Help, UVs messed up (quick)

TheWinterLord

hello I have a assignment thats needs to be done as quickly as humanly possible.
I almost finished uv mapping and saved. went for lunch and when I came back and open maya 8.5 the uvs where like this, a mess.



please help, thanks didnt know where else to go

TheWinterLord

I cant let this little bug determine the whole year ahead of me damnit...

rooster

i've seen exploding uvs in maya 6, troubling to see it in 8.5.. I dont think you can salvage it man you'd better start over. only thing I can suggest is making sure you're not viewing some other uv set you've added my mistake. saving iterations while you do stuff will help with these nasty surprises

warby

if "THIS" is how the uvs looked like before you mapped it properly than it might be that old maya uv history bug.

to fix open the corrupted scene select all uvs scale em all a bit (might also work with translating or rotating) than press the undo key and they jump into the positions where they were when you saved the file.
if you have opened the scene in the mean time , changed something and saved it than it is FUCKED for good so get a fresh UNCHANGED corrupted scene out of your incremental save folder ...


this happened all the time with my levels on my last project (maya 6.0)

the first time i went through the hassle of reuving the entire level (over 1 million tris ) the second time i accidently discovered this fix and was MEGA happy it is rare that you get a 1 button fixes all solution.

rooster

damn that would have been handy to know about a year ago

TheWinterLord

Thanks rooster and warby, it is to late now to fix because i re did it, but tomorrow il try warbys solution on a o;d file and il tell if it works, il post here if it works. Share warbys wisdom so they don't need to go through this the hard way. :P


in the uv mapping progress i saved 3 seperate files, all who had corrupt uvs...

(ps i never made a second uv set so thats not how it started) one said I might have had to much in the history.

Thanks again guys!

warby

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/polygon/fixBuggyUVs-323.html

this might also help i don't know