for just one shell

and just do a straight unfold with

some slight stretching

and let me hit 6

so there's some

you can see slight stretching right there

but I'm not going to be worried about that

and I think that's done

we're done with that piece

so that is complete let me move it down

and I'm going to repeat the same thing on the side

so let me grab the edges make a cut

these two

in UV Editor hold shift right click code go to cut

and now I'm going to press G

to repeat the last use command

so this edge this edge hit G

this edge

actually let's select this edge and hold shift

this edge and G

and then run unfold modify

unfold

done

so this has this is going to be three shells

let's save Ctrl 1 to bring everything back

let's go back quickly to my classic

and now I can select

this right here and this right here

let me delete history on both

that both have been Uvid

let me bring back the UV editor first

and just kind of position them next to each other

so I know what those shells are

so in order for you to select

right now there are separate objects

in order for you to select all the

UVs at the same time

just select all the objects that you want to kind of

move the UVs for

in my case I already have the tag

selected on the handle

so now you

can see I have both of those UV shells together

showing up in the UV editor

and I'm just going to move these next to each other

and I'm going to temporarily resize them

but they're still not same UV text

all done setting yet

but this way it looks to have them together

all right so those are done

and I'll duplicate them across once I'm done with this

and I have the text on denser

to correct all the pieces

and that way I can duplicate

all the way down

and I don't have to deal with

separate shells for everything

so that's probably gonna be at the very end

so let's deal with this main file cabinet and EV it

so let's see how we're going to attack

this file cabinet

I'm gonna hit 5 to go smooth shaded mode

and there's only

so many sides that we can kind of deal with

you can think of this as a cube

just a little bit more detailed cube with bevels

so we're going to deal with drawers separately

so they are going to be separate UV shells

we're going to have probably the front

as a separate UV shell

as well maybe the side

maybe we'll attach the front and the side together

as one flowing shell

top and bottom of course probably separate

so let's go ahead and begin

let me go to UV

edited mode workspace

so I'm going to utilize a lot of selections

especially select grow and shrink

especially for these drawers

so inside we have a little bit of extra detail

so we need to grab

quite a few of these faces because I want to keep them

together along with the drawer

and I will probably introduce a

small cut in order so we can unfold

so I'm gonna select this face and for this I'm gonna

in the UV editor I'm gonna hit 4 to go to wireframe

just makes it easy to select and I see those

blue or red faces

select this face and hold shift select this one

this one and this one so I have 4 selected

and then I project them

I'm not going to project them yet

I'm just going to make them my selections

so I'm going to

grow my selection in order to grab all these faces

and then I'm going to project them

so let's go to select grow

I'm going to start utilizing the shortcut key which is

shift peered and shift comma for grow and shrink

let's do one more time so shift period

one more time

I just double check that I grabbed everything

and it looks like it did

let's project these faces on

Z

and select C project

alright so here are defaced

and let's go ahead and number 6 for textured mode

and there's some stretching of course

on the sides so let's deal with that

I'm going to select

all these edges right here and then I'm going to unfold

so for this is just a matter of

making sure that I select them on all sides

and make a cut

and I just need to do this for every drawer

might be a little bit tedious

but

I mean that's just part of uving

Vivine is not fun

sometimes it's a little time consuming depending on

the complexity of your mesh

but it is a very

important necessary part of the production

so you just have to spend the time put in the time

and make yourself work a little faster

and after a while actually

you kind of begin to enjoy uving

just because you get in the flow of

of just selecting that just making cuts

especially once you have some experience

and you know what to do

which functions to run

what the result that you're going to get

usually the predictable result you're going to achieve

and again this just comes from experience

reviewing a lot of different objects

so I'm going to hit 5 let's go to shaded mode

I'm going to select all the UVs here in the UV editor

and I'm going to run unfolding all of them

see what happens

so I'm going to modify unfold

and in this case it's going to be the unfold 3D option

and here we go that looks pretty good

let me kind of zoom in a little closer

here we go that's unfolded pretty nicely

I'm going to go to edge select the edge for each shell

just one straight edge

I'm going to modify and orient shell straight edges

so now they're going to come in straight

I'm going to do this for everyone

and I'm pressing G now to repeat my last use command

so these four are now straight and the drawers are done

if I take a look at the texture mode hit 6

I have a nice even grid

and if there is any stretching on the inside I'm

I don't care it's going to be so small and

noticeable

and for these drawers there's no stretching

it's just a texture seat on the inside that

nobody's going to notice

alright so for these I'm going to start collecting

