I have a cylinder with several extrusions applied to it.

Basically:

• create cylinder

• select top edge, extrude

• scale horizontally (in x/y)

• extrude

• move vertically (in z)

  ... and so on ...

Simplified to 1 extrusion it looks like this:

Problem

The problem I have is the unwrapping. When I UV-unwrap it via cylinder projection I get the uv-map of the 1st image. However this is only the horizontal area. The vertical area as shown in the 2nd image is just a flat line which of course leads to a stretched image when a texture is applied.

Question

How do you properly unwrap that object? Using "Smart UV Project" creates rings from it. Which takes away valuable uv space. Isn't there a way to e. g. flatten the cylinder? Think of stretching it in length. After some investigation the most fitting solution I found was to do a normal unwrap and then use UVSquares. Or is there a better approach?

The full example with the problem looks like this:

Thank you very much for the help!

I have a cylinder with several extrusions applied to it.

Basically:

• create cylinder

• select top edge, extrude

• scale horizontally (in x/y)

• extrude

• move vertically (in z)

  ... and so on ...

Simplified to 1 extrusion it looks like this:

Problem

The problem I have is the unwrapping. When I UV-unwrap it via cylinder projection I get the uv-map of the 1st image. However this is only the vertical area. The horizontal area as shown in the 2nd image is just a flat line which of course leads to a stretched image when a texture is applied.

Question

How do you properly unwrap that object? Using "Smart UV Project" creates rings from it. Which takes away valuable uv space. Isn't there a way to e. g. flatten the cylinder? Think of stretching it in length. After some investigation the most fitting solution I found was to do a normal unwrap and then use UVSquares. Or is there a better approach?

The full example with the problem looks like this:

Thank you very much for the help!

I have a cylinder with several extrusions applied to it.

Basically:

create cylinder
select top edge, extrude
scale horizontally (in x/y)
extrude
move vertically (in z)
... and so on ...

Simplified to 1 extrusion it looks like this:

Problem

The problem I have is the unwrapping. When I UV-unwrap it via cylinder projection I get the uv-map of the 1st image. However this is only the horizontal area. The vertical area as shown in the 2nd image is just a flat line which of course leads to a stretched image when a texture is applied.

Question

How do you properly unwrap that object? Using "Smart UV Project" creates rings from it. Which takes away valuable uv space. Isn't there a way to e. g. flatten the cylinder? Think of stretching it in length. After some investigation the most fitting solution I found was to do a normal unwrap and then use UVSquares. Or is there a better approach?

The full example with the problem looks like this:

Thank you very much for the help!

I have a cylinder with several extrusions applied to it.

Basically:

• create cylinder

• select top edge, extrude

• scale horizontally (in x/y)

• extrude

• move vertically (in z)

  ... and so on ...

Simplified to 1 extrusion it looks like this:

Problem

The problem I have is the unwrapping. When I UV-unwrap it via cylinder projection I get the uv-map of the 1st image. However this is only the horizontal area. The vertical area as shown in the 2nd image is just a flat line which of course leads to a stretched image when a texture is applied.

Question

How do you properly unwrap that object? Using "Smart UV Project" creates rings from it. Which takes away valuable uv space. Isn't there a way to e. g. flatten the cylinder? Think of stretching it in length. After some investigation the most fitting solution I found was to do a normal unwrap and then use UVSquares. Or is there a better approach?

The full example with the problem looks like this:

Thank you very much for the help!