hey guys

corykanakis2

Here is a picture of my problem. Whenever I try to move UV's a bunch of others come along with it and warp the surrounding UV's. WHat the heck do can be done?

radiancef0rge

you have soft selection on

battlecow

you have soft selection turned on in your tools

corykanakis2

thanks guys. much appreciated. you guys rule.

corykanakis2

son of a #$((!#. Now it's selecting the whole face and when I try to edit some configurations of the UV points it still turns to that thing where it brings other unwanted UV points with it. This is Maya 2011 so I'm not sure if you guys would know how to fix it, but god willing, please help.

Cory Kanakis

corykanakis2

wtf

radiancef0rge

corykanakis2

awesome

corykanakis2

I am trying to texture this block. The UV is in place, but for some reason it's not showing up on the model.

Bartalon

Are you moving the correct UV shell into position? You may have the back side UVs selected instead.

corykanakis2

yeah, im sure

corykanakis2

This is the problem.

Bartalon

I've seen instances where UV movement does not update in real time as you tweak them, kind of an annoying bug. I think you can force the UVs to display properly by grabbing a vertex and moving it, then using undo to put it back.

corykanakis2

I don't know what to do about it. I've reinstalled Maya 2011 and the problem still exists. The UV Map gets automatic mapping treatment for the model, uv snapshot, then into photoshop. Then I put red dots in the middle of each side of the box in Photoshop. Should I use Targa or JPG? Anyway, I then go to apply it to the color channel in Maya and the texture is all messed up, not like it was in the UV editor. Something is wrong here.

ElleKitty

Instead of TGA, use TIFF; instead of JPG, use PNG.
TGA tends to create noise across the image and JPG comes with the famous artefacts, which may look okay in diffuse, but you dont wanna see what it'll do to your normalmaps.
I dont think that the image format change will fix this particular offset issue though.

corykanakis2

Interesting

throttlekitty

Have you tried freezing transforms or clearing the history?

corykanakis2

yeah I've tried that. I don't know whats wrong with the grid system or how to configure it.

radiancef0rge

can you upload your file

Joopson

Go to the UVsets menu and see if there's more than one UV set. I've had that happen before. Then you can delete the extra one.

Also, "b" turns on and off soft-selection.

corykanakis2

How do you delete the extra uv sets?

corykanakis2

By the way, I really appreciate you guys helping me out

Joopson

Click on the UV set you want to delete. This should show the UVS in the editor. Then go to "Polygons>Delete Current UV set"

corykanakis2

Now I'm getting a white box...wtf?

Bartalon

You might be on an empty UV set or your file destination has changed/has not been designated for the Color channel of your material.

corykanakis2

Anybody see a problem with this? I think it has to do with automatic mapping.

Joopson

Can you send me the file? It's impossible to tell without looking at it a little more deeply.

corykanakis2

I cannot send you a mb or ma. It doesn't load.

Joopson

What do you mean?

corykanakis2

When I go to upload the .ma and .mb files it says invalid file.

JohnnyRaptor

In the UV Editor window, open the UV Set menu and take a screengrab and post here,

radiancef0rge

are you trolling or what.

Joopson

You'd have to upload it to dropbox it, or email it, or something.

corykanakis2

k

JohnnyRaptor

With your cube selected, do this from the Create UVs menu






Edit, And if that works for you, you may want to clean up your UV sets, so do the following



1, in the uv editor window, from the UV Sets menu, select uvSet1.

2, should look like this.

3, back in the main maya window, select delete current UV Set from the Create UVs menu.

4, if you double check your UVsets in the UV editor window, it should only show one option.

hope it helps,

corykanakis2

You did it! THanks Man! Now I can continue working.

corykanakis2

you rock