(3ds Max) Nothing shows up in Unwrap UVW Editor

Manilla

Hi, I'm new to 3ds Max trying to make clothing for a chatgame, and I managed in making an UVW Map in 3ds Max 2012 today on a male tanktop. I'm making a female sweater in 3ds Max 2010 right now and everything is finished, but when I apply the Unwrap UVW modifier and hit 'Edit...', simply nothing shows up. Like the sweater isn't there. I've been trying to get something in there for almost an hour now. It's driving me crazy so I hope someone knows why this is or how to fix it, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

This is my sweater: http://gyazo.com/762b1951fe4a93a6f3656a8be843d564 and this shows up in the Editor: http://gyazo.com/d13dece6231c2c4bddf1df6378abccbd

gammaRascal

It could also be a sacaling thing - if it was based on another mesh or if the units are too big or too small. I would go into face selection, hit ctrl-a to select them all and drop a planar on it so at least it will scale into the window and you can see it.

Broadway

If your modifier stack is Editable Poly > Unwrap UVW, and you're in 'Face Mode' in the Editable Poly modifier but you don't have any faces of your model selected, and then you click 'Open UV Editor...' in the Unwrap UVW modifier, nothing will show in the window. (Check out the picture to see the modifier setup I'm trying to describe)



If you're in Face Mode, as above, the UV Window will only show the faces you have selected.

Maybe this is what's happening?

.morph3us

If the above doesnt help try the following:

Select your mesh, hit the hammer symbol tab on youzr command panel, there you will be able to reset the xforms.
add a uvw map modifier and collapse your tanktop.
now add an uvw unwrap modifier

Manilla

Thanks everyone! I've built the mesh from 'scratch' (I'm not that familiar with 3d terms) so I haven't imported or exported, nor did anything with scaling. I'm gonna try the Face Mode thing, maybe I messed up on that. Thank you!!

Manilla

@gammaRascal, that worked! thank you!!!

Manilla

Ok I keep running into problems. I'm trying to make the map and while I'm moving everything, the different view options become 'unclickable'. (http://gyazo.com/7da8c76624a48715397c3c99be007792) Can you turn the view anywhere else? And does anyone know why they become uncilckable?

gammaRascal

You need to have a planar, cylindrical, spherical or box projection map enabled first before you can align it to XYZ/fit/view/center

Manilla

oh thanks