Speedy Unwrapping

Fusobotic

Just curious if anybody knew about this interesting feature that Blender has. Would you say Blender's UV unwrapping rivals other suites? I don't use it very much because of Zbrush's nifty UV Master, but I might give it another try if I want to be precise and fast. Anyone know of any other awesome methods of unwrapping besides Blender/Zbrush?

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Shiniku

I usually just use 3DS Max with the TexTools plugin (if the version of Max I'm using supports it.)

I'm pretty fast with it and it gives me a lot of control. A lot of friends of mine swear by Headus UV as well, but I've never tried it.

seven

modo's default unwrapping tools are pretty awesome. The addition of ETEREA UV Tools in modo is also pretty handy.

3DKnight

Roadkill Standalone is all I use.

very fast and clean

CrazyMatt

Unfold 3D and Maya

Fusobotic

Holy crap, TexTools looks really slick. I'd never heard of it before... Thanks Shiniku, I'll give it a try!

Swizzle

seven wrote: »

modo's default unwrapping tools are pretty awesome. The addition of ETEREA UV Tools in modo is also pretty handy.

Holy crap, you just made my day. This looks fantastic.

Mark Dygert

3dsmax, point to poiint seams, break, relax.
Or
select faces, quick peel.

Memory

I use default Max tools. Grab all faces, planar, select edge for seams that I want, break, relax, quick peel, or straighten faces as necessary. Then maybe hit re-scale button to unify texel density and pack normalize.

Joao Sapiro

i always create cuts in the uvws and relax it, produces the best unwraps in seconds.

Kbrom12

Headus UVLayout...that and default 3ds max tools

Blaizer

The newer unfold 3d does MAGIC!

It's better than modo or any other package such as uvlayout, umbrella, etc.

St.Sabath

I use Maya,Zbrush,or Unfold 3d.Depends on the object.
Sometimes using maya while hotboxing in the uv editor is the fastest.
on more complicated geo,and when i dont have a lot of time i grab unfold 3d(amazing application for pelt mapping btw)so im in full control of my seams very fast,or zbrush plug.
Sometimes to speed things up i bash the mesh into Unfold3D,pelt where i want the seams to be,not looking at the facetension,bring it back in maya and finish it off there,since i need to texture it in Maya if its a non baked asset anyway..

Suba

Unfold 3d et UV Layout are the best in my opinion. Quick and easy !

TheWildHunt

Stock max editor for me with textools for minor functions like linear flatten,on some islands for better packimg. I might be a bit slower than others, but I have no problem unwrapping a 15k+ character in one working day if I get coffee first.

SurlyBird

Seneca's SuperUVs for Modo are pretty spectacular, too.

skankerzero

Headus UVLayout then into Max (chuggnuts) to fine tune.

I can unwrap character models in several hours. (on average 3 or 4)

such as:


or

Torch

Surprised no one mentioned 3D Coat, has a pretty good unwrapping system

leslievdb

i use 3dcoat and a 3ds max/textools combo
i like 3d coat because you can unwrap while retopping, the packing is nice but basic
I`m still looking for a package that can pack uvs with certain conditions like do not rotate these uvshells, keep these uvshells together etc...

Mongrelman

Been using Blender for uvmapping for years, I can do it in Maya too, but overall I've not seen a reason to move from Blender. Though I'd like better uv packing tools.

Baj Singh

Max - Quick peel/textools combo. Works a treat.

JoshVanZuylen

Hmmmm, I might have to have a look Into said tools... I have been using stock maya. And have gotten pretty good with it. But if these are better the well hehe.

JacqueChoi

3DKnight wrote: »

Roadkill Standalone is all I use.

very fast and clean

This.

BTW, Roadkill is the UV Editor ripped from Blender.

^_^

onionhead_o

skankerzero: those uvs are nicely packed. was it all manual placement or some tools that you used in max?

RexM

Deluxe UV with Maya works great. I also use unitize and then select all the edges I want sewn, leaving the seams unselected, and then hitting move/sew. Then unwrap in u or v, and that piece is done.

3DKnight

JacqueChoi wrote: »

This.

BTW, Roadkill is the UV Editor ripped from Blender.

^_^

ahhh I didn't know that! interesting

peanut™

onionhead_o wrote: »

skankerzero: those uvs are nicely packed. was it all manual placement or some tools that you used in max?

Skankerzero uses Headus with the "f" automatic flatten device and fine-tunes the resulting created UV map in 3dsmax with the chuggnuts UVtools.

I thought i was the only one who figured this out. Thanks for showing that my workflow was making sense.

onionhead_o

peanut™: I was referring to the uv packing not the unfolding part of uving. From what I remember few years back when i used chuggnuts Uvtools once, there isn't really any specific UV packing tool.

3DFM

Onion: Headus has got a nice function for packing UV's. Not sure about cuggnuts, but personally I just import my models back into headus after some smalls tweaks in my main program and then hit that big green button, sit back and relax.

onionhead_o

3DFM: i see, never knew that Headus has that function. Back when I use max 2009, I rely on Textools, which has some of the best tools. Now most of the essential tools are incorporated in the new Edit UVW, pretty much eliminate the need to export into a external program. Peel with Seams is pretty much Roadkill.

WarrenM

No matter what Headus does, you're always going to be better off packing it yourself. Just my experience, anyway. There's always room for improvement in any automated system.

Neox

skankerzero wrote: »

Headus UVLayout then into Max (chuggnuts) to fine tune.

I can unwrap character models in several hours. (on average 3 or 4)

such as:


or

is 3-4hrs for a character unwrap supposed to be fast? i'd go crazy if unwrapping a single character would take me half a day.
I do it as ravenslayer, on the fly in 3dcoat while retopoing, then relax it in max, straighten and puzzle it. Should not be more than an hour - depending on the complexity of a character obviously.
However, another question. You have 2 faces on the bottom uv layout, they seem to have the same topology, why are the unwraps so different?

LordSebbington

seven wrote: »

The addition of ETEREA UV Tools in modo is also pretty handy.

Had to say thank you for this