dissonance wrote:stoop - suggestion for your UV map, if I may: since you have a linear join between polys in the middle of the fish that looks like it bisects the fish (looks like a plane just sliced right through), you could chop the unwrap of the fish's body in half, and...
fuck it, I'll just draw you a picture.
Ha, a good tip, but I wasn't really concerned with using more space, I was concerned with going to bed :D my texture didn't have much detail in it to begin with, and giving it more space would be relatively fuitless. But I knew that if I didn't finish my entry right then, then I wouldn't get around to it before the deadline (like what happened with my spaceship :( )
If I really made UV maps like that then I'd deserve to be shot :) more space was not used, than was actually used.