[Maya] Discussion about UV Unwrapping.

dproeder

Yo. For the past 3 years, I have been using Headus UVlayout to do my serious pelting. To be honest, I get so tired of using 5 different software apps in my workflow to make one asset. How has Maya's UV Texture Editor improved over the last few years? Is it on par with UVlayout or even Zbrush's quick pelt mapping? Any resources/tutorials out there for it?

sinistergfx

I'm mainly a Max guy, but have had to pick up Maya lately and I've found that this: http://www.castorlee.com/maya-tools/auto-uv-mapper plus this: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/texturing/c/uvdeluxe cover pretty much all my UV needs.

bk3d

You can check out Ninja UV. It's a mel script so its all your uv's are done inside maya.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/marketplace/scripts-plugins/texturing/c/ninja-uv--2

also if you want tools for moldeling/lighting/fractureing.. you can check out Ninja Dojo.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/marketplace/scripts-plugins/interface-display/c/ninja-dojo-black-belt--2

Ninja Dojo can also be purchased directly thru the Ninja Dojo Page
http://www.bk3d.com/Ninja_Dojo/Dojo.htm

passerby

maya bonus tools from autodesk has some nice UV tools for pelt mapping
http://area.autodesk.com/bonus_tools

than ontop of that i use UVDelux
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/texturing/c/uvdeluxe

there are a few other usefull things in bonus tools too for modeling and animation.