UV unwrapping the Robot Drone model

In this section, you will UV unwrap each part of your Robot Drone model individually. Then, you will combine the unwrapped UV maps into a single UV map later.

We will start the lesson by loading the Robot Drone model that you created in the practical tutorial of Chapter 2, Modeling a Robot Drone Character. Perform the following steps:

1. Save a backup copy of the Robot Drone model that you created.
2. Delete the right-hand side of your Robot Drone's mesh parts, except for the body, as shown in Figure 4.9.
3. Separate all the parts of the low-poly model into individual objects. To do this, select all the faces of mesh parts that you have joined before. Press P to separate the model parts and choose the By Loose parts. Each new separated object part will also be listed in the outliner panel.
4. Use the Hide, Unhide, and Hide Unselected shortcuts to isolate model parts while you set your UV seams. By isolating model parts while setting...