Maya UV Unwrapping tool?

Mathew O

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good Uv Unwrapping tools that will work inside of Maya 2011?

I have been using Diamant UV up until now but there isn't a version that will work inside of 2011

oglu

there should be one in the maya bonus tools...

Mathew O

Ooh, I'll take a look now. Thanks

keres

Roadkill seems pretty interesting. I just installed it the other day in Max, and there is also a Maya version.

Mathew O

Thanks dude, I'll take a look. It gets pretty annoying switching between two version of Maya.. It slows me down so much...

fade1

i think the maya uv tools are pretty good in 2011, but this one is a good addition:
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/unwrap_uvs_tool_an_interactive_tool_for_automatically_unwrapping_uvs

Harbinger

Have you tried using the good old Unwrap tool? It's in the upper left of the UV editor. Select your UV's, hit the tool, and drag the control widget to interactively unfold. I find doing simple projections and then unfolding gets me 90% of the way there, with some manual cleanup or aligning to U or V afterwards. If the tool seems to get "stuck" where you drag and drag and it's barely doing anything, try relaxing the UV's and doing it again.

arshlevon

try this
http://www.castorlee.com/maya-tools/auto-uv-mapper

Mathew O

fade1 wrote: »

i think the maya uv tools are pretty good in 2011, but this one is a good addition:
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/unwrap_uvs_tool_an_interactive_tool_for_automatically_unwrapping_uvs

I've been playing with this script and it works so nicely.

@Harbinger, I must admit I'm a bit of a novice with Maya' own in built uv tools, I need to get a Basic maya 2011 unwrapping tutorial I think.

ceebee

arshlevon wrote: »

try this
http://www.castorlee.com/maya-tools/auto-uv-mapper

Oh awesome, was looking at Roadkill the other day and was wondering if there were any others that've been updated more frequently. Thanks mang!