Sub-object Uv editing in max8 - broken?
polycounter lvl 19
Hopefully some of you have the Max8 demo....
When editing UVs, I'll usually make a poly selection of an area, apply an unwrap, and then edit the UVs.
What I'm seeing in max8 though, is that after selecting the polys and going into unwrap, I cannot modify the UV's if I go from vertex to poly selection in the unwrap UI.
The UVs certainly become edited for the current selection, but doesn't affect anything attached to it. It shows it as being edited in the UV unwrap, but nothing is taking place on the mesh itself.
An example would be to take a flat plane, and inset the poly a little. Apply a UVmap and collapse the stack. Select the entire mesh, then apply an unwrap to it. In the unwrap window, select the POLY selection mode, and select the inner poly of the plane UVs. Use the scale tool, and see what happens (apply a texture to the mesh first, so you can see what I mean).
I first thought it was an issue with the Chuggnut UV tools, but after overwriting it with the default it still does the same.
Any ideas?
When editing UVs, I'll usually make a poly selection of an area, apply an unwrap, and then edit the UVs.
What I'm seeing in max8 though, is that after selecting the polys and going into unwrap, I cannot modify the UV's if I go from vertex to poly selection in the unwrap UI.
The UVs certainly become edited for the current selection, but doesn't affect anything attached to it. It shows it as being edited in the UV unwrap, but nothing is taking place on the mesh itself.
An example would be to take a flat plane, and inset the poly a little. Apply a UVmap and collapse the stack. Select the entire mesh, then apply an unwrap to it. In the unwrap window, select the POLY selection mode, and select the inner poly of the plane UVs. Use the scale tool, and see what happens (apply a texture to the mesh first, so you can see what I mean).
I first thought it was an issue with the Chuggnut UV tools, but after overwriting it with the default it still does the same.
Any ideas?
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Sometimes if I Planar mapped something, turned off Planar map, then tried to move the selection of faces in the UV window, the whole thing just disappeared - same with rotate and scale. It got moved to the top left pixel of the UV window, essentially making the whole selection 1 vertex, and meaning I had to map the selection again.
I found it didn't do this if I converted the selection to verts before trying to move/rotate/scale. Was weird and annoying.
Overall the new UV map tools are cool, and including other mapping options besides planar is pretty sweet even though I'm sure I'm not gonna use them. The only other annoyances I have right now is that when you click on the planar map button it stays active until you click on it again... meaning that I can't edit the polys I just planar mapped until I click that button... pretty small thing to complain about, but it gets annoying.
There's supposed to be an UV image dump from the editor (much like Texporter), which is in all of the "max8 features" videos. There's also a function of the SWEEP modifier that's also missing. It has a check box for 'union intersections', but it appears to be disabled in the demo.
How can you evaluate it's new features, when they're not there?.......
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I was in fact using a custom color/toolbar/shortcut setup from max6/7. When I chose the max8 "light" UI, the tools showed up. I am, however, still getting that UV editor issue.
Bit of a typo in that last pic. The Uv's on the mesh DID change for that selected face, but ONLY for that face. The connected polys didn't have their UV's edited, regardless of the UV window showing otherwise.
I just tried that exact same thing, every different way I tried, it worked fine and just as expected... *shrug*.
I made a plane, converted to EPoly, Inset the poly, applied a UV-Map modifier, Collapsed the stack, applied an Unwrap, and scaled the centre face... no problem.
I also tried that same method, only without applying the UV-map modifier at all, just used the Unwrap alone... also tried it with the UV-map modifier un-collapsed in the stack below the Unwrap... all of those methods had the correct results, I didn't see anything like what you're experiencing!
I thought it was maybe something like Preserve UV's, or Prevent Reflattening, or something? No idea...
If I just straight up apply an Unwrap WITHOUT first selecting the mesh faces, it works fine.
i guess that would have never occurred to me, because I never apply an unwrap modifier when i'm in a sub-object mode anyway, i always apply it on the top level...