How can I get rid of original EA texture for a new object?

Hi! I actually at the beginning got rid of the residual map, but for some reason I'm unable to get rid of the 'diffuse.001'? Is that what is causing the problem? I'll link the photo (here).

It might also be how I did the UV wrapping? I'm kind of stuck on the right way to do it for this object because of the rounded parts. I've tried to scale down the UV mapping but it ends up keeping the outlines of it when I go to recolor and upload it onto S4S. It's so weird.

Here is the blend and package files: here!

Thanks so much for your help!

Sure, no problem! Thanks again!

Hi! Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this to me. I think I didn't take too much notice of the poly because I've seen a lot of creators on tumblr use a high amount for really HD-looking cc (and my computer can handle a lot of that), and their UV map has soooooo many faces I don't know how they can get it so smooth without having issues like mine (lack of knowledge for me, really). But I will be careful with how high I go from now on! I'm modeling this side table off of this one here, so that's why I've used so many faces for the circles. I would still like to keep the circles similar to what I've been doing but if it makes it so everything is so messed up then I'll try my best to lessen the amount. I got some help on a blender forum and they explained how to make the circles, which previously I had no idea how to do so, so that's why it has so many faces I think.

Edge split has been wonderful for me using it! I also got stuck at a brick wall because I've used subsurface modifier which created so many extra faces, but I'll try to keep it at using smooth instead! I had trouble getting my top/bottom to be round and that modifier did the trick but added too many faces to my object and some loop cuts I didn't want.

So seeing what you did with the cylinders and I do get what you mean. I'm starting at the beginning (like this) and I still want to somewhat keep as many faces around, but do you mean making the faces like this (here)? Is this too many cuts? So then I will add the smoothing on it will it look smoother with the pointed edges?

Also, I did end up finding a way to reduce the faces (now down to 5k) of my original one but I'm stuck now because when I tried to texture it, it still ended up looking like this in s4s (here) with still some weird shadowing and lines like before. I've gotten rid of the mid-cut lines and it does look better but still not great. On the bottom underneath it has some weird lines show up also. I've uploaded the blender and package file (here), of course only if you want to take a look, or have the time to! I just thought I would try this also just in case to see how it would do.

Apologizes for the late response! I'm so sorry if I'm asking for too much help. I understand if it's too much to deal with so your help has been much appreciated.

Oh my gosh thank you so so much! I actually did not know a lot of what you went into detail about so I appreciate it so much. You've been so much help to me, and I can now see that I was just doing way too much when it could have been much easier and done better. I really need to practice more with blender and understand how to use it to help me with what I want to do.

I actually used limited dissolve and that really messed up the mesh, as you can see. You've explained things so clearly, which I really appreciate because I do feel like I learn things slower than others. So I'm always putting a lot of myself into learning which makes me burn out quickly when I'm at my wits end. Also, thank you so much for the blend file, too! I was able to see how it looked with what you did it and I understand it so much better. Thanks for linking the video! I will keep both this post and video in my favorites to come back to when I might need it.

Thank you again!

Hi again! I hope you are having a good week so far and staying clear of the current outbreak!

So I'm back with a question about making these cylinders and I hope I'm not being an inconvenience with helping this specific thing but I'm kind of stuck doing the array modifier? I have two questions: 1) I looked at the number of counts you did (70, what it looks like here) and I wanted to do that same amount but for some reason I have gaps between my cylinders (here)? I don't know how to fix that and I have to keep doing it over and over again to figure it out but haven't been able to. 2) When I've tried to scale it down to fit where I want it to it creates this weird shape (here)? Is there a way to scale it down that doesn't do that?

I'm actually wanting to share this collection publicly (I'm doing all the tables they have) so I wanted to try to do this myself but I'm kind of stumped here and not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thanks so much again!