Attaching models retaining UVW unwraps?

Cdawilliams

This may be a stupid question but if the answer is no then I have a follow up.

I'm making a chamber that has pipes coming out of it. If I UVW Unwrap both pipes and chamber seperately will they maintain their UVW unwrap co-ords if I use the attach feature? I will be attaching using geometry and bridging, not just leaving them floating inside the mesh.

If no, is there any easy way to unwrap pipes once attached to the chamber? It's quite a long, boring process trying to unwrap all 3 pipes!

Thanks!

sprunghunt

Yes all objects should maintain their uvs if they are attached

I often do this kind of thing by making pipes out of splines with auto unwrap turned on - then I attach them together

Wesley

Geo retains UV co-ordinates after attaching other geo. They'll just overlap and you'll have to sort them out. But yeah I've unwrapped a bunch of stuff before attaching it all together and then laying out my UV islands.

Cdawilliams

Cheers guys, much appreciated!

Cdawilliams

sprunghunt wrote: »

Yes all objects should maintain their uvs if they are attached

I often do this kind of thing by making pipes out of splines with auto unwrap turned on - then I attach them together

Any tips on how to keep spline made pipes relatively low-poly? Trying to make it appear to flow more smoother through a bezier curve just increases the amount of polys but without it just doesn't look very good and too jagged.

[EDIT] Scratch that, I'll just play with the Interpolation