How To Freeze Texel Resolution In Maya?

allengingrich

I've never really paid close attention to texel res until recently. I have a model unwrapped and the texture res uniform. How do I freeze it so I can begin fitting together my final UV map? Thanks!

oglu

the easiest way is to use uv autoratio....
http://renderheads.com/product/uv-autoratio-pro/

huffer

You don't need to freeze anything, just don't scale UV shells, after you brought them to your target texel density.

allengingrich

huffer said:

You don't need to freeze anything, just don't scale UV shells, after you brought them to your target texel density.

So get my checkers all the same then never scale UV shells after that -- just make them fit?

huffer

Yup, that's it, if you fit them and have some space left, you can scale all of them at once to occupy the empty space (increasing your texel density); or scale some small parts larger (for better texel density on small parts that might need it).