Flatten by smoothing group for Maya??

micropolius

Hi there,
In max I like to use flatten by smoothing group for unwrapping hardsurface models.

In a nut shell. It's like telling Maya to split the UV's into UV-shells based on hard / soft edge.

Does maya 2017 have this function? Can someone shed some light on this matter?

Joopson

You can planar map the mesh or part of the mesh you'd like to do this to, then run this script to select hard edges:

polySelectConstraint -mode 3 -type 0x8000 -sm 1;

resetPolySelectConstraint;

And then just use the Cut UV Edges tool, and unfold the resulting islands.

micropolius

Thank you for usefull information. I found a script that does exactly what I need.
http://polycount.com/discussion/174582/adn-modeler-tools-smart-modeling-scripts-for-maya/p2

ADN modeller + Automap function