Problems with UV mapping in maya

sedrocproductions

Hi there community. I am learning UV mapping and having problems with moving and sewing UV edges. I have attached a photo of my problem with a red line where i am trying to joing - I am trying to join these two parts together but Maya will not perform the operation (although it shows up in the history) but nothing happens with the shells and the texture seam still shows in the viewport (I have these turned on).

I generally find UV mapping confusing generally, is there a good resource for first timers? Apart from this site of course!

Many thanks in anticipation.

onionhead_o

check to see if your mesh is welded.

sedrocproductions

Thank you so much - this has solved all my problems. I don't know how I could have been so stupid! Always the simple things eh?

throttlekitty

This came up in another thread recently, flipped normals will also cause problems here. I'm not certain of any one-stop-shop for everything UVs other than the polycount wiki and Maya's documentation.

One tip though: Try to make it a habit to clear history every so often when doing UV operations. Maybe that's my old-school side talking, but as a general rule, large history chains can tend to get buggy, particularly when it comes to UVs.