Blender UV padding

greevar

Does anyone know how to add padding to the UV auto-packing? It currently packs the UVs like sardines and I've been reading that this is bad for mip-mapping.

Michael Knubben

Scaling them all down using their own 'pivot' (if that's possible) will get you close, although interlocking shapes will be problematic. Anyway, I'd advise against using auto-packing, unless you're doing lightmaps.

HAL

Indeed, pack them by hand Blender's uv tools are great for that

metalliandy

Adjust the pack margin to something like 0.03 (depending how big your map size is)



AFAIK, the functionality isn't implemented in 2.5 as of yet

greevar

Ah, I'm using 2.5. That's why.