Freezing UVs in Maya

Steve Schulze

Is this possible? I've got 3 LODs, one of which has a texture. The other two haven't had their UVs laid out yet. Probably I should have UVed the initial model before making the LODs, but I didn't quite think that far ahead, as per usual. I'm wondering now whether it'd be possible to freeze the UVs on the existing model so that I can just snap the ones on the LODs to them without danger of messing everything up.

Is there a way to do this, or a better way to work?

NoSeRider

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=27639&an=0&page=1#27639

It's not so much freezing, but hiding and selecting UV Maps by means of giving each UV Set it's own name......basically the same process in Max of LithUVmapper.

I've never encountered 'freezing' UV Maps, nor understand why that would be advantageous?

Steve Schulze

That won't achieve anything. I need to be able to freeze the UVs so that I can snap to them, or turn them into a reference object or something.

Jeff Parrott

You could try polygons>transfer. But that won't work since the models don't have the same verts. Best bet is to lay out the Uvs on the high LOD and reduce down by deleting edges. I would just go back and redo the LODs. They don't take that long.

Whargoul

What I do is export out a UV map, and load that as a texture for the LODs an place them to that image.

Steve Schulze

Ah, a little lateral thinking. I new there'd be some logical way of doing things. Thankyou Whargoul.