Problems UVing with Maya 2016

trooper905

I have been trying to UV this plank for a project that I am working on. While doing it I have run into a lot of problems with the UV editor.

This is what the UV looks like when I planar map it. Looks great and works pretty well but I want to unwrap it before I work with it. 
 

When I go to unwrap it this is what it looks like. Am I doing something wrong here? As I understood unwrapping this should not happen.


Additionally, when do automatic Mapping this is what the object looks like, I have tried fiddling with the setting for everything and have seen no change. No matter what I auto map it always comes out as a huge mess.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. I very well could be just doing something wrong. 

gerridoo

Sometimes something like this would happen to me and it was because I forgot to freeze the scale transformations after doing some editing. Just a shot in the dark, but are your transforms frozen before using the auto UV tool?

throttlekitty

Seconding transforms, also clear history if you haven't. You may need to cut a seam or two at least temporarily before unfolding, this. Looking at your planar map, there's a section in the lower right that might be throwing off the unfold, I'm having trouble comparing that part to the model.

trooper905

That was the problem. I feel very dumb now. Thanks!