Hello,
I am not sure if authors intended to write a book as step by step tutorial, but you can consider changing a content of this paragraph.
"To start creating a UV texture, you need to switch to Edit mode and call the UV Mapping menu (U). This menu has different mapping options. We will be using the first one, Unwrap, which is a semi-automatic way to calculate the optimal stretching for the 2D texture. The result can be seen and edited in the UV/Image Editor."
In order to make it working before unwrapping I had to select all vertices in edit mode (A) and then unwrapped the surface (U). But even before that it makes sense for some readers to apply Scale (Ctrl+A -> select Scale)
Hello, I am not sure if authors intended to write a book as step by step tutorial, but you can consider changing a content of this paragraph.
"To start creating a UV texture, you need to switch to Edit mode and call the UV Mapping menu (U). This menu has different mapping options. We will be using the first one, Unwrap, which is a semi-automatic way to calculate the optimal stretching for the 2D texture. The result can be seen and edited in the UV/Image Editor."
In order to make it working before unwrapping I had to select all vertices in edit mode (A) and then unwrapped the surface (U). But even before that it makes sense for some readers to apply Scale (Ctrl+A -> select Scale)
Regards, Igor M