max 2012 uv pelt vs peel?

Rockley Bonner

the Highlighted part to the left was uved using peel but the rest where done using pelt. The HL UV island I did using peel because for some reason I couldent get pelt to work on it. Will there be a difference when I start texturing it? why are the verts in the peeled UV island highlighted blue? Why didnt pelt work like it did on the other parts?

thanks yall!

respawnrt

They are all pinned down.If you pin a vertex in peel mode you can move it while the algorithm works in real time so to speak.Usually you only pin a couple and move em to straightem or make a part that was big smaller.I never ever used pelt, i mostly use peel or lscm but sometimes i still prefer relax but anyways, i might peel and relax after a bit to get better results or something like that.

Rockley Bonner

Ok, so theoretically, I could unpin them and then relax? (cant access max at the moment)

respawnrt

Yes yes

Rockley Bonner

awsome, Thanks man !

Bigjohn

There isn't too much of a difference. Peel has the advantage of showing you the result of seam-cuts in real-time. But that's about it. Also peel lets you pin down points, as you have found. This makes it easier to unwrap more complex stuff like hands, as you can just pin down the fingers.