Chess Boards

3D Model

So I’ve been working on a Christmas ornament model, but baking the normal map (figuring out how to unwrap the sphere so that it bakes as a seamless texture) has been giving me so much trouble. So I decided to take a break from that for today and go back to another one of my old model projects, and give it a touch-up.

These chessboards looked completely different before I remodeled them. The dimensions were all wrong, and the UVs were skewed. I always cringe a little when I go back to my old models and see messy they are, but that also makes me grateful for how far I’ve come with my 3D modeling skill.

ANYWAY. I plan to maybe model some chess pieces for these boards, but I’m not sure which one I should model first. What do you think? Which chess board do you like more?