UV: Do I only have the top-right corner to place the UVs or the whole grid?

Aasmund1986

As the topic says, Im wondering if I only have the top-right corner to place the UVs or the whole grid?

And yes, Im very novice to UVing

harry1511

You have 0-1 space as your primary texture area, outside of it, everything will just be tillable.

Aasmund1986

So if I use the other 3 other areas of the grid, can I still paint on them when I import the .fbx in Substance-Painter?

Moosebish

Here's an easy way to fix it. If you laid out your shells outside the 0 to 1 space, into 0 to -1, -1 to 1, etc. Here's an easy way to remedy it:


Here's your shells outside the 0 to 1


Select them and move your scale pivot up to 1, 1. Like so:


Then scale your shells in both U and V directions until they fit nicely into the 0 to 1 space:


Problem solved!

Aasmund1986

Thanks, this is great help!
Im wondering how the improved UV tool in MayaLT 2016 is, when it comes out 26 march

harry1511

You can still paint it in Substance Painter for sure. Just remember that, whatever&wherever you put down in 0-1 space, it will be repeated to other 3 quadrants at the exact same spot.

Moosebish

I use Maya 2014 to unwrap. The only plugin I use, for UV mapping, is Nightshade's UV Editor. Its has some amazing tools that I couldn't live without.

Once you get a good workflow down, there's nothing wrong with Maya's UV tools..

Aasmund1986

I didnt understand how important UVing was until I got on a team that develope a game that comes on Steam. UVing is the most important task in modeling and texturing.

pmiller001

I've had very good success with Headus UV Layout.