Overlapping UVs in Maya

Alismuffin

Heya!

Is there a quick way to overlap selected UVshells in may UVEditor?

I have these shells:



And what I essentially need is to be able to make each one scale up to the size of the box. That way they will all overlap each other and I can scale all shells simultaneously

EDIT: Oh and ignore the 2minute texture. It's a proxy till I get this working xD!

Kon Artist

select 1 or more uv for each shell... uv layout options. Allow overlapping... apply. They should all fill the 0,1 uv space on top of each other.

Alismuffin

I have tried:

UVTextureEditor>Polygons>Layout[]>
Layout Objects: Per Object(Overlapping)
Separate shells: Off
Shell layout: Into Region
Scale mode: Stretch to region
Shell Stacking: Bounding Box
Rotate: None


I can't find a "uv layout options" menu anywhere (Using Maya btw)

Alismuffin

If I apply those setting to one shell it puts it exactly where i want it to be, however when I select a lot of shells it does as is seen ion the image above

Kon Artist

sorry I ment Layout UVs options. Doesn't matter, the overlapping option doesn't work:( But, I'm guessing these are all one object. Go into your editor and separate, auto map. This will stack them all on top of each other in the 0,1 uv space. Then you can recombined them if you want to.

Alismuffin

Thanks! That did the trick
Thanks a lot for the help man

Deadly Nightshade

You can always download this:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/texturing/c/nightshade-uv-editor

Has a feature for stacking UV shells. And in case they have different orientation you can also orient UV shells. Two button clicks and you get what you want.

Also - upcomming feature: Matching UV shells. Say that you stack them, and orient them, and the UVs are still not on exactly the same spot? Click another button! I'm planning to add a feature that pushes UV's to their nearest neightbor so that you dont have to do it manually. It will be in version 1.2 for sure.

sybrix

This has been a thorn in my side forever and I always knew there had to be a simpler way to stack shells... thanks!