Remember kiddos, always apply scale before UV unrwapping, otherwise the entire texture will stretch.

For those who are having the problem where the subdivision modifier is stretching the texture out, you have to go to the modifier and in Advanced > UV Smooth select "Keep Corners". At least it worked for me !

Nice, finally I can make a chair with Nicolas Cage all over it

Those who have stretching texture. Follow these steps to solve the problem. 1- Select the object 2- Go to Edit mode 3- Select all vertices by pressing "A" 4- Press "U" 5- Select "Cube projection" That is it :)

For anyone having problem texture stretching along edge or corner, try this: In Subdivision Surface Modifier > Advance > UV Smooth : Change Keep Boundaries > Keep Corners Not really sure what it does but it fixed the problem for me :)

Just a heads up to anyone running Blender 2.9, I was having issues with the Unwrapping in the UV Editor the first time I tried it. Instead of selecting Unwrap as Andrew suggests you need to select all, press U then click on Smart UV Project then click ok. By clicking Unwrap my vertices were an absolute mess every time, drove me nuts. The above method worked perfectly for me!

9:53 in Blender 2.9 you need to click the dot on the left of "base color"

Just spent the entire last 3 days watching your donut tutorial! You are an excelent teacher! Best regards from Norway :D

“I think it’s solid wood” Yeah, it better be. It’s an *800 dollar chair* 😂

At this point, I'm not actually following the tutorial but just enjoying how fun Andrew teaches

How can someone dislike his videos. He's giving a free course and teaching us something so valuable. Thank you Andrew for teaching us👏🏿🙌🏿 Best wishes only

As a Grand Master in Taekwon-do and teaching for over 45 years, I believe Andrew to be one of the top 3 instructors teaching Blender on KZfaq today. He not only knows his what he's talking about but he genuinely seems to be enjoying teaching us during these tutorials. He has never claimed to know everything and always says there are other ways. Being this humble is what makes an excellent instructor. As a 9th Dan Black Belt, Andrew..... I thank you for your knowledge and patience. You have managed to convert me from 15 years of STRATA 3D CX over to BLENDER 2.83 and learn more than I expected. WELL DONE!! Thank you.

Man, you rock... don't ever stop... Its so hard to find someone with a tutorial that not only tells you what to do, but the reasons behind doing what needs to be done, so that I can problem solve later. I started on Blender a month ago, and the only reason why I am able to continue is because of your tutorials. Soooooo THANK YOU!

10:25 I was stuck on this for a bit, but eventually figured it out. Make sure to normalize your object's scale to 1 before unwrapping it! If your scale is wonky like mine was, the grid ends up all stretched. To normalize the scale, simply select your object in Object Mode, press CTRL+A, and select "scale".

I like UV unwrapping is because it's like solving a puzzle, and when I started to look at the whole process like that I started to have fun with it

Please make a physics tutorial (I would love to learn some water/lava/building break down/wind/nuke/etc!) I see you are reading and replying to comments so please consider the physics for your next tutorial.

this seams challenging...

Honestly though I’m so happy to be getting back into this as I had lost all my passion for blender after my last computer died causing me to loose over 300MB of models I had made over that time about 2 years ago. But thank you Andrew for staying awesome and genuine ever since then. Also you keep making me want tea when you talk about it, lol

You are an excellent teacher. You actually explain things and just do them and expect other to just follow through. Since I'm new to blender and I've finished your donut series, I'd love for you to make a particle simulation tutorial. E.g Fire, water, air, crushes etc. That would be unbelievable.

Definitely finding these useful for a little side-project I’ve been tinkering with since finishing going through your donut tutorial. As a beginner, one thing I found with UV unwrapping is that sometimes it just comes down to eyeballing and seeing what feels right. I even found a couple or situations where having a seamless texture over a corner of an object looked somewhat off and adding a seam ended up seeming more natural. It’s as you say wit the “homework”, there are some times where just giving something a go yourself is a great way to learn. Your tutorials certain help give me the confidence to try a few things on my own. Even if your next tutorials tell me where I went wrong and how to correct it. Best way to learn, I find.