the pieces for this follic cabinet on the bottom

because everything else we have

in one of these other right here

for the drawer

mean for the handle and for the name tag

so I'm gonna utilize this space right here

alright let's deal with the top

think the top should be pretty quick to do

I'm

going to take the top itself and I'm probably going to

keep all these faces together

as one UV shell

and all these faces

all around including the ones on the bottom

or I could maybe run

and keep all these shells on the sides together

so I mean there is a couple of different

options you can run through

in this case because I have a little bit of a vivid

detail here

I think what I'll do

I'll just select this face

and I'll just grow my selection

shift period just grab all of these faces

and let's do a couple more times

grab my selection one more time and one more

and actually

let me shrink my selection one time

oh no let's grow this face right here that's a

that's not selected

it looks like it's selected but if I go to 5

I have 5 shady mode actually inside the UV editor

let me turn off

this is what's messing me up

because I'm thinking this is selected

but it's not

so I'm gonna hit 4 wireframe in the UV editor

so I don't want that face selected

I'm gonna probably keep that

shell that face all around

probably with one of these shells

all right so I have everything selected

let's project on y

go to create binar options

y let's project

all right so I have some overlapping shells of course

at the very top

top is very nice but on the sides and underneath

so I just need to select

edges where I want to make my cut

so I'm going to select my cut

to cut the edges

starting right here

this and this

so I'm going to keep the front of the file cabinet

as clean as possible

and I'm going to introduce the texture seam

right here in the corner

so we'll select this edge right here

and I think that's where I'm going to stop

and I make a cut right there

and let's do this on the other side as well

and I think for this

let's go over here in the corner

because this is the back and I'm not worried so I want

to try to hide some texture seams

even though they may not be that noticeable

I still want to minimize them from the view

and hide them

somewhere in the back so I'll select these

these right here

let's make a cut there and I think I need to have

one more nope that's it

let's do the other side select this one this one

and I'm just double checking okay I cut right there

so I'll keep it consistent cut

now so select this edge and this edge and cut

and for this side

I'm also gonna keep it on the side right here

make a cut right there

just just take a cut

all right

so let me go ahead and

select all levies

I'm going to hit 5 or 6 to see my textures

and I'm going to

unfold modify unfold

select one of my edges

go to modify and we're going to show the edges

so now it's straight

or somewhat straight

so let me take a look

yep everything's looking good

let's lock the UVs

let me check that over here

that's cut cut okay

if I like it let's rotate a little bit

and I'm just checking all my seams

that that's exactly where I want them

so it's all even

all right good so that is done

make this shell smaller

position over here

and we are done with that

so let's we can also do the same thing on the bottom

but for the bottom I'm gonna keep this shell right here

as one shell

so let's hit five here here

I want to go to yframe and the UV editor

so for this one I'm just gonna grab the bottom piece

and let's grab one more grow our selection of faces

and that's all I'm gonna do for the bottom

so there's gonna be a texture seam

right here in the corner

as it switches to the bottom

and let's project that face on Y

select this face

and I don't need to do anything for this

and the only thing I do need to do is to flip

because it's inverted

so I'm going to select all the

DVS go to modify and flip to these faces

to show

so that's gonna be in the bottom

so I'll just position some of these shelves

where they need to go so I know where they are

in terms of the layout

because I will probably

lay these out inside the UV

0 to 1 space manually

so I just need to know what they are

so I have some sort of order

for everything that I see in my UVs is my UV layout

let's deal with the sides now

so after

each and every shell you kind of get out of the way

it makes it easy and easier because you kind of

you know you begin to narrow down

what you need to do

next and how much you have left

so for the sides

I'm going to select this manually

so I'm going to select this face right here

this face I'm going to hold down tab

and left click hold and drag to paint a selection

I'm also going to go to Wi Fi the

shaded mode and y frame in the UV editor

so that I can see my selection is better

let's select this face now

here I'm going to hold on shift and left click

and shift and left click on this face

and I'm just gonna keep

these faces on the side because I'm gonna

have my texture seam right there

kind of following this

the one that I already created at the top

and I should probably grab these as well so this one

this one and these I'm gonna create a

select manual because they're so small

so shift left click grab this one

let's come down so I grab the ones on the bottom

and I have one across here

and let me just double check the one

small face right across here

so that's gonna go on the front

all right so let's go ahead and project this

this is gonna be projected on

X create planner

and project on X

so I'm going to hit 64 texture view

let me move these

yep so this way I can kind of check

