Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 12, 2014 Advanced Member Share Posted March 12, 2014 I am trying to texture some hair but by uvs are all on little islands of their own. Each chunk of hair basically needs to share the same area of texture space as the next so I can really maximize the resolution. How do I go about doing this? I need to straighten out and scale all the islands and then place them on top of each other, but I can't even figure out how to move an individual vertex inside the uv preview window. Can anyone help? I have attached an example texture of what I am attempting to map to. You can see there are just a few straight strips and the detail level is high. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted March 12, 2014 Contributor Share Posted March 12, 2014 (...)but I can't even figure out how to move an individual vertex inside the uv preview window. Can anyone help? With this I can help you. To move vertices in the UV preview window you need to select Mark Seams, then Vertices from the top bar and a vertex from the UV window. Voila. You can use various E-panel modes too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 12, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 12, 2014 That's it. Fantastic. Now I have the knowledge but I wander how long it will take to align everything? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 12, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 12, 2014 Actually, this looks like it will be completely impossible or take about a week of solid vertex pushing. Is there a better way. I used the brush which helped a bit but it will still take forever..isn't there some kind of 'set islands to square' button somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Unfortunately not quickly in 3DC. If you have Modo I can tell you a way to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 13, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 13, 2014 I can use a trial. What's the trick? I'd love to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 May be the new method of unwrapping - GU (globally ungorm unfolding) along with ABF, LSCM help Is working fine in the next 4.0.17 release http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10395&p=106024 -4.0.16 implementation is buggy- ------------------------------------------------ Request: An equivalent to "followActiveQuads" UV method or the UVGroups http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1438 please add your +1 if need it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I am trying to texture some hair but by uvs are all on little islands of their own. Each chunk of hair basically needs to share the same area of texture space as the next so I can really maximize the resolution. How do I go about doing this? I need to straighten out and scale all the islands and then place them on top of each other, but I can't even figure out how to move an individual vertex inside the uv preview window. Can anyone help? I have attached an example texture of what I am attempting to map to. You can see there are just a few straight strips and the detail level is high. Cheers You can move vertexes inside the UV room. There you can load your hair texture to set it as an orientation template. Unfortunately only identical UV patches can be overlapped together by using the UV copy paste function inside the UV room. UV patches with different shape and vertex amount will not be overlapped. For understanding overlapping UVs in 3D Coat: - Only identical shapes can be overlapped! - To overlap two patches: Copy patch 1, select the identical target patch and paste your copy. Best wishes Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 13, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) "May be the new method of unwrapping - GU (globally ungorm unfolding) along with ABF, LSCM help" When is version 4.0.17 due out? Thanks P.S Good to know about the copy/paste feature but all my islands differ wildy in number of vertices and shape so I doubt that will help. Edited March 13, 2014 by Grimmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 13, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) I 'think' that this is the kind of functionality I need. It's called 'Peel UVs'. Where a curved UV is mapped planar to the texture (if that makes sense): http://www.unwrap3d.com/u3d/quicktip_peel.aspx Edited March 13, 2014 by Grimmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Request: An equivalent to "followActiveQuads" UV method or the UVGroups http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1438 please add your +1 if need it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimmy Posted March 13, 2014 Author Advanced Member Share Posted March 13, 2014 Request: An equivalent to "followActiveQuads" UV method or the UVGroups http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1438 please add your +1 if need it Okay, I've done this. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Is out http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10395&page=195&p=106357#entry106357 When is version 4.0.17 due out? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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