Possible to remove stored UVW coordinates?

Perfectblue

Max 2011. I am working through a tutorial by eat3D, and the project files it comes with the object is already fully unwrapped. That defeats the purpose of me purchasing this DVD. Is there a way I can removed the UVW unwrap the author already did? I tried reimporting it to a new scene and applying edit poly and collapsing.

nullfed

There's a UVW Remove modifier - apply it and flatten the stack when you're done I think

Perfectblue

nullfed wrote: »

There's a UVW Remove modifier - apply it and flatten the stack when you're done I think

Bingo thanks!

Justin Meisse

you can also go to tools > channel info
you can select the channel with the ID of Map and clear it, that will clear out the UV's. You can also duplicate your map channel - so if you need to make a 2nd uv channel for lightmaps or just texture blending, you can use your 1st uv unwrap as a base.

cman2k

^^ What Justin said. This method is also great for removing non-obvious channels of information, like vertex colors.