SOLVED: How do I add a UV map?

Deadly Nightshade

I need to be able to see the UV shells when painting masks, but haven´t found any way of adding it. There is no option for it under "Add new map", and I can´t get a custom map working on a simple fill layer.

Add clean layer > Dynamask editor > "More" > Import grunge mask
Now I have a smart object in the layer panel, and dDo is waiting for me to hit enter. This is all very unintuitive. The software is waiting for user feedback without even giving much of a hint of it, and even after you´ve confirmed the smart object import, nothing really happens. No mask has been added to my Color Fill layer - all I got is a smart object with a white mask in the layer editor. Nothing appears under Shared > Custom in the Dynamask editor either - does this mean that the grunge mask import failed? This is what I mean when I say that the software is unintuitive: it leaves the user clueless as to what to do next. It´s things like this that UX-nerds will rage about.

So what is the correct way of adding UVs so I can see where I paint?

CKohl

I just paste my UVs in above the custom mask layer when dynamask is open and set them to Screen.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2259499#post2259499

Deadly Nightshade

Yea I tried doing that and what happend was that this mask was applied to a whole lot of other materials than just the one I was working on. So I tried deleting the mask but it keeps re-appearing.

Wiktor

Thanks for reporting this. I'll forward this as a suggestion.

Deadly Nightshade

Okay, awesome!

Btw it would be great if this was setup rather smoothly so that the user only have to think about loading the UV map during the base creation, and later easily could cycle between different UV modes. Something like this:
White UVs - 1x UV Layer with blend mode @ screen
Black UVs - 2x UV Layers with blend modes @ screen (bottom layer) and exclusion (top layer)
Inverted UVs - 1x UV Layer with blend mode @ difference

Eric Ramberg

We´ve actually started looking in to having the UV-map overlayed on the mesh somehow, maybe that will appear in the future, I personally think it would be very helpful!