Weird UV in maya's UV editor. Look atrocious

kreativ

Hi,

Pls check the screenshot. I used Bonus tools' "Auto-unwrap UV tool" and after selecting border edges , got this. http://i.imgur.com/XjpEZvR.png

Please help.

SuperFranky

Looks fine to me. You can relax the islands further to eliminate texture stretching and skewing.

kreativ

why are the checkerboards not underneath the uvs?

SuperFranky

kreativ wrote: »

why are the checkerboards not underneath the uvs?

Should they be? I don't really get what's happening there.

kreativ

SuperFranky wrote: »

Should they be? I don't really get what's happening there.

srry i thought they should be since they were underneath the shells in all tuts that I followed. Seems I was under the wrong impression.

CharacterCarl

kreativ wrote: »

srry i thought they should be since they were underneath the shells in all tuts that I followed. Seems I was under the wrong impression.

It happens that they stay that way inside the UV editor when editing the UVs after using the Auto UV Unwrap tool for some reason. The actual representation in the viewport, however, remains correct, so I just tend to disable the texture preview inside the UV editor or dim it.