3DS Max -- UV 'flat mapping' based on smooth groups?

adam

Hello!

Has anyone come across a method or script that will allow someone to quickly flat map UV's based on the meshes smooth groups? So rather than an angle threshhold, the flap mapping creates UV islands based on your meshes smooth group?

Possible? Done before? Any info on this would be appreciated. Thank you!

Mark Dygert

It was included in 2012, in the UV Editor window its under "Explode". It's basically a few different flatten options, by smoothing, by angle and by Mat ID. TexTools might have something similar for older versions of max, it wouldn't surprise me if that is where they got the idea, since they "borrowed" a lot of the tools.

Skillmister

TexTools is meant to be able to but it never works for me