Blender - How to offset UVs?

drpeppercan

Unwrapping with Smart UV Project gives me nice packed UVs. However, I find better results for Texture Painting when there's a few pixels around each island.
Unfortunately doing this manually for dozens of islands can be quite tedious and time-consuming.

Is there a Blender feature/addon to do that?

Thanks guys,

JDL

Eric Chadwick

Why not just increase the Island Margin?
http://www.blender.org/manual/editors/uv_image/unwrapping.html#smart-uv-project

drpeppercan

Exactly what I was looking for! 
Thank you so much Eric

DPC

Michael Knubben

Or, select all your islands, set the pivot to 'Individual Origins' and scale away! That way you don't have to re-unwrap, if you've already laid out all your islands the way you wanted.

edit: Image!

drpeppercan

Of course! This is great! Thank you so much for sharing MP  

Prime8

If you use the "Pack Islands" function from the UV windows you can set the margin as well. Pack Islands is quite useful anyway in case you unwrap without the Smart UV Project.

Madison Aya

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