[MAYA MEL] Automatic 1-click UV mapping: vrnAutoMap

ValN84

Here's a Mel I made to speed up initial UV creation. It automatically creates oriented UVs for the selected meshes and a UV layout for all the objects in the current selection on a single texture sheet. It cuts hard edges and uses the new Auto Seams command (Maya 2017 Update 4 or 2018) to create UV shells which it then unfolds, orients and finally packs with Layout UVs. It might require careful examination and some cutting and sewing and potentially repacking afterwards but it gets you 85% of the results with 1% of the effort

Something like this:

The script is free on Gumroad >>here<<

I've written a more detailed blog post on how to install and run it on my Arstation >>here<< 

onionhead_o

its a nice script. Unfortunate that it requires maya 2018

ValN84

Unfortunately the one click aspect wouldn't be possible without the "Auto Seams" command that was recently promoted from Bonus Tools to regular Maya. I only tested it Maya 2017 and 2018 but I could try to make it work in 2016 as well.

Justo

Hey, this sounds pretty good! I'll try it out and report back.