New to modelling. Please help with texturing.

[Whirligig Girl]

How would I be able to edit a texture, given a shape. I want to be able to use the template given from the UV Unwrap to paint over a square in an external program. Complete beginner, I just started learning about an hour ago.

[Robotengineer]

Did you export the UV map?

[comham]

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/modeling-uvmapping-and-texturing-a-low-poly-t-rex-in-blender-part-2--cg-12861

I found that tutorial very helpful for learning technical texturing 101

once you get into the artistic side, remember noise and grey levels

[Menecroth]

Did you export the UV map?

What he said.^

If you're using Blender and you're in the UV editor there's a UV menu. Make sure all vertices of your model are selected then click on the UV menu. There you will see the option "Export UV layout." Click that and it'll allow you to save that as an image file. If you're not using Blender, I don't know. Let me know if this is the least bit helpful.

EDIT: Oh yeah. Seek out tutorials. There are a hell of a lot of them and honestly, most are pretty good.

Edited December 19, 2014 by Menecroth
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