when I start moving my UV shell

I also check that I selected

all the faces and projected them

and I can already see that the letters are flipped

so I just need to flip this UV shell

modify and flip

let's do the same thing on the inside

let me scale this down first and just position

where it would go

it's going to be right there

and let me go back to shaded mode

and do the same thing on this side

I do have to deal with one face right here

so right now it's overlapping but

let's deal with it in just a bit

so I'm going to select this this

paint this selection all the way down hold tab

select a bunch of small little faces right here

hold shift and left click

this one there's one more right there and

couple on the bottom

that one and that one let me check on the other side

with these you always want to double check

because if you miss one face then

you may have to reproject

because then

it's going to be a little bit more difficult

to kind of

match it up it just you add a little bit more time so

making sure you have

everything selected that you need before you project

is better than trying to

fix it afterwards

so spend the time to double check

and I think that's good

yep that's it

so let's go ahead and project this also an X

and move this down

let's hit 6 to see my texture

let's scale it down

position it right there

and there is an overlapping face at the very top

this one right here that's actually two

so let me see how I can deal with this

I just want to raise it up

I don't need to unfold because it's just 2 faces

so I should be able to maybe just select the

manually select this face and this face

and just move them up

and I actually need to convert them to UVs

so I actually go and enable 6

actually go 5 so it's a UV shading mode

and maybe let me select

these UVs

and maybe drag them up a little bit

and let's take actually this one and drag it down

and take this one drag it up

let me try unfolding maybe unfold will work

instead of doing this manually

so I'm gonna select all the VVs by double clicking on

and run unfold

yep that worked

let's do the same thing here unfold

and I'm just going to select one of

it does this work and it doesn't

it no longer makes it straight

so that's the only thing that I don't

like that unfold does

because it has to compensate for this little corner

so let me undo

I want to keep these shells straight

and I think I did the same thing for the top

like you can see

there is a little bit of a distortion here

so maybe I'll try to straighten the shell out as well

see what I can do

1 the automatic ways

so instead of doing this the unfold way

let me see maybe I can run this

let me select all the UVs

and I just want to see

maybe I can attempt to unfold the low on you

no let's maybe select all these

faces where UVs and just unfold only the selected ones

we go unfolding along V

only the selected

various selected UVs did what I wanted to do

so I selected them all unfolded along V

and just unfold them so perfect that's what I want

so I'll do the same thing here

just select those at the top unfold

and raise them up

let me see if I can quickly fix this one right here

I really don't like how skewed that is

even though it doesn't seem like it's going

to really cause any issues

but let's see if I can just fix it quickly

so I'm going to select all these UVs

let me unfold

and unfold along v

that looks like it straighten them out

a lot better than before

here's before little skewed

here's after just straighten those out

let's try and fold it on you

so that's what creates a little bit about distortion

so I'll undo that

so I'll keep this

it's a slightly better result

even though it might be not that noticeable

so then

the only thing I have left is the one in the back

and one in the front

so let's get rid of the one in the back

and then the only one I have deal with

is the front shell

so for this

and it looks like I

should have probably grabbed these

faces right here too

and kept them together on the side

and it looks like I missed them

I should have continued with this edge right here

and ran them down

so again it's just one of those things

you know you have to whether you can let it go

depending on the time or you might want to fix it

in my case let's fix it

I want to keep this kind of more consistent more neat

keep it that quality

so I want to run that texture seam along together

and I really don't want that kind of a transition

just even though it's a small face

it's going to be in the back

just keep it keep it quality

so how would we do this a little bit quicker

I'm going to select the faces

of all these shelves on the side

and I'm just going to add to it

the ones that I should have added before

let me go to shader mode

and I'm just going to select these

and this one right here

and let's project

and this is going to be projection on X

planner

project on X so I've reprojected this

let me flip this modify flip

and let me do my uvs again

select just the tap ones

unfold along v

actually those are unfold along v right not you

so it unfolds at the tap

ones on the sides

it looks like they are already unfolded pretty nicely

let me go and check

yep that looks nice

so that is done

again you can see how quick that was

scale them down

move them over here

and let's do the same thing here

I'm going to select all the faces

move to the other side

and let's select

the few faces that I missed

this one that one

go all the way down

this one

that one and a couple more

this one and that one

and let's reproject

go to create planar

it's going to be still on X

let's hit 6 so I can see my texture my UV grid

let's go to UVs