7:59 In Blender 2.9x click on the top triangle to apply the modifier, or use Ctrl+A.

I love this... This guy is just having a good time and we're watching him work his magic!

We need people like you! Not only are you giving us knowledge for free, you're also providing us stuff like cheat sheets! Thanks a lot!

Such an incredibly helpful visualisation of unwrapping at the beginning of this video. Amazing job Andrew! Thank you for putting in the extra work to help us all understand UV unwrapping.

At 9:45, where he clicks that little dot beside base color for image texture, in newer version you may have a colored one on the left side. Click on that to apply image texture.

This man, he taught me so so much about blender, I even made a whole KZfaq channel on my trying to be as good as him one day

Blender Guru, to myself, you are the best teacher of Blender on KZfaq. Over the past few years, you have taut me so much in 3D. I'm still a noob at it though, because I keep stopping. But now I'm back at again, just did the donut for the 3red time lol, and now I'm doing the chair. I wish you did characters, even just a basic one, because that's my gool as an artist, is to make 3D characters. Learning from you would be the best!

0:30 damn blender guru is so good at blender, he learned telekinesis and can now control his stuff without touching anything

I love UV Unwrapping lol. When I first started I was making things just for the purpose of unwrapping over and over, getting them perfect and making them easy for other people to use for texturing in programs like photoshop. Game assets people can buy on a game and offering the maps so people can get creative

Just getting started so I'm bouncing between this and the doughnut tutorial. Both are fantastic btw and I finally found out what the UV in UV unwrapping stands for (I'm nowhere close to that point in the doughnut world). Thanks for putting these out Andrew!

This series is so good. Thank you. Having a bit of trouble translating things into blender 2.7 for my old pc, but I'm making progress. Thanks again for making this.

15:50 had problems understanding how the material thing went. (probably cause im using Blender 3.0 and small things like that throws me off a cliff) Solution: target the leg, hold shift and target the horizontal piece (that you previously put checkers on), both should be targeted here, then CTRL+L choose "Link Materials"

for people having the UV stretching at the edges try checking subdivision - advanced - UV smooth - keep corners

I love how real you are in every video you post man! it makes these so much easier to follow.

The first 30 seconds of this video was golden therapy for me. Thank you.

"It seams to me like you're the expert, Andrew!" (To paraphrase Tommy Wiseau)

LOL! That was a great opening, Andrew!

I dove into blender during quarantine, so I haven't seen any of his recent videos until now and I knew him as the funny looking guy who does blender tutorials. I came here to learn about textures and now I'm just staring at the corner of the screen in bewilderment.

You are such a great teacher, I followed most of your tutorials starting from scratch and it helped me a lot ! I would love to follow a character modelling tutorial made with the same meticulousness you have :D

12:05 - to be honest, while you're working on UV unwrapping, you're going to run into these kinds of things and switch back to editing the 3D model too.. so it's a rather good representation of real life UV unwrapping, thanks Andrew!

For anyone else having the stretching issue due to the subdivision modifier, when he says "give it a seam" at 17:26 he actually means "give it a crease" and gives the right hotkey Shift+E.

OMG!!!! I just spent the past 4 hours trying to figure out how my UV wrapping was stretching at the corners of the legs lolol Turns out a couple of my vertices were not aligned properly at the top of the chair leg. I had to mess around so many times until I realized the reason and then figure out how to fix it without redoing the entire leg lol I was so frustrated but I said I'm sticking with it because this is how I learn. My gosh I feel so happy and proud fixing it. I def understand modelling a lot better now that I had to figure out how to fix the issue.

The best Tex UV tutorial Ever. I'm living with these now.

