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=== Optimizing ship orientation for UV unwrapping ===

(Z is "up", Y is "forward"? Got to experiment first...).

Worry not, though; we'll put it back to "Z is forward" after the unwrap. It's just that Blender shows the top, bottom, and side views vertically, when your forward axis is z, which is too bad if you're unwrapping "from view"... because we want the forward axis horizontal and pointing to the left in the texture...

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	* [[HowTo:FullUnwrapStarkOp\|Next: A Stark Choice]]		* [[HowTo:FullUnwrapStarkOp\|Next: A Stark Choice]]

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−	* [[HowTo:FullUnwrap6Seams2\|Previous: Placing Seams (Part 2)]]	+	* [[HowTo:FullUnwrap6Seams2\|Previous: Placing Seams (Part 2)]]HowTo:FullUnwrapStarkOp
−	* [[HowTo:~~FullUnwrap8Potato~~\|Next: ~~Entering Potato Mode~~]]	+	* [[HowTo:FullUnwrapStarkOp\|Next: A Stark Choice]]

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 === Optimizing ship orientation for UV unwrapping ===
-(Z is "up", Y is "forward"? Got to experiment first...).
+For the Vegastrike engine, and in OpenGL, we're used to orient our ships in 3D such that, if one is sitting at the cockpit, X grows positve to the left, Y grows positive in the forward direction, and Z positive is up from on top of your head. Blender is not like that, though. The Blender developers decided that Y is up, and Z is forward. Ever since I've been using Blender, I've been using the Z is up standard. In the final analysis, it should make no difference, right?
-Worry not, though; we'll put it back to "Z is forward" after the unwrap. It's just that Blender shows the top, bottom, and side views vertically, when your forward axis is z, which is too bad if you're unwrapping "from view"... because we want the forward axis horizontal and pointing to the left in the texture...
+Wrong! Finally, for the sake of this tutorial, I decided to make an experiment:
 * [[HowTo:FullUnwrap6Seams2|Previous: Placing Seams (Part 2)]]
 * [[HowTo:FullUnwrap8Potato|Next: Entering Potato Mode]]

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	Worry not, though; we'll put it back to "Z is forward" after the unwrap. It's just that Blender shows the top, bottom, and side views vertically, when your forward axis is z, which is too bad if you're unwrapping "from view"... because we want the forward axis horizontal and pointing to the left in the texture...		Worry not, though; we'll put it back to "Z is forward" after the unwrap. It's just that Blender shows the top, bottom, and side views vertically, when your forward axis is z, which is too bad if you're unwrapping "from view"... because we want the forward axis horizontal and pointing to the left in the texture...
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		+	* [[HowTo:FullUnwrap6Seams2\|Previous: Placing Seams (Part 2)]]