Blender unwrap issues

David_T

Started using blender to slowly move away from 3ds max but felt i hit a major roadblock that kind of makes me decidedly stick back to it, because i feel the unwrapping tools in blender are heavily lacking.

i am using smart UV project and it unwraps it on first sight nicely but on closer sight every FACEof the object is seperate... every FACE its so backwards did i miss a setting in one of the thousands hidden in plain sight?

because modelingwise blender is hella okey totally doable (no smoothing groups i find a issue) but other then tht more then doable

any ideas why it does that???

the great pieces outside the UV space are ones i just pulled randomly they are all loose, im sure i am missing something (also no relaxing tools in blender ???)

would greatly appreciate the help because im frustrated also its annoying i cant keep my blender shortcuts but maintain the 3ds max viewport movement i find it also quite restrictive

gestoryscht

That's because you enabled the 'Keep UV and edit mode selection in sync' function.

Disable it and the faces are not loose anymore.

You can find a relaxing brush under UV's -> UV Sculpt -> Hold Shift to smooth.
And Minimie Stretch helps, too. There are plenty of options.

One tip for unwrapping - search for TexTools for Blender. This helps a lot.

Reststopkirk

renderhjs' ported/recreated TexTools 3dsMax for BLENDER. They, as in Max, are a lifesaver.

Blender TexTools Polycount thread

Blender TexTools Download

Also, you can duplicate the window (Ctrl Alt W ) and dedicate it for working UV/image editor.

David_T

well damn, if thats the only way to relax i am very underwhelmed , feels like its always just slightly lacking hope they add more tools around this because of the gameart pipeline i feel unwrapping might be blenders cruxs, i really enjoy the modeling process but when it comes to unwrapping it feels lesss then fleshed, i want to be able to see my UVS at all time but cant do it without giving stuff up like picking islands and the like are there maybe addons that help with that ? also i heavily dislike having to merge my model to be able to unwrap it in 1 texture set (unlike in max u can just select it all and unwrap it together but not needing them to be merged) because merging it, unwrapping it and then having to re unpiece it all just seems a mess

VertexPainter

https://github.com/ndee85/Multi-Object-UV-Editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAbh2o4XC0

David_T

VertexPainter said:

https://github.com/ndee85/Multi-Object-UV-Editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAbh2o4XC0

this helps a ton need to find more addons but this one is a great one thanks !!

Nosslak

The next Blender release (which should come out in a few months) will have support for multi object editing built in as well.

thomasp

would be good to see the selection-sync thingie be gone as well as the issue that UV layouts only show in subobject mode. i have mapped UVs in max, softimage, maya, modo, mirai, lightwave and a bunch of dedicated uv apps and never had an issue. blender is the only one i have ever run away from screaming.

seems i am not the only one allergic to the basic UV workflow in there.

seeing how well the 2.8 interface is shaping up (finally, common sense has arrived for the UI! might even be the neatest of any current 3D app) i am hoping the uv tools in blender get an overhaul as well.