For anyone wondering, at 17:30 the way to actually get the preview of the crease creation and solve the problem is to, on the subdivision modifier, enable in the advanced options, "Use Creases" 😎 Also, someone in the comment mentioned that on the same subdivision advanced tab you should change the "UV Smooth" setting to "Keep Corners" and it does in fact look much better overall, reducing stretching of the texture much further 👍

I like how your hair looks in this video, also keep up the great content

ok, I love you now. And I apologize for my comment on the donut tutorial. After scouting the web... you are literally the best Blender Tutorial creator out there. No one comes close. I had no idea how complicated this program is until I tried to look for other tutorials, and found how no one remembers what it's like when you're new to it. Thank you so much for these, you're a life saver! Greatly appreciated!

that animation explaining UV unwraping is awesome, simply yet effective

0:29 holy shit he's so good that he doesn't even need to use his hands to uv unwrap

This "imagine as paper" helped me so much with UV Unwrapping back to the old UV unwrapping tutorial, thanks a lot Andrew! I dont like Farming Simulator but i gotta say its pure satisfaction to get a working and pretty looking UV

I know this isn't the final part, but I just want to thank you for making this for us, I have been wanting to get into 3d modeling so bad and for you to provide this content to us FOR FREE??... Just thank you so much

Love your videos and your accent, Is a pleasure to hear you talking because I understand most of your speech and explanations. THANK YOU!

A few things I had to fix to make the UV grid texture show up properly. First, before applying the Mirror modifier to the bar, I had to go back and delete a face where the other side of the bar was being mirrored (at the Z-axis). Second, APPLY SCALE (in Object Mode) before doing an UNWRAP (in Edit Mode).

13:58 numpad 9 is the other side of the view you're in, it's way easier than ctrl + Also, I'm so happy! I finally understand uv unwrapping!!! All thanks to you (I feel so proud that i know the answer to the homework even though it's easy)

This is the most brilliant explanation of UV unwrapping I've ever heard

so if you do read the comments ..then i want to tell you that i am a big fan of you and your work..mostly the pricise detials you do in modelling anything ...so thank you very much and blessings be upon you.,...you are doing a great job ....so many guys who are beginer to the blender are learning a lot from you...i am a big fan of yours ....i never before commented on your videos ...but i just could not resist...thankyou again bro....

You can activate Stretching on the UV Editor window in the Properties Panel (shortcut N) > Display > Overlays > Stretching, this will allow you to see a heat map of where there is distortion/stretching directly on the UV Map.

Who would watch a UV Unwrapping video at 3:00 AM?? Me: oh 3:00 AM, time to watch Blender Guru!!!! 😅

Andrew you're a great teacher!! You inspired me to dip my toe into the world of 3D!

its been a while since i checked out this channel and this was the first video i clicked. the beginning really got me laughing and reminded me why i liked your tutorials so much xD

16:09 After he adds the seam, he unwraps it again by pressing A to select all, and U for Unwrap menu. Was wondering why the texture wasn't updating.

Anyone getting bad distortion when UV unwrapping even though you repeated all the steps, make sure that you selected the correct edge on the back oh the chair. I had two very close ones and the unwrap was correct only when I selected the inner (left) one.

it's my favorite part of the whole 3D!!! I'm so exited to unwrap this whole thing!!! It's like Chrismas :D!!!

Loving the tutorial Andrew! The informal style is really nice

I LOVE YOU. I have never seen someone explaining things so simply and with a mindset that the viewers know nothing, so it better not skip anything.

UV Unwrapping was the HARDEST thing for me to learn. And after this one video, I grasp it so much better than before. How can I ever repay you??

When you are in Edge Select, you don't have to press Ctrl + E to select Mark Seam, Just right click!

You're a real master man, your style is a very nice one to companion our journey in blender!! Thanks very much for your dedication, we reaaaally appreciate it

Best UV explanation I ever heared. Great job, sir!

If you're like me, and have the tutorial video sharing space on the screen with Blender... You may have some options at the top of the Blender scene crowded out, like the button for switching to Viewport Shading mode. In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, I saw BlenderGuru do something to slide the buttons over, which clued me in to try things. First thing I tried was using the scroll wheel while the mouse cursor hovered over the buttons. Which worked. TL;DR If you're working in a tiny Blender window where some buttons are not visible due to the size of the window: Try putting the mouse cursor over where they should be, and spin the scroll wheel on your mouse.

