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Maintain UV scale

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Maintain UV scale

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at one more thing with UV editing, and that's understanding the scale of the texture itself. Now, when you start to create UV maps, you want to make sure that the same material or same image is textured at the same scale throughout the scene. So here I have this simple, kind of a T-shaped pipe, and if we look at this material, it's kind of a metal material, you'll see that it's a lot grainier up here, it's a lot finer down here, and it really doesn't make much sense in terms of scale. And so this does not look very cohesive. So let's select our object and go into the UV Editor and kind of diagnose what's going on. So in the UV Editor, you'll see that we have a bunch of shells here. I've got a shell for the bottom part of this. I've got a shell here for this top part. And as you can see, they're kind of different scales, and they're kind of all over the map. Now, one of the things I like to do when texturing is to make sure that these are the same…

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