Roadkill live-pelting UV app

Eric Chadwick

http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/index.htm

Anyone tried this? It's a free standalone UV mapper, with live pelting. The vids are pretty cool. Offers live connection between it and Maya, Max, or XSI. I'll try this out next week methinks.

Jay Evans

ya I've been using it for a while. Simple and works great. no complaints. Its just like UVHelp for Max. It works best if you use it in conjunction with a select seams script.

HonkyPunch

Yes
Loves
I've been looking for a simple UV mapper.
That's what's been stopping me from finishing a few models; textures.

Mongrelman

Had a look at this, I use Blender for my uv mapping, which seems pretty much the same as this, but I did like the colours to show how much distortion. Will have to give this a shot at some point.

Josh_Singh

this looks cool, can't wait to try it!

Michael Knubben

While there's something to be said for integration, i keep being surprised -in the good sense- by small applications that focus on one area of the 3d-process. Silo, wings, topogun... And now hopefully this. I haven't given it a go yet, but it sure looks amazing. And it's opensource!

EmAr

This is awesome! It works great with XSI and I love the results. I'll try it with models exported from Silo as well. I feel they will turn out to be a good couple of software. Thanks so much for posting

HonkyPunch

How the fuck do I rotate the camera in this?
Confusing

conte

better than unfold3d?(impossible p_p)

rooster

jimmies, ctrl left click, no?

seems pretty handy, only beef is in maya doesnt look like you can undo your uv generation
edit: I tell a lie! you can't ctrl z it but just turn the transfer uv input to off and you're good.. yay

Josh_Singh

So I was watching the videos, and I was looking at the pinning feature, is there a way to run that process without pinning and just getting a distortion free map? like in u.v.Help for max???

HonkyPunch

oH.
tHANKS.

MoP

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.relaxByFaceAngle 200 0.0 1.0 false
</pre><hr />

I don't quite see why I'd want anything else than that for Max7 and up... its relax tool seems to handle nearly everything pretty much perfectly with those settings...

Still, I've downloaded this and will try it tomorrow ... don't really see how it can be a timesaver given that I'd have to send things in/out of Max all the time, and the default relax tool does a fine job.

Ferg

very awesome tool, using it to unwrap my robot friend now... thanks for the link!

Rhinokey

i pretty much agree with mop, tho i almost always have trouble with hands using relax

Josh_Singh

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Code:


$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.relaxByFaceAngle 200 0.0 1.0 false



I don't quite see why I'd want anything else than that for Max7 and up... its relax tool seems to handle nearly everything pretty much perfectly with those settings...

Still, I've downloaded this and will try it tomorrow ... don't really see how it can be a timesaver given that I'd have to send things in/out of Max all the time, and the default relax tool does a fine job.

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Mop, Max already has enough uv stuff to make me happy, I was thinking of getting it to work like uvhelp but for maya.

MoP

Oh right sorry, I mis-read your post, I thought you wanted it for Max

CheeseOnToast

Going to give this a try. I've been using the beta of Headus UVlayout, which is very cool. The asking price for the final product is way too high in my opinion though, so if this is a good replacement then Headus will have stuffed themselves.

Lord McMutton

Is this program able to export UVW's?

Fuse

err sorry mop, i am not code or script savvy, what is it that you typed there ? and how do i implement it ? I am on max 7

Eric Chadwick

Marshall Banana: apparently yes, out to Max/Maya/XSI. Might go out to others via OBJ export, not sure.

Fuse: It's a snippet of maxscript that relaxes the UVs that you have selected in UVW Unwrap.

Paste that line into the pink area at lower left in Max (the Maxscript Listener), select that line of text, then drag it onto a toolbar. You'll see the cursor change to a +. Let go and it'll make a maxscript out of Mop's code. Put a UVW Unwrap mod on your mesh, open the Edit window, select some verts or edges or faces, then click the button you made. Give thanks to our Lord MoP.


I'm swamped, but I like the way Roadkill seems to be an instant pelter/relaxer. Looks like it could be a nice workflow.

Scott Ruggels

Ooooohh. got to try this out.

Scott

SolidNest

Anyone know how to make this work on Maya 2022? the standalone app wont launch

Joopson

SolidNest said:

Anyone know how to make this work on Maya 2022? the standalone app wont launch

Are there any particular features that haven't already been ported to modern programs? UVing in Maya is fairly powerful and flexible these days, so I'm curious to hear what roadkill had that is still lacking elsewhere.

gnoop

Is this better than Blender?  Considering  the old road kill  was just a clone of Blender UV code.

btw   Mongrelman   Blender shows  stretch as color too.  There is a check  box in show overlay  drop down.