Seeking a good UV Packer for Maya 2011

Steve Schulze

I'm looking for a very basic UV packing tool for Maya. I don't want any kind of unwrapping. I don't want things rotated in a sensible directions. I just want my shells arranged in the most efficient way possible, ideally with the option for a specified amount of bleed. Maya's own UV Layout would do pretty much what I want, if it actually worked as advertised (or at all). I think HeadUS also has decent packing facilities, but we don't really want to pay $300 for one simple function that could be found in a script somewheres.

I've been looking for a while and this is proving to be a far trickier task than I had envisioned.

sltrOlsson

Road kill pro 1.03 had a pretty decent packing function. But they just disappeared. I emailed him/them like 5 month ago and asked if there was an update for 2011. I got the answer that they didn't sell it anymore.

As for UVing goes, i know you didn't want that :P but there is the bonus tools for maya. It got some cool functions, maybe that could help some.

romy

I suggest you to try UVautoratio (http://www.renderheads.com/portfolio/UVAutoRatio/) which works very well and is not expensive

edit : oops, my bad, it's corrected

sltrOlsson

Gee, thanks for linking back to this thread!

malcolm

Not having any issues with the built in Maya packer, have been using it for years to pack lightmap uv's. Supports shells spacing, non uniform scale and since maya 7 it also supports packing shells based on shape rather than bounding box. What exactly are you finding about the tool that is not working?

HitmonInfinity

I use maya's uv layout to get everything to the same texture density, and then I scale up and reorganize. If you think of it as a puzzle, it's not so bad

Lamont

I use Maya. If you're getting funky results, kill history.