UV Mapping Texture

Illusions

Does anyone have a link to the UV texture we came up with here a few years back to use when looking for UV stretching while unwrapping? I think it was the one with the circles, etc.

Steve Schulze

Ah UV Madness. Props to whoever made this thing originally.

Or theres a higher res version, along with a couple of other UV textures in a zipfile here:
http://www.dannyngan.com/tools/download/uvUtilities.zip

MoP

I think it was Sinistergfx who made that one. It's pretty useful!

sinistergfx

Oops, somehow it got lost when I redid my website. I'll make sure to put it back up in my tools section.

Ryno

I like mine better. If you are doing normal maps, it is good to know if the UVs are flipped, which letters or numbers will indicate.

sinistergfx

That's what the smaller colored circles in the corners are for in mine, but I guess it's kinda cryptic :P.

thomasp

do you guys really use (and like) such colorful, contrasty maps? i tend to use a low contrast image that enables me to clearly see my uv's in the editor window rather than distracting my eye...

sinistergfx

Yes.

...And in Max you can enable/disable dimming of the texture in the uv editor.

Ghostscape

I use this, I don't remember where I found it it was about 3-4 years ago?

Color, letters, circles, and it even lets me check pixel density because it has a faint per-pixel checker.

Illusions

Thanks guys, exactly what I was looking for

Eric Chadwick

That was mine. Added sinistergfx' circles to my old one.

http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/images/testgrid_circles.tif
http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/images/testgrid.tif

We also have a joke one around the office called breastgrid. A bit easier on the eyes, that one.