select just the top ones

and unfold the low and V

and let's scale this down

and it's going to be right there

and let's do the one in the back

now I can just simply select

let me go back to shader mode

and I'm just going to select this face right here

this one

paint the selection all the way down

so like this one and this one

and this is going to be the back

back is very simple and I'm going to project it on Z

create plan the projection option

C project

and that's it for that one I just need to flip it

I'm gonna hit 6 take a look

move it around I grabbed everything that I needed

and go to modify and

flip

and these faces

should only be the ones in the front

so everything that's inside 0 to 1 space

should be only for the front

so if I take these move

if I go into the perspective viewport

with all the faces selected that I need to UV

if I drag them out and around

this is a way for me to check that

I didn't leave one of the small faces somewhere

UV on the other pieces

or maybe there is a floating face that I forgot

to attach to so this is kind of a way that I can check

by selecting the faces inside the UV

editor that I need to UV that I know only below

to the front and inside the Perspective U port

actually just move them around

and if I happen to have a face somewhere

you would see it being pulled from the back with top

or the sides and you would know that that one face

just happens to be

maybe not attached to the other shells

and it should have been

so in this case everything is just for the front

so with all those faces selected let's project them

and project them on Z

Create and Project

Planar

project

alright so most of these should be okay

with exception of the ones on the inside

there is a face right here

that I don't think I want to add to be attached

but it's going to be inside this divot this

kind of interior bevel

and then that stretching right here that's going to be

created may not be that visible

so I want to see if I just

just unfold as is

if I can just unfold some of these pieces on the inside

so let me try just double clicking

and selecting all the UVs and just trying to unfold

on this therapy

see what happens

and that is actually not bad just slight

stretching over here which is not going to be seen

but everything else I think that's pretty good

yeah I'm going to keep this

let me select

one of the edges

and I'm going to orient my shallow stretch edges

so it's straight

and just take a look at it

yep that is good

all right

that shell is complete

all right so our next step

our next step is to get everything inside

0 to 1 space so we need to do our layout

so this is the important part

placing everything inside this square right here

everything else is just a working area

I need to go ahead and select everything that I have

I'm not going to combine them yet

but I do want to lay them out together

as if they are combined

so in order to see all the UVs inside

for you to lay them out

just select all the objects that are going to be

together next I want to set everything

to the same textile density

so I need to select all the UVs

and we can do this one at a time

and I usually prefer this one at a time

however you can do this all together

when you do this all together

the shells will split up all over the place

so it may kind of mess up your organization

that you're trying to maintain

so here's what I'm going to do

I'm going to

select them and see what happens when I do them all

together all the UV selected you go to transform

and under tools

you are going to see textral density

and I'm going to just input a number here

just any number

this will set every single UV shell to the same

textral density

so nothing is going to be bigger than the other

they'll all be maintained the same texture resolution

and same in my detail between each UV shell

so let me type in 1

and click set

alright so see how everything kind of got broken up

so we just need to place them back together

however

I can do this a little

bit more manually so I'll just scale everything down

position where everything needs to go

and I'll just

deal with this more owner of a

1 by 1 basis so I'll select this shell right here

and when I come down to the texlo density I'm gonna

click get it's gonna

collect the number

forward that texlo density for that shell

I'm going to double click on another shell

and click set

so it's going to match it

to the one that I got the information from

let me move these out

and I'm gonna do this to every shell click get

so that's gonna be that's the top

let's click get for this

I mean set because I already got the number

so I'm just gonna

click set and everything

and for that shell I'll just rotate this one

that's going to be going on the bottom

actually I can actually scale this down

because nobody is going to be seen on the bottom

so for that shell I can

really scale it down and maybe position it right there

to kind of save a little bit more space for me

for importing areas

unless this file cabinet is going to be sideways

so it might all just keep it as this

so it's the same

for this one let's flip it

and let's continue doing this for all of the shallows

I'll select these

and I'll click set

now for these I do want to maybe

so I'll have this open space right here maybe I will

because I'm going to be duplicating a lot of these

shells together

I'll probably put them inside

this area right here for all four

so this way at least I maximize the space that I have

so I'll keep that for now let me just continue getting

for everything so this one

that's the drawer

that's the second drawer

that's the third one and that's the fourth one

