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Setting up your objects for painting

Setting up your objects for painting - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender 4.0 Essential Training

Setting up your objects for painting

- [Instructor] We've talked a lot about doing procedural materials inside of Blender using things like Voronoi and noise to add a lot of textural detail. But what if you wanted to explicitly paint something really cool onto your Starfighter? How would you do that? Welcome to the world of texture painting in 3D. Now, in this video, we're going to set up our object for texture painting, and then in the next one we're actually going to go ahead and paint it. There's a lot of steps here, so feel free to pause as we're going along. The very first thing we need to do is unwrap it, and that may be a really confusing concept. But imagine the planet Earth. It's kind of a spheroid kind of object, right? But now look at it on a flat map. That is called unwrapping, where we take a three-dimensional shape and then unwrap it onto a flat 2D texture. That's what we're going to do here. Go ahead, and at the top, click on UV Editing.…

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