Better Uv Snapshot tool than Maya?

Kligan

Hi!
Is there a better tool to create UV snapshots than what's in Maya? I would appreciate recommendations.

I'm tired of constantly closing holes by hand in Photoshop so that I can then use magic wand selection to create masks.

I know I can use "anti-alias" toggle in Maya, but that's another can of worms that gives different issues.

Another thing that's annoying me is how it sometimes creates jaggies on the edges of UVs like these:

Eric Chadwick

There used to be a plugin for 3ds Max that would output UVs as vectors to a PSD file, to load in Photoshop. That was pretty nice, having vectors instead of pixels. Can't find it though, except this other experimental script: https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/920919/#Comment_920919

Klunk

I cobbled together some bits and bobs into a stand alone win32 tool


it works on a wavefront obj file (the DrOS of file formats but pretty ubiquitous), it will handle quads, though not polys, (in the export) but will still render them as tri's.  It expects the UV's to be in a 0-1 range. You can drop drag the obj file onto either image box or open from the menu and save either image from the menu (bmp, jpeg, tiff, gif and png) or from right click context menu. anyway enjoy or not It was a fun one to write
if I get time I'll add a config file so don't have to use my defaults Not wanting to teach my grandmother to suck eggs but the color swatches work with a double click

ps. helps if i attach the file
ps. also any other formats it should support (the images ones are set in stone gdi+ and all that jazz )

Kligan

Klunk said:

I cobbled together some bits and bobs into a stand alone win32 tool

Sweet! Cheers!

Klunk

added a preferences file and a very rudimentary save as targa

Klunk

added save as psd.....
i've added the save as psd c++ code I used for anyone interested..... it's perhaps, in it's most trivial form, not that "scary" , It's not been checked to see if it compiles (i normally use a wrapper class for the 'c' file io functions and I've had a evening of food, wine, brandy and whiskey) but it's pretty straightforward ... I know gdi+ is pretty old hat but I like it, it should be pretty easy to port to any graphic base.
mostly based on the visualbasic code found here, If i'm anything it's lazy