Vertices Won't Join?

Have you tried using mark seam?

No, I don't want to merge them, I just wanted all those separate parts to be "connected" together? Like when I press L, I can select one part(highlighted in the picture) while the rest is not highlighted, I was wondering if I could just connect this entire thing? Because When I say press L on one part, and then shift rmb other vertices/faces then I can join them momentarily, but after I deselect, the thing is back to as it was again.

Seams are somehow appear transparent in S4S. Like there's a hole in there ?


UPDATE- I was able to carefully unwrap to get rid of the said issue (I did not use seams) but the selected areas where seams must have been applied, are all transparent in S4S studio (see-through). Here's what I mean:


P.S. The diffuse map is a baked ambient occlusion, is that why?

Further Update - So obviously if I turn the transparent area opaque, I can fill the gaps but it looks weird. Most importantly however, I have major seam issues appearing and they look horrible. And I just can't figure out how to hide them, everything online is too complicated for a newbie.

Okay, thank you! here's the .blend:this & package:this

Oh... thank you! I'll try increasing the margin and bake... yes the table is very high poly.. free meshes found online for public use, but they're so beautiful I wanted to use them by breaking up in parts...
Also is there a better way to get shadows & lighting onto the texture? Because it is hard/impossible for me to create diffusemaps through photoshop, I was wondering if there was a way I could imprint them onto a plain colored image like the Ambient Occlusion map...but something more accurate..?

UPDATE- Looks good enough in-game! I do have one last problem: The table is somewhat see-through(not transparent though, somewhat translucent)? In the previous picture if you notice, some of the "outlines" of the objects(door) behind the table is visible. I also had this problem in one part of the mesh of a ts3 item in-game that I converted.. what is this and how can it be solved?

And how can I hide seams? I saw a video about softening, but couldn't really understand how that works...

Thanks..

I did change the specular, so that's not probably why.. I tried the SSAO intensity tutorial fixed it thank you!!

Any methods I can dissolve UV seam issues in texturing?

Like the one in the "tubular" part/"stem" of the table (in brown).. there's also a seam on the tabletop, but that one's pretty hidden now... altough the seam remains the same on the part below..visible from only this side..

Easy fix! You just need to extend the dark part of your texture in those areas out a bit farther to each side. Like this:



That's actually farther than it probably needs to be extended, but you get the idea