Creating a simple puzzle in Blender

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Hi!

Im sitting right now trying to figure out how to make a puzzle in Blender. What i did was:

  • Created vector svg of the puzzle bits and imported them.
  • I extruded them and smoothed the sides.

Now im trying to unwrap the puzzle but i can only get one puzzle piece in that unwrap image.
Then i tried to join them together to be able to unwrap multiple puzzle pieces but then everything
gets distorted.

I would be so grateful if anyone could help me out with this issue! Big thanks!

PS. How do you delete attachments, under “handle attachments tab”? Tried to change one of them but failed. I hope you understand me anyway. Thanks again.

/Carl

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Maybe after joining all the objects as a single one, instead of the U -> Unwrap, set your view to top and press U -> Project from View ?

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  1. Object mode, select pieces, ctrl+A -> scale to apply object scales
  2. Join (ctrl+J)
  3. Edit mode, select top faces, add another material and assign that to selected by pressing the assign button
  4. Top view, ortho viewmode (numpad 7 and 5), top faces still selected U -> project from view. You could then open your image in uv/image editor and scale the UV’s (S to scale). Then add that image as a texture for the material and it should render.