3DS Max : Scale UVs Locally

travisdreams

Is there an existing tool/script that allows for you to scale your UVs in 3ds max locally? I've searched a while back and again but couldn't seem to find one. It'd help a ton to have something like this (i'm using max 2011 btw).

Eric Chadwick

What do you mean by "locally"?

Have you tried the UVW XForm modifier?

musashidan

If you mean scaling islands in the unwrap mod along a local axis of an island that's rotated then you can't. But I can't think of a situation where I would ever want to do that.

travisdreams

I essentially at times scale a couple UVs individually by element to make as much use of my uv space as possible, minimalizing the amount of padding i have but if there was a tool or shortcut to do this faster, that'd be great. I tried the UVW xform modifier though that just sizes the entire texture sheet but couldn't get it to do exactly what i wanted.

musashidan

So what are you wanting to do, exactly? Scale horizontally/vertically, but locally along an angle?

Revel

I guess what he meant was scaling each uv shell on local (center) position of each of them, without moving them from current location.
Not sure there's a function for that yet for max as far as I know..

Barbiturat

This function is present in PolyUnwrapper.

travisdreams

Barbiturat said:

This function is present in PolyUnwrapper.

This is perfect actually! Thanks! I'll look into getting this pretty soon