this one let's click set

and this is the back set

right and these

let's deal just with the handle

which is this part right here

click set click set

and click set

these are going to be very small

so I could probably just scale them out a little bit

in order to give them a little bit more

texture resolution

and they're going to be going to the top

not too much I want them to stand out

but maybe a little bit more than they are what they are

yeah it's okay to do that

and let's do the same thing for all these pieces

so I'm going to select all the uvs

and click set

same thing here click set

now I do prefer to do this manually

because this way I have full control

I know where the shells are going to be going

I can position them

it does take a little bit longer

than usual because you are doing this by hand

there's an option to do this automatically

and just tell Maya to

set text on density for everything is the same

and position everything inside 0 to 1 space

by going to modify and work in the layout options

right here and just working through this option

you can define padding

define resolution and so on

but that does it automatically

and in certain situations that would be fine

but just for this video I wanted to do it manually

to show it to you

I scaled this out as well

and I do prefer the more manual method

because you have more direct control

alright so now

I just need to position everything since 021 space

so in this case I need to select everything

and I may need to scale all the shells down together

and just find

how I can fit all these shells

maximizing the 021 space as much as possible

if you need to scale up or down

you can do so just do it all together

so let's flip this shell

so in this situation it becomes the more like Tetris

you are trying to find

the best possible position

for all these shells

might be a diamond right there

let's position this one

I want to avoid overlapping

any

UV shows

now let's move this one over here

which this one is the side yep

so I want to give unique UV space for each shell

and actually that turned up pretty well

I can probably scale this

slightly higher just a little bit

and that looks good

let's select these to move them out

I have a little bit of empty space but that's fine

and

that is good everything sides 0 to 1 space

and the last step is to select

these pieces right here and then duplicate them

position them down

and then I'm going to move those UVs

down the stack into each

area of the interior

so that way they also have their own UV space

so let's do that I'm going to select these

let's go to front view

so that wagon

shift d duplicate em

move em down right about there

and I get very simple distance from the top

right about there

and then shift d again

and then shift t again

take a look at the

perspective view

hit 54 shader mode

take a look at they are all kind of similar distance

they look like they are

and then I'm just going to select them all

and actually let's select these two

and these are the UVs I need to move down

so I'm going to select the file cabinet

take all these UVs that I have in here

move them down

then select these DVS with the power cabinet

so I can see all the DVS

select all these and move them down to the third one

and do the same thing for this

and move these UVs down to the very bottom

so now if I select everything

they all occupy their own UV space this

is a nice clean organized layout

and few last things

so let's go ahead and select everything that I have

I can now go ahead and combine everything as one object

let's go to mesh and combine

this is now one single file and cabinet

and all the UVs are attached together

I can now leave the UV editing mode back to my classic

so let's delete history

built up quite a stack here

I'm gonna name this

name it file cabinet

and let's modify a pivot point

I want it to be on the bottom

I haven't moved this file cabinet

from the very beginning

and I already had my pivot point perfectly on

the bottom

so I'll just snap it to the grid to the world origin

that's where it's going to be

that's where my pivot point for this object will be

so I'm going to hold on d

x the little mouse click and drag snap it

and that is it

if for some reason you need to collect a UV layout

you can do so

in the UV Editor

select the object go to

image UV Snapchat

define what you would want to save this UV

layout this image

with all the UVs in there

give it

size resolution image format JPEG

and you would save it and you could have this layout

if you needed it for some reason

let's finish things up by taking this automire

and texturing it in painter

so I'm going to go ahead and select the file cabinet

and we're going to export it as an FPX

going to go to file

Export selection

and under geometry

in

options I'm going to make sure I have smoothing groups

and smooth mesh enabled

these are the same options I use when I export for ue4

and they also seem to work in painter

so I'm going to give it a name

and export it somewhere that I can find it

and I already have an export folder right here

I'm just going to put it right there

and export selection

all right let's go ahead and jump over to painter

let's create a new project

go to file new

and for the template

I'm going to use PBR Metallicarfness

Alpha Blend

under file you select the FPX that you exported

go ahead choose my APX which is right here

and let's use that

for document resolution

I'm gonna go up to 2k texture

and you can always change just at any time

as well as during the export

and everything else I'm gonna keep the same

and click OK

all right here we are

we imported our mesh right in here

