‘perfect’ mirrored symmetry? The problem we’ve experienced is one half will be slightly larger or ever so slightly skewed. To reproduce; Take a sphere, torus, or other polygon mesh primitive and cut it in half with your edge selections, then unfold. Take one half of the mesh’s UVs, then mirror/flip them to overlay the other half. Is it an *exact* match?
Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 2:55 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: maya uv tool broken? It does symmetry within each shell AFAIK. On 9 Sep 2014 04:13, "Matt Lind" <ml...@carbinestudios.com<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote: If Maya is using the same Unfold3D as Softimage, then artists will still need to go to another software for UV layout because Unfold3D lacks very basic functionality required for certain types of work. For example, unfolding a symmetrical object an having the resulting UVs laid out symmetrically to reflect the geometry's shape. Unfold3D is very poor with that. Matt -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 10:59 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: maya uv tool broken? Hello, Unfold3d is build directly in Maya 2015 and accessible directly from the UV Editor menu. Then, there is a Bonus Tools which is a mel script that takes you step-by-step into setting up things and then call unfold. That's not a new tool, but it's been updated to use the new Unfold3d. I figured that if you knew how to use Softimage's Unfold3D you may not need the Bonus Tools. It's worth checking out all the changes in UV Editor and unfolding in the two separate sections here: http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2015/ENU/?guid=New_in_Modeling The team has studied UVLayout; going to it shouldn't be necessary for anything. On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Manuel Huertas Marchena <lito...@hotmail.com<mailto:lito...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > "I don't know The bonus tool predates 2015 and the new workflows ." what > do you mean? sorry it might be obvious but usually I use uvlayout for > this type of task, so I am trying to find the "best" way to approach > uvs inside maya to rely less in uvlayout for simple geo. > My approach in xsi was usually do all ("simple geo") uvs in xsi and > complex geo unwrap, uvs packing, uv islands ratio inside uvlayout. I > am now replacing xsi for maya and will like to keep the same workflow. > So if the "uvtool" is supposed to be "the new way" of unwrapping > meshes in maya 2015, I was asking why is not included by default? but > again being a bit new, I am surely missing something obvious :)
