UV Space Question.

samwoodart

Hey guys!

I'm sorry if theres been a thread posted here before, I'm relatively new to Polycount and I don't know where else to ask.

Anyway, on to the fun stuff.

Is there a way to take a snapshot of half the UV sheet? I use Maya 2015. I'm trying to snapshot a 512 x 1024 UV sheet, but Maya keeps compressing my UVs.

The First Image is my UV layout - and the second the weird "squishing" it is doing - after I set it to my resolution.

Again. I'm sorry if this is simple or already been answered. Google search couldn't save me this time

Joost

Can't you just render it 1x1 and then crop in photoshop?

samwoodart

Joost wrote: »

Can't you just render it 1x1 and then crop in photoshop?

Hey mate! Thanks for replying!

Yes, I can, thank you very much for the suggestion. I feel quite dumb that the solution is that easy.

Joost

sorry,
I had a bit of a derp moment and didn't really think about why you wanted half your uv template.
If you're trying to make a 2x1 texture then that won't work. You'll have to scale your uvs up (*2) to fill the width of the uv space and then squash the texture in photoshop to 1024x512 for example. Not sure if that's the proper workflow for maya.

Moosebish

With your current layout, select all the shells and scale them horizontally to fill the whole space. Then export the UVs as 512x1024. It will squish them again, to what you actually wanted.

Deadly Nightshade

You can do that with this:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/nightshade-uv-editor

samwoodart

Moosebish wrote: »

With your current layout, select all the shells and scale them horizontally to fill the whole space. Then export the UVs as 512x1024. It will squish them again, to what you actually wanted.

Thanks mate, this is exactly what I wanted. Thank you for the help!

samwoodart

Deadly Nightshade wrote: »

You can do that with this:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/nightshade-uv-editor

Oh. My. God.

How have I not known about this beforehand haha! You sir have changed my life! Thank you for the reply and the great find.

huffer

Hehe "great find" Deadly Nightshade! :P

Deadly Nightshade

samwoodart wrote: »

Oh. My. God.

How have I not known about this beforehand haha! You sir have changed my life! Thank you for the reply and the great find.

Thank you! ^^
That is kinda my goal with that tool. The native Maya UV tools have been lacking for so long. Autodesk keeps saying "we´ve improved the UV tools" for every new version of Maya since they implemented Unfold3D - but in reality the updates are miniscule at best.

If you have an Autodesk account you can vote for it´s official implementation here:
http://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160514-ideas-for-maya-forum/suggestions/7128644-implement-nightshade-uv-editor-into-maya