Max - Padding Translation

Ace-Angel

Hey to all the men and women of the great nation of PC,

Quick question, does anyone know the 'true' value of the padding number in Max?

Example, I need 8 pixels or 16 between ma' UV's, but I'm unable to understand what the value 0.1 (or in my case, for some odd reason 0.01) means in terms of pixel translations.

So any help? Much appreciated.

Kurt Russell Fan Club

Do you mean in pack UVs? That number is a distance from 0 to 1, so if you want to know how much it would mean in pixels then you multiply your image width by that number.

So a spacing of 0.02 in a 512px map would be 10.24 pixels.

If you want to go the other way, you need to divide your how much pixel padding you want by the image width. If it's 16px out of a 1024 then do 16/1024= ~0.016

Ace-Angel

Yep, that's it, and wow, I never realized that how they did the math on that, cheers! Much appreciated!

Kurt Russell Fan Club

No worries!

cptSwing

Hey thanks man, didn't know what the number really meant either ;-)