Unwrap tools?

Kevin Johnstone

I've grown tired of Roadkill; I'm looking for more sporty, current software for unwrapping my lowpolys. A few folk have talked one thing up or the other so I wondered what folk here are using these days?

tristamus

Headus UV Layout is great (If you don't mind the terrible GUI), but the coolest and best one I've used so far is definitely this...

Unfold3D 7

bk3d

If you are using Maya you can check out Ninja UV. or Ninja Dojo.

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


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

poopipe

Max 2012 is brilliant at it

Probably overkill for just unwrapping if you're on maya already though

Noors

For high and triangulated objects (3d scans), Unfold 3D saved the day many times and was by far the best bet, way above UV layout.
I'm not so sure about low poly, but it worthes the try.

Entity

Unfold 3d rocks, although it might be a tad expensive.

Froyok

http://sinisthesia.blogspot.fr/2011/05/uv-solutions-for-maya-pipeline.html

Mongrelman

Still a big fan of Blender's UV tools. Also seeing more people pimping Zbrush's UVmaster, at least for generating the initial uv islands and then tweaking them elsewhere.

poopinmymouth

Thirding or is it fourthing? Unfold3D. Owns bones. For simple stuff if you're a max person, I still use the microcan UVhelp script. The site is down but I've mirrored it on mine here: http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/uvHelpV201.mcr

Mark Dygert

I mostly stick to some of the newer tools included in max 2012 and up. With the constant cycle of updates from Autodesk every April I have sort of fallen out of love with 3rd party plug-ins unless they are critical to my workflow and super easy to install and keep updated. Nothing quite like waiting 4 months after max releases for some guy you paid 4 years ago to finally get around and update the script/plug-in.

I mostly use point to point seam selection, then relax.
Or peel/quick peel based on face selections, then use point to point seam selection to cut seams and relax tension.

Kbrom12

Headus uvlayout all day long - http://www.uvlayout.com/

Joshua Stubbles

I use TexTools + Max2012's new set of tools. Seems to do a good job for me. There may be faster solutions out there though, I haven't tried too much else.

maze

uv layout. I bought a dongle license a year ago and I am happy with it, but yeah there is a learning curve, as everything is done with shortcuts.... Also, I am not sure in your case, but at work I switch often between max, xsi and maya, so its good not having to learn to unwrap in every different app. Because with uvlayout you have import plugins that make your workflow smooth.

unfold 3d looks awesome btw!!

Billabong

I use Xray unwrap. Its a plugin for max and I freaken love it.

Adrian Pieroni_inactive

I'm going to resurrect this thread to share what I just found out. Unfold3D was the most suggested UV unwrapping software in this thread, so I looked it up and it looks like it's going to be a native plugin for the imminent Maya 2015. Neat!

http://www.polygonal-design.fr/e_unfold/

oglu

maya 2015 is using a pimped version unfold3D algorithm to do the unfolding...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJx3xr0xOM

Chase

Someone correct me if im wrong but scaling in the uv editor of max 2014 is broken. You cant scale in both x and y directions. It only does one or the other.

Deadly Nightshade

Roadkill for unwrapping
Nightshade UV Editor for layouting/organizing

D4V1DC

Chase wrote: »

Someone correct me if im wrong but scaling in the uv editor of max 2014 is broken. You cant scale in both x and y directions. It only does one or the other.

Yea it is odd, though a.f.a.i.k. max's uving has always had problems for me it was always a headache and i fought through it every-time, idk why lol (probably no chance for other options really.

Edit:
now i do a combo thing with zbrush's automation and maxes, z flattens them in max i sort them.

Chase

Thats.frustrating haha. The even more frustrating part is I redownloaded Max12 and it got updated with some of Max14's upgrades including this wonderful uv editor lol. It was just fine before I messed with it. I can only blame myself :-( but I have no idea why Autodesk upgraded their older versions.

Pac_187

Scaling works just fine for me, are you on the latest service pack?

You need to hold down CTRL to scale on x and y.
Holding SHIFT will scale on either x or y, depending on mouse direction.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3191007/stuff/max_2014_uvscale.gif

Mark Dygert

Those shortcuts work outside of freeform mode also, with just the scale tool selected.

There was one release of 3dsmax (I think it was 2012) when they switched the default behavior of the scale tool to non-uniform scale and everyone went nuts and they patched it a few days later putting it back to the way Pac posted.

Tiles

3D Coat has a neat new unwrap method now too.

Chase

Thanks Pac! My old version of Max12 didn't have any shortcuts to scaling. Just select Scale or Free form and it uniformly did it. Right now the shortcut isn't working with Scale mode, just in Free form mode. In Scale mode Ctrl just combines uv selection like in editable poly.

Mark Dygert

Shift works in 2014 for me in scale and freeform mode.

D4V1DC

^Thanks for that info i always forget about updates.