Trying to find 3DS Max plugin, please help! Lays out your mesh flat based on its unwrap...

Sparkwire

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I'm looking for a  plugin I used a while ago but lost the name of.

It takes the unwrap of a simple or complex mesh, and then uses the unwrap to lay it completely flat in one axis and uses a morpher to switch between its original position and its flat position. you could then skin wrap a model to the flat mesh and it would deform into the original shape. This let you model complex curved detail completely flat which i found super useful.

If anyone has any idea of what it was called or where to find it i would be super grateful!

PolyHertz

SlideKnit ?

Sparkwire

PolyHertz said:

SlideKnit ?

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!! That's exactly it!

CompanionCube

there is also this http://hocuspocus-studio.fr/tools/product/uv-to-mesh/

savascetin

Hi there. You can also use channel info utility under utilities. Once you open channel info utility you can copy desired map map channel info to  "mesh" channel. The resulting effect will be similar but keep in mind it will scale down the "opened uv model" to 1 unit sized rectange. So you have to zoom in to see the result. But morphing is bit tricky if you use "channel info". Vertex count will not match with the original version.