[Kebab]

Hey,
this is my very first attempt to skin a mesh in 3Ds max, what do you think of it? And if you have some good tips regarding unwrapping UVs please tell me.

[waylon]

Hmmm... tips on unwrapping UVWs....

I posted a basic tutorial in another thread a while ago, though it looks like you're well beyond what I wrote up back then. Here it is, anyway.
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/004736.html

For more advanced stuff....

One cheesy little technique I've discovered, which helps a lot, is this: When you're still in the stage where you're tweaking your UVW coordinates, give your object a texture map that's just a plain checkerboard, every other pixel black and white. It really helps point out where your mapping coordinates are skewed, or where one part of the mesh is going to get a lot more detail than another.

Hmm. Actually, that's about it for advanced "tricks". Everything else is just in using "UVW Map", "Unwrap UVW", and "Texporter" effectively.

[samg1739]

Another thing you can do is go to www.max3d.com and get a quake3 importer for max and take a look at how ID did it. pull some of the maps into photoshop

[anticz]

Try this for unwraping UVs
http://www.anticz.com/texture.htm

Hope it helps.