How do you arrange UV islands?

.csm

Usually it is a tedious task for me. Take a weapon for example. There are many seperated UV islands, from small to big. Do you arrange the many islands by hand and find their best place by eye or you have a fast and quick procedure to arrange all the islands into a logical layout? I could use the pack islands command (blender), but it just mess up everything and makes the texturing painful in photoshop.

Rurouni Strife

A lot of people have started using iPackThat. It's a program that does it all for you and does it very well. Look into it. 

AtticusMars

I just eyeball it, I only really unwrap characters though which aren't that bad (usually). If I were going to do an unwrap on something complex like a gun then I would basically be kicking IPackThat's door down with my wallet out.

Eric Chadwick

We've had some good threads about unwrapping and packing.
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Coordinates#UV_Tutorials

.csm

Thanks, I am checking out those tutorials and iPackThat. However, iPackThat seems buggy for me.