XRayunwrap

LEViATHAN

http://www.raylightgames.com/xrayunwrap/xrayunwrap.htm

Is it any good? Currently using Butcher's LCSM plugin, but it has some quirks. XRay is only a fiver and looks like it produces good results (though I realize that the mesh they're showing it off with is not all that complex).

CrazyButcher

they support the second method (ABF) that blender allows next to LSCM. Something I wanted to add if people would donate... which they didn't. I guess with freebies/donation stuff people have low interest in informing authors about issues and wishes. Hence I can understand why the guys ask for money in the first place. (and I am frustrated about myself not doing it, when I had the chance hehe)
the workflow is more or less identical to my free version.

nevertheless having both LSCM and ABF at hand might be nice.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~sheffa/ABF++/abf.htm

renderhjs

nice find, it would be nice to see/ hear how the performance is because most peeling and unwrapping scripts in max are pretty slow with dense meshes.
I highly assume that with the next max releases the UV editor will be redesigned with better performance and multiple unwrap algorithm types to choose from.

suffeli

Humm...

It's only 5 euros so not really a bad bargain... Looking at the video tutorials it looks really fast and practical too. I might even try it out.

Orgoth02

RoadKill does pretty much the same thing. But still is program looks pretty cool

rasmus

Yeah, RoadKill is good but it requires exporting to .obj's, which destroys data (and is fiddly). CrazyButchers script is the way to go! I'm curious to see how XRayUnwrap differs from the Blender LSCM code in actuality, but that link doesn't work on their page. Boo. Other than that 5 euros is practically free.

pior

Rasmus : at least for the Maya version, you don't need to OBJ at all, it's all integrated (best thing in Maya ever by the way!)

MoP

pior: I thought Roadkill for Maya still uses OBJs, it just does it in the background so you don't have to do it manually?

pior

Oh! I don't know at all. I just know that I don't have to save anything, just click a button, and the magic never fails to happen :P Great tool.

MoP

Yeah, but it does mean that if you had some data on your mesh (like vertex colour for example) which OBJ doesn't support, then you will lose that when using Roadkill in Maya, I think.

SHEPEIRO

i hear ya pior, i miss it so much

MOP- you could write/modified the script that duplicates the mesh then copys the attributes back over once its been imported, magic no data loss, pity max cant do this

MoP

why couldn't you do that in max?

rasmus

Oh well, now we have CrazyButchers LSCM and can leave Maya in the ditch (WHERE IT BELONGS, muahaha). You still prefer RoadKill, SHEPEIRO?