so the first thing you need to do is you need to

bake your meshes

Bake maps form right in here right inside substance

so go to texture set settings

scroll down

and you're going to see this mesh maps

and you need to do this

so painter can calculate and take a look at your mesh

and generate important parts of

the textures that will be used

to paint so go ahead and bake mesh maps

for the settings here

the only thing I'm going to choose is the output size

to the same output size that I have

that I set prior to importing the mesh

so 248 2k and I'm going to leave

everything in here

which maps to bake

add default I'm not going to change anything

and then go ahead and

bake select the textures

and you will see a difference after it's baked

you will actually see a difference in

the preview of your mesh in painter

here we are click OK

and it is already looking better

we have some even occlusion

and it's looking nice

alright so for texture in this cabinet

I'm gonna keep it simple

I'm not going to go through

and spend too much time here

I just want to apply a few materials

tweak a few properties and then generate my textures

to use so I'm going to utilize Smart Materials

these are

presets that have been given and created for you by

substance and they just allow you to

very quickly to start texturing and create something

so that's what I'm going to utilize

and we'll do a few tweaks here and there

so to apply Smart Material

I'm going to go back to layers

and I have a layer 1 which is an empty layer

you can go ahead and delete it

I'm going to delete mine

and I'm going to come over here to the shelf

and click on the second icon

which are smart materials

and there's a lie here

and I already know which one I'm gonna use

and for the main cabinet

I'm going to use steel painted stained

and it's gonna be right down here in the bottom

right here not this one still painted

right here still painted stained

so left click

hold and drag right over your mesh

and apply it or you can just

even drag it right into the layers palette

right here on the right

so either one will work

I'll drop it on top of the mesh

so this applies

the small material of the still painted stained

and I'm just going to take a look at what looks like

and again right away everything looks pretty good

it has a roughness

it has a base color

a little bit of height or normal map apply to it

so it's looking pretty good already

the detail right here the little edges and scratches

that's repeating a little bit too much

so I'm gonna tone that down

as well as I'm gonna change the color of this

so I'm gonna reposition my light by holding down

shift and right click

hold and drag

that's why I can check

what it looks like

especially at the roughness

and let's tweak a little bit

a few of the settings for the texture and then we'll

deal with the

name tag and the handle and do another material on it

so I'm gonna come over to the layers and I'm gonna

open this up you can see you have all of controls here

again

usually if you're going to do this manually you create

these yourself

but

since this is a small material it gets applied for you

just a quicker way to texture things

when you don't have time

you just you need to get something done

so we don't want to leave it as is of course

and so first I'm gonna come over here

and I'm gonna tone down

this these scratches kinda this

repeating pattern of missing paint

so if you don't know which one is doing what

in the small material

you can just enable disable the visibility of it

and I'll show you and it is this edges right here

so if I turn that off it removes it

and this is a nice clean file cabinet

so let's introduce it a little bit

so I'm gonna adjust that capacitor for it

so I'm done just turning it down

and I want a little bit to show through

so I'm just gonna tweak until I find something

where I don't see the repetition

so I'm gonna keep it about 20

and then I'm going to change the base color

I don't want to have this kind of

darker teal color applied onto it

I want more olive green

so I'm going to come over into the still painted

stack of layers

and it's going to be this bottom layer of base paint

I'm going to select it

and then in the properties you have

ability to change the base color right here

so I'm now left click on it

and I can just use the color picker

and I've already decided which color I want

and which value for the color that I'm going to use

so I'm going to just copy and paste it right here into

the hex the number and that's this color

but again you can choose whatever color you would want

for your base paint

let's go ahead and close this

and here's what I'm gonna go with

kind of this kind of army green

olive olive green all right that's looking pretty good

now let's deal with the handle and the name tag

for this I'm gonna use a whole different material

and then we're gonna mask this area out

so we are done with this as far as

the main file cabinet body I'm gonna just go ahead and

close the folder and then for

this I'm gonna use

another material and this is going to be

steel painted

also a smart material so it's gonna be this one right

here if you can find it you can always search

for a material so I'm gonna

just search for steel so it isolates it

and then it's gonna be steel

stained it's gonna be steel stained not painted

right here steel stained

so I'm gonna go ahead and left click

and again I can drop it

right onto the

object itself or I can just drop it right in the layer

so I'm gonna drop it in the layer at the top

it's going to apply this material

and override everything I have below

but that's fine we're going to use a mask

