Overlapping UVs in Maya with default settings

carrottoptw

Hey, I always seem to get this problem with laying out UV's in Maya.  Once I've unwrapped and hit Layout, my shells look like they're overlapping or spilling over onto other tiles - see pics below.  I've left the packing resolution as default and in the UV editor display at the bottom it says 0 overlapping uvs, but wondering if theres anything I'm doing wrong as they certainly look overlapping when I zoom in & spilling onto other tiles...   

Yes I could just scale it down manually but I'd loose a bit of resolution and prefer if Maya just auto packed it within the tile

oglu

Increase the Shell Padding and Tile Padding. A Value like 32 shoudl do it for a 4k map.

carrottoptw

Hey thanks!! That did the trick! I set it to 1, had no idea I just assumed the default of 0 would pack it within the tile.  Thanks again oglu!

oglu

1 would only be 1 pixel on your texture. You need much more cause of mipmapping. 16 pixel for a 2k if im right. 

Ashervisalis

 When it says '0 overlapping,' I think it's meaning there are 0 UV islands overlapping, but they'll still go into different UV sections.

carrottoptw

oglu - Ahh right, I had not idea about mitmapping but did it at 2k 16px and it worked perfectly! Thanks again

Ashervisalis - haha yeah writing that I realised that they bare no relation