Maya Preserve UV's?

motives · Jun 2006

Anyone knows if there is there a function in Maya 7 similar to Max's Preserve UV's?

snap.crackle.pop · Jun 2006

Remind me again preserve UV's for what purpose ? i know my way pretty well in Maya, why do you need this function ?

motives · Jun 2006

uhm preserve UV's works so that you can make geometry changes to E-Poly objects while keeping UV coordinates intact. Then you can make adjustments to the geometry of your model without having to manually edit the UV's.

Im sorry i should have been clearer on the functionality of the tool heh. Imagine most people are versed in one of the program rather then both.

Jeff Parrott · Jun 2006

Not that I'm aware of. I haven't been using 7 for that long though. Maybe check on highend?

sinistergfx · Jun 2006

Every software NEEDS this feature. I wouldn't want to live without it.

Jeff Parrott · Jun 2006

Yeah, I totally agree. I still remember the first time you showed it to me Sinister.

malcolm · Jun 2006

Please explain clearly what this does. Are you saying you can lock the uv and move the vert without distorting your uv map?

Rhinokey · Jun 2006

pretty much as you move a vert to the left, it moves the vert also on the uvmap at the same time so the texture stays undistorted, theres certain instances that it is still unperfected.. but its still a damn handy toool

sinistergfx · Jun 2006

I've found the best way around the "underpectness" is to completely triangulate (temporarily) the area you're having problems with. It keeps it from distorting oddly. Huzzah.

Gizmo · Jul 2006

I think you will find that deleting an edge that is not a UV border edge, using the "delete edge" command; Maya7 will preserve UV's (or as per; the "delete vertex" command). Earlier versions do not preserve uvs.

While we are on the subject, I would like to know if anyone else recognises how silly it is that the bevel command does not create UVs accordingly!?

Marine · Jul 2006

maya has always had the shittiest bevel tool ever devised by man

rooster · Jul 2006

I would like to suggest that it was, infact, devised by the devil

thomasp · Jul 2006

no, the devil was too busy working on byron's free maya bevel plugin. that one erased every single chunk of uv coordinates from your entire mesh as soon as you beveled something.

malcolm · Jul 2006

Agreed, Byron is shit and so is MJ, they are junk. Now that we have completed departed from the original subject does the max bevel preserve uv's?

MoP · Jul 2006

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Yep, it does. Can get a little stretchy if you bevel (chamfer) along a UV seam though.
EdgeChEx (free plugin, muuuch nicer, all-quad bevelling) does an even better job of preserving original UV's.

thomasp · Jul 2006

yes, bevelling in max sometimes manages to keep the uv's

i'm off to trying out that plugin. thanks mop!

Maya Preserve UV's?

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