to define which areas we're going to

apply this onto

so let's do that now I'm going to

right click on a still painted layer

and add black mask

so everything is going to disappear

and then I can select which parts that I want

still stained to appear on

and for this because I don't have a material ID for

in order to select which

colors or which parts of the mesh to apply to

I'm going to use polygon fill

so I'm going to make sure my mask is selected

and come over on the left hand side

and right here

you're going to see polygon fill selected

and I'm going to switch over to

select mesh which is going

to be on the bottom right properties

Mesh fill enable this

and then with the mask selected

inside this still stand material I can just left click

on the meshes

and create the mask and reveal

the material

let's go one more time for the bottom one and this one

alright let's take a look and that's looking good

now I want to change the color of this so it's not

the silver but more like a

gold yellowish

so I can do this by creating a fill layer

so if I go inside the steel stained material

I don't have

like a paint color that I can change

so for me to do this

otherwise I'll just have to create a layer

and have it be kind of applied

color over it

so I'm going to select the steel base layer

and I'm going to create a fill layer on top

add fill layer

you can already see it assigns a certain color to it

then in the properties I'm going to

make sure I only have color applied

and I'm going to disable

all these other channels

so I'm just going with color the base color

because that's all I want to change for now

so I'm now left click bring out the color picker and

choose a color

now I already have a color

again selected

pretty selected before so I know what color I want

so I'm gonna use the number

I'm gonna paste that in here

it's gonna be this kind of a yellowish

gold kind of color

something similar to

the reference that you saw when I was

when we were modeling

and then I also want to control

a little bit of roughness

so right now it's a little too shiny

I just want to double it down just a bit

and for this I'm also going to create a layer

in order to control that roughness

so I'm real quick I'm going

to just rename this so it's going to be fill layer

color

let's create another fill layer

I'll ride on top of that one

and this is going to be a way for us to adjust

only roughness

and in the properties

I'm going to disable everything except for roughness

so only the roughness channel is available

and I'm going to lower this

so I'm going to lower this to let's say point two

let's see point three maybe

point two five

so you can enable disable visibility

and again I just want to make a slight adjustment

so it's a little bit duller

so here's before here's after

and that is it that's all I want to adjust

again

I want to keep this material distection process simple

again this is a simpler version of a prop

and it's looking pretty good

so we are done texturing

if you know about painter you know how to use it

you can go further

and you can just do more of different passes and

custom paint certain parts scratches dirt

rusty areas and so on

but as far as

us concerned with this file cabinet I'm done

so at this point we need to export the textures

if you go into render this somewhere else

in unranging 4 for example or

in Maya using a

render or anywhere else

or you can go ahead and render this right inside

painter and if you come over here on the top right

you have iray

so you can lock click on this

and render it right in here

there is a bunch of properties you can control

which display settings to use which environment map

if you want to see the background or not

and just a bunch of

porse processed effects

so you can go through and have a beauty shell

right in here

right in painter

in my case I want to export those textures

so I'm going to go ahead and go to file

export textures

I'm gonna select

where I want to export those textures into

so I'll navigate into the directory

where you want to have them in

so I'll just choose this one over my project

and I'll select that folder

then my output template

already predetermined before

but here you can change it for whatever else you need

and I'm going to choose PBR Meteliccraftness

that's what I want

file type PNG yes

and then I'm going to switch over to the Limbard

this is the

default material that was applied to the mesh

when we exported and when we imported

so this is kind of the name of the material that was

assigned to a file cabinet in the beginning

which was Limbard 1

we didn't change this

and I'll keep all of this except for emissup

there's no emissup properties for this

so I'm going to go ahead and disable it

and I'll keep everything else

and then just go ahead and click export

and it's done

and here are two textures

so we have the base color height metallic

normal and roughness

so you would take

these and you would use them in whatever render or

game agent you would need

and here is a test render I did in redshift

so I hooked up a redshift material input all the maps

and I have a tutorial on if you are using redshift

I have a tutorial series on that you can look for

and I'll link it in the video description

that shows you how to hook up all the maps correctly

and the materials from Substance Painter

or the textures look

exactly identical in the retrofronder

and for this last part as a bonus

let me talk about the scene that I wanted to create

so after we created the file cabinet

and you watch me go through the process

I didn't want to leave it as this

and I wanted to use it within the context of a very

