What is up with Maya preserve uv's it never works?

malcolm

Anyone know the magical criteria you have to have before Maya's preserve uv's will actually work, I'm constantly getting this annoying error.
// Error: Unable to preserve UVs. Disable the Preserve UV option to continue with this edit.

malcolm

I figured it out, you have to have uv border edges so the uv's can expand where they are being preserved, lots of cutting of edges in the uv editor before the tool will work.

bugo

well, that also happens since it depends which world direction you are translating and if the adjacent verts are getting recognized on the uv world. Unfortunately there's a limitation.

tristamus

What exactly are you using this for? Are you creating a model based off of a texture (i.e. - A rock wall or etc?)

malcolm

Making jersey barrier longer.

warby

yeah translating something from 3d space to 2d space is practically guaranteed to be a lossy operation !

tddyboy

Hey I have figured out just double click on rotation tool, and search for preserve UV's box and deactivate it!