skinning and texturing

[BadKarma]

hey, any suggestions for how to flatten a hi-poly human mesh to be used to create the skin/texture?

[Max Lobovsky]

I think this is a fairly common task. There are numerous tutorials all over the web. Start here: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=human+skinning+tutorial

[Baden3DMAX13]

you could apply the texture to your model and use a UV Unwrap on it and take each peice of the mdel and put it on the texture map where it's supposed to be.

[BadKarma]

ok, i have a high poly human done. its one mesh and the only thing i found about how i could export the mesh as a .bmp or .jpg to texture would be 2 seperate the mesh into about 20 seperate parts, map/unwrap the new parts, then find a plugin which will export that to a picture file. u guys think this would be the easiest way to accomplish this? suggestions, tutorials, and help would be extremely appreciated.

[Doug G]

yes... thats probably the best way to do it... you cut off the arms, legs head, feet hands face etc... then apply a seperate UV Maping ( i.e cylinders for the arms... etc...) and then use that to create a bit map then recombine the meshes and weld the vertices w/in 0.0 of eachother