New plugin for maya that find overlap of UVs shells

Roman_Lukyanov

Hi guys,
i present to your attention new plugin "SearchOverlap".

"Search Overlap" is a smart tool written in c++ that will significantly reduce your baking preparations.
If your pipeline requires manually searching for overlapped UVs and then shifting them to the side before baking - this script will do it for you.



Features:

•     Select all overlapped UV shells
•     Shift them to the side (so they will not take part in the baking process)
•     During this process symmetry will be also taken into account

Demo video:
https://youtu.be/NmAnTWdqJNs

the product is sold on:
https://gumroad.com/l/SearchOverlap


compatible with : Maya 2016, Maya 2017, Maya 2018.

onionhead_o

very nice! thanks for sharing this

pasha_sevez

Nice work. But unfortunately all this functionality is already built-in starting from 2018. So this might be handy for previous versions owners.

Roman_Lukyanov

I finded only selecting overlaps

pasha_sevez

@Roman_Lukyanov
Besides overlap detection, Maya has a native way to offset the selected shells by 1 tile (or any fraction of tile). You can do it from UV Toolkit Transform submenu on the right side of UV Editor. Admittedly your script some extra functionality, but in 99.99% scenarios you just have to offset all stacked and inverted shell aside and leave only the shells to be used in baking in 0-1 range.