Is "unwrap tool" (S. Johnson) available for max 9?

rybeck

Hello all...

I am trying to catch up 3ds max, and wondering if "unwrap tool" is available for version 9...
Anyone?

Joao Sapiro

I heard legends, but discreet told in a press conference that they would still need to work on allowing to dysplay viewports with shaded polygons in gouraud shading ! can you imagine that ?

Mark Dygert

Yes.

rybeck

If you do not use the "unwrap tool," can you share any plugins for UVW unwrap editor?

rooster

what do you need? it has all the features I find myself wanting

spitty

are you talking about chuggnut's unwrap tool? i think it should already work for max 9.

the website is:
http://www.chuggnut.com

and a direct link to the download:
http://www.chuggnut.com/scripts/unwraptools/unwraptools1.4.zip

rybeck

spitty,

thanks a lot... I was watching tutorials and instructor gave a short notion about the plugin which I have trouble to locate...
If you don't mind, can you recommend good max plugin sites, for future reference?

Thank you...

robioto

www.scriptspot.com
www.maxplugins.de

Ott

I can't stand how it always reverts back to vert mode, regardless of what mode you are in the main window.

And when the hell is Max going to finally make the hotkeys match up with the regular hotkeys for move, scale, rotate, etc in the UVW editor?? Did they "add" this in Max 9?

Mark Dygert

No, but you can assign your own hotkeys... MY GOD what where they thinking when they made the customize menu!? They must have been doubly nuts to let you save that set up as default so it loads when max starts.

Stop torturing yourself and just set up the hotkeys. Heh you can even load your old keyboard hotkeys into a new version of max when you upgrade making the time you have to set up the keyboard hotkeys about 5min tops from now until the end of Max.

Kind of silly to wait and pine over standard hotkeys version after version when you can just do it yourself...

Ott

Could you kindly tell me where in the customize menu you can re-assign the hotkeys for UVW editing move, rotate, scale?

Edit - nm...the reason I couldn't find it before is because it isn't called "Move, rotate, scale..." like it is in the menu bar.

Of course, it was obviously called "Texture vertex scale, Texture vertex rotate, Texture vertex move".

Obviously!

Mark Dygert

Max can have some funky names for some things but the good thing is you can save that out and never have to hassle with it again! wewt!

I also suggest setting "walk thru mode" to use WASD controls. Helps a TON to be able to fly around your scene and even a single model like it was a first person shooter. Use "[" & "]" to control the speed, I also bind Q to toggle walk and run. I have turn on Walk thru mode bound to Shift-C. Walk thru mode works in perspective view or on any free camera view that doesn't have a look at target.

Ruz

damn, I had an advanced, up to date version of turbo unwrap, but deleted it from my hard drive
The version on chugnuts website is really old.

He updated it at work, but never released to the public

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, I bugged him about that, he just gave some lame excuse, like he bought a house or something.

The script still works though. I edited it some, changing the default status of my fav rollouts & checkboxes... you can d/l my edit here.

Ott

Does your version fix the annoying "Always go to vertex mode when you open UVW editor" bug?

Eric Chadwick

No. I just changed some of the default options in his panel. There's probably a way to change it though, if you play with the code some. Did you want Face sub-object mode instead?

Ott

nah, I just want it to match up with what you actually have selected in the viewport. Regardless of what mode you are in, as soon as you open the editor it defaults to vertex mode. Not such a huge deal, but after closing and opening a thousand times a day it gets annoying.

The buttons don't update either when you switch sub-object mode via hotkeys.

Overall it's great. The alignment and rotate tools alone are more helpful than anything else I've played with.