display multiple textures in Maya UV editor

4leaf · Jun 2011

I have an object that I divided into parts and baked out the normals and Ambient Occlusion maps for.

I assigned everything to each piece, but now I need to display all of my textures at the same time in the UV editor. is there any way to do this?

Thank you very much, as I can't seem to find the answer so easily.

ivars · Jun 2011

If the pieces aren't overlapping you should just combine everything in to one texture in Photoshop (or similar)
If they are overlapping I don't see why you would want to display them all at once....

malcolm · Jun 2011

4leaf I don't think what you're asking for can be done in Maya. As a work around you can select which texture you'd like to see in the uv editor by choosing it from Textures in the file menu of the uv editor.

throttlekitty · Jun 2011

Just for fun, I think a layer shader with masks for each texture should work. But ivars method is probably quicker, and it sounds like you need them all as one texture anyway.

malcolm · Jun 2011

Note you need to turn on texture baking if you want to see the result of the layer shader in the uv editor.

display multiple textures in Maya UV editor

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