Fun fact: Some high quality cabinets actually try to use a mirror pattern for panels, so it's sometimes very desirable.

Absolutely love your content Andrew. Especially the way you take time to explain the objectives of every function in such detail.

Very well explained, easy to follow along tutorials Andrew! Cheers!

"and other people get excited about UV unwrapping and those people are..." omg ye I love UV unwrapping :DDD " *psychopaths* " oh..... that explains a lot xDDD love ya

i really cracked up at "It's like a gift from god" at 16:48

Absolutely your content Andrew. Especially the way you take time to explain the objectives of every function in such a detail.

Oh my god, I found something awesome! Because you made me UV unwrap stuff and mark seams I found out the most useful camera shorcuts. If you hold Alt and swipe with the middle mouse button, you can go to any orthographic view that's in the direction you swipe to. And if you hold shift after you press the middle mouse button, you can snap the view to a grid!

14:00 about this, I (re-)learned yesterday you can also use 9 on the numpad to "switch sides", pretty convenient :-) (like, 7 for top view, then 9 for bottom view, then 9 again for top view and so on). But I agree with you I prefer ctrl+, in the same way that I'm trying to stop using AA to deselect everything :-)

As a Dane I can guarantee you, that a Børge Mogensen chair is made of solid wood. :)

Came to learn about unwrapping, ended up going trough the whole tutorial, now I am here - lezzz gooo!!!

I've been using Blender for 6 years, consider myself an advanced user, and am at the point where I think I can start selling models as a freelancer. Still watched the whole video just to watch Andrew teach.

11:01 No, you shouldn't rotate it. And you're the one how told us this just two or three videos ago 😄 You should do a shearing operation.

Thanks as always for an awesome tutorial! I have, however, completely given up on the idea of getting faces to match.. Is anyone else finding it absurdly difficult to just align the back with the legs? It works for Andrew, but that neat little operation he does at 11:15 escapes me utterly!! The process seems simple: set the origins of two objects you want to align to the same point, then position them with Vertex snap on and rotate.. but how do you do that if the point would be floating between two chair legs? Suggestions (about my problem =)?

Andrew, you are the best. I love these tutorials. Please make more using Blender 2.92.

Thanks for great video. I appreciate the understandable steps you explain in your tutorial very much.

His Uv Unwrap: All right Mine: A goddamn stretch everywhere i look, even with the Scale right

9:55 can also choose checker texture instead of image

FINALLY a good tutorial, not a boring default cube in the middle. Nicely answered

Can't wait for tomorrow. So excited!!

My textures were stretching on the subd edges and i redid this tut twice until i realized if i switch the UV smooth tab (in modifier settings) to Keep Corners instead of Keep Boundaries, it fixes the weird warping on the subd boundary edges.

up until this part I really thought I did this quite accurate.. and then I unwrapped... :P

I spent 1 hour in object mode hitting u and being unable to unwrap, can’t have enough of it, love it

You are an absolute lifesaver. Thank you for this!

I dont get the rotation at 11:16 do i miss something. I m going nuts with this... btw. I appreciate your tutorials and it's okay that you also entertain me!

I literally said psychopaths in unison after the pause at 0:15, hahaha. I don't remember anyone enjoying this process during my game design course. Still, it's been smooth sailing so far so I'm hopeful!

Brilliantly illustrated explanation at the beginning.

that kanye west side note... i absolutely love that about your tutorials. very practical and easy to follow, and sprinkled through with random hilarity lol

17:29 he means give it a crease right? shift+e adds a crease and it already has a seam.

I followed this whole series exactly and my texture is warped I have no idea how. :(

Thanks for this tutorial, my "get over it" time is done!

at 5:50 you actually making a heart with your hands ❤️ great tutorial, YOU are great! waiting for the next video))