shell stacking/grouping software other than 3Dmax ?

Todd_Marsh

Hey guys im a maya user that is UVing something with a ton of shells and duplicated pieces with shells that i need to stack and then layout. i know maya has a stack UV feature but its pretty bad for a few reasons. do any of you have a experience with some software that handles this situation well?

gnoop

Last version of UVpackmaster2 pro have a feature "align similar" in "advanced option"  dropdown. (Blender addon)   it finds similar UV islands and try to stack it one over another .        I only tried it in Blender and it's not 100% reliable   still works pretty ok imo.  Sometimes you have to manually select islands and push "select similar" and "Align similar" several times. Sometimes it does it all on its own automatically .

The addon  does its best to align islands as much as possible but  to have vertexs 100% matching  you need to do Merge by distance in Blender default UV menu after the addon did its job.

  I can't compare it to Maya although since never did it there