Advanced Member MariuszKolo Posted March 5, 2018 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hi, I would like to propose a development idea for tool to automatically pack UV in multiple UDIM tiles. I am working at VFX office and some of "hero assets" need to use multiple UDIM tiles ( 10-50 x4K maps). We missing in 3dcoat tool which could help us with that. We have to process models through Houdini to be able to paint multi-udim in Mari. I would like to ask if it would be possible to add this kind of option to 3dcoat to skip this additional step for us in houdini. Few example of tool which I would love to have in 3d coat: modo example: houdini example: maya (at 7:28) example: Please let me know If you need more specyfics or more info about this idea. Thanks Best Mariusz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hi This video covers (in more detail) the recent addition of UV tile support in 3D Coat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member MariuszKolo Posted March 5, 2018 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) Hi , Thank you for quick answer. So according to wideo which you shared: Can you create a tool to automatically pack uv and create multiple uv sets in 3d coat ( to be equivalent of mutli-UDIM tools which I refereed in my examples)? If its possible to 'adapt 3d coat native workflow' to get workflow from another apps 1. Stage unwrap of a object 2. then specify how many unique uv sets we want ( UDIMs) 3. confirm the choice and the 3d coat will automatically create desired numbers of uv sets , rename them and automatically spread uv islands through them 4. soo when I will load object with applink in 3ds max I will get multiudim layout ? Edited March 5, 2018 by MariuszKolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 On 6/28/2017 at 12:21 PM, digman said: 3DC has no true internal UDIM tiling creation like Maya or similar applications. You can import UDIM as tiles " Import Tiles as uv sets" 3DC will create a UV set for each tile. When exporting choose, " Export UV sets as Tiles" and they will be put back in a tiling order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member MariuszKolo Posted March 6, 2018 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) Thank Carlosan for all your help. I understand that in current stage of development of 3d coat- UDIM support is a some walk around. You already answer me how to import and export UDIM using upsets.Thank you for that. My question is: Would be possible to add function to pack UV to multiple UVset automatically? In wideo which you shared is shown how to make this manually and I would like to have some automatic solution because if you need to unwrap and unpack let say 20 object with 30 uv-sets each in 1h that manual approach is not cost effective and tedious. workflow example: After you unwrap a model you can specify in "new too"l that you would like to pack this islands based of they size to fill for example 4 uv sets. Then 3d coat should calculate optimal position and rotation and scale and spread the uv island through 4 new create UVsets. Process should keep relationship of the scale of individual island during UV packing at new created uv sets ( 4 uv sets for example) Then I would be able to easily send model with applink to 3ds max and I should get proper multiUdim layout with uv tiles named "name".1001, "name".1002, "name".1003,.....etc Do you know what I mean? Please see attachment Edited March 6, 2018 by MariuszKolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 - Would be possible to add function to pack UV to multiple UVset automatically ? At this time of development the process is manual. If it can be done automatically -as future development- it is a question that exceeds my knowledge and I have no answer. So please send this feature requests to Andrew Shpagin at support@3dcoat.com Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member MariuszKolo Posted March 6, 2018 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 Thank you Carlosan for all your help. I will send email to support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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