simple

scene a very simple environment and do a render of it

and this is what I ended up with

as you can see this is very simple

I added an extra couple of props

a chair and a book

then I created a floor

a wall and I wanted to have the lighting

the majority of the work

so I'm going to briefly talk about how I set this up

and the end result

so the additional prop that I created was a chair

this is a very simple chair

let's take a look at the UVs

again everything is laid out inside 0 to 1 space

I brought it into substance

through a quick small material on top of it

and I ended up with this

this entire

chair was created with just a bunch of polygons

and then just

a lot of duplication

reusing the same piece of geometry over for the legs

and I applied a lot of bevels to get a nice

smooth corner on the end of it

on all the edges

the other prop that I created was a book

and I just wanted to throw some kind of a

quick text on it

and you can really read it inside the render

but that's okay as long as you can kind of get a nice

I get a sense that this is a book on top of the chair

that was enough for me

and then they had the two pieces of

geometry I created were A4

let's take a look at the Evs for this

this is a talable floor

and although it's not being used as a talable floor

it can be duplicated and tiled and it will be seamless

and same for the wall

the wall has a tiny little small border on the bottom

that's made of wood

and the rest of it is

a plaster concrete surface

so this took me no more than probably just a few hours

to put together

and then for the render I created a small

kind of blacked out environment used the same wall

with the border and I knocked out a few

areas for the windows

and the reason I did this

and created this kind of encapsulated environment

was for lighting

I wanted to introduce kind of a

sunlight going through a window

and casting some nice shadows on the interior

and the light that I used wasn't just a regular light

I used a dome light

right here it's a red shift dome light

and an HDR image to light the environment with

so if I open up the properties for it

dome light it has an assigned HDR image

and here's what it looks like

here's the

HDR image that has been used to light things with

and in order to use this HDRI image

and get the result that I was trying to achieve

tried to get with the lighting

so I have more shadows that I self occluded

I had to introduce a couple walls

otherwise if I didn't have

these walls over the windows

and if I just deleted the walls

it would be just too bright

so just as a quick example

let me bring in the renderview

and just show you what that would look like

so let me enable IPR and I'm rendering from a camera

so let me switch over to camera 1

and I'll show you how I set up the camera

so here's a quick render of the final shot

and let me show you what it looks like if I

just happened to delete these walls

and did not introduce them

so it's still the same setup

actually I do have a wall here

so it's still the same setup

however it is a lot more brighter and the HDR image

has a lot more bounce light on the outside

so by doing those walls

and counting out the windows

I was able to introduce that indirect lighting

and a lot more shadow in the area

that I wanted to have more darker areas

so after I went ahead and introduced it

you can see it got a lot darker

and I still have that very strong

directional light coming from the HR image

so that was the reason for

introducing the walls

and the reason I knocked out some of the windows is

again just to introduce more indirect color lit areas

that have more light

before if it was solid

it was just way too dark

now for the camera

I just used a regular camera in Maya

and you could go to create

cameras camera this is the one I used

and this is my renderable camera

this is what I used to set up the shot

and for the shot I

used a square format

instead of a white screen

because I just didn't have enough props or enough

interesting composition

to include it

so I did a lot of tests

trying to get

like a wide screen effect of it so like 720

but I didn't really like the composition of this

I didn't want to duplicate the same

cabinet to both sides

and I ended up going with a square format instead

I think compositionally that worked better

and primarily for the light

it was very important for me that I wanted to get

nice strong shadows and a very strong

directional light shining

revealing parts of the file cabinet

as well as hidden part of the wall

the poster and the chair with the book

and then I wanted to have some nice

cast shadows from the chair

creating a bit of more depth

so again because this was a basic scene

I wanted to make sure that lighting

was doing a lot of the work for me to showcase what

would be a very kind of

land seen if the light

wasn't good enough to light with

it wasn't achieving the results

that I was trying to get

so you can get away with a lot

by making sure that your lighting is on point

so in the end

I didn't want to just create a prop just a file cabinet

I wanted to make it a part of just something more

and creating a little extra few props

allowed me to create a very simple scene from it

and push it a little bit further

than just do a single prop and call it done

so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial workshop

the second simple prop file cabinet

going from the very beginning of modeling to uvine

and then texturing quickly in painter in order to get

the full process and the entire workflow

so hope you enjoyed it

got a lot out of it

thanks for watching I'll see you in the next video