uv — polycount

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Substance Painter issues ? UV seam mark Why are the places I choose mark seam darker? I am using Blender if you know what problem it is please help me ! Thank you	2 Last	Tahyuni Mar 9 2024
How to planify atlases on large scenes Basically that. How do you planify on grouping UVs from a set of objects - atlases as for my understanding - on large scenes to also ensure decent texel density to bake? You do it by area? - idk, kit…	1 Last	poopipe Feb 29 2024
Is there a efficient way to auto Unwrap Uvs by material ID? Hi all!I'm facing the following issue:I have 3d models with multiple material IDs, each with its own texture:In order to increase efficiency and reduce the number of draw calls , I want to unify all …	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 21 2024
Two UVs workflow using Trim Sheets? Found this from Alex Senechal, amazing work ArtStation - Premium Tech Industrial SCIFI Trims and Floor Set - GUMROAD but curious he mentions a two UVs workflow with Trim Sheets. Does anybod…	7 Last	the_dlearner Feb 9 2024
UV Toolkit 2.0 for Blender 2.8 - 2.9 UV Toolkit is a set of tools for fast and high-quality creation of UVs for games and films in Blender. UV Toolkit 2.0 main features straighten UVsalignment toolsselection toolscheck crossing UDIM b…	24 Last	okidoki Feb 2 2024
Bleeding / Aliasing of Textures from Separate UV Isles I am getting aliasing between 2 circular shells, here is the model (in SP):This is the UVs in SP:The exported textures look like this:Note the green has transferred over to the pink and vice versa, c…	0 Last	Ignas Feb 1 2024
UV Unwrap For Stylized Prop Please help, is it necessary to straighten the rectangular shells of such objects?If you straighten it, stretch marks will appear, if you leave it like that, then in theory artifacts may appear on th…	6 Last	Fabi_G Jan 16 2024
Opinions on using rectangular UVs for games I'm making hard-surface models in blender I'll be using for a game made with Godot. I often make models with blender's mirror modifier, which automatically stacks your UVs. That looks great until I'v…	6 Last	OblongUV Dec 2023
Circular Constraint in RizomUV Hi, every one! I wonder if there's a circular constraint. I saw kind of it in UVLayout. I have an issue with a shel of a screws. As just unfold as well as optimize just spoils it. I apllied some cons…	2 Last	dushnyla2309 Dec 2023
RIGHT "flow and behavior" of UV's Good time, comrades! I'm on way to create 3d character and now i'm on phase, where i must create UV map for my subject. So, cause i'm self-taught, I watched and read a lot of information about IT, bu…	5 Last	Kkyc Oct 2023
Website to learn the basics of UV and practice Hello again Polycount, some time ago I made a website to teach about the basics of UV mapping, there is two pages of content about the basics and there is a third page where you can unwrap primtives …	2 Last	dllxtt Aug 2023
ZBrush: UVs getting split on export Why are my uvs are splitted up in maya when I export a mesh from zbrush?Never had this issue before, it is driving me nuts!!!Tools - Export - "TXR"/"GRP" are ONOBJ AND FBX are not workingwhat I expec…	3 Last	aug Jun 2023
ZBRUSH UDIM WORKFLOW (IMPOTED FROM MAYA) I have exported a model with 6 udim tiles from Maya but after sculpting in ZBrush all UV's are overlapping. How to fix it?	1 Last	pxgeek Jun 2023
Multiple mesh maps in a single slot [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi. This is my first time working using Udim Workflow. For my model I use 1 material with 2 Udims (uv tiles) and for each of them I need a mesh map in SP. When I bak…	2 Last	Sani Apr 2023
MAYA BLACKENED MESH ERROR [{"insert":"I've had this issue a few times now.\nI save out my project with it looking normal with no shading issues, but then when I reopen the project the meshes all have this shading\/UV error ma…	4 Last	Bulldog3dz Mar 2023
[3ds max] How to pack UVs with similar direction grouping? [{"insert":"My problem is lightmaps are bleeding a lot because final lightmap atlas usually ends up at 1px\/m density. Increasing padding does nothing at that point since it's barely makes and differ…	7 Last	dimwalker Mar 2023
Medium prop texturing help [{"insert":"I am working on a modular FPS environment for UE5\nI have this couch a medium sized prop.\nThe player can get up close to the prop.\nHow would be the best way to UV and texture this asset…	21 Last	Asim7 Mar 2023
Need help using the Simple_Hair_UV script for creating hair uvs Im using the Simple_Hair_UV script found in the Xgen UE documentation however when i imported my IGS alembic file that i exported, it has 3 different description and multiple splinegrp .How do i add …	3 Last	mickeal_alex Feb 2023
What is your preferred UV workflow? [{"insert":"I switched computers and while reinstalling everything realized that I've been using an old version of Headus UV Layout and textools in Max since 2015. While I've kept up with other softw…	15 Last	michagrandel Feb 2023
How to unwrap a VERY HIGH-POLY ONLY model in Maya 2020? Help me please, I wanna die... Hi, everyone! I hope you are doing well! I have an issue with my graduation project. So I decided to model a mech that is very high detailed and complex, so I modeled each piece of it separately and …	48 Last	poopipe Feb 2023
is uv square a good idea in this case? [{"insert":"I have this type of model that has an oval part. I have almost always textured this type of object without uv squares but I was wondering what is the correct shape if there is one.\n\nIs …	4 Last	Klunk Feb 2023
Baking issues in painter [{"insert":"Hi, I have an asset I created in Maya and is textured with a trim sheet in Maya. I took the asset in zbrush as well to add some damage and cracks and then tried to bake it on the low poly…	1 Last	Fabi_G Jan 2023
UV overlaps sewing [{"insert":"Within all my experience I've always left a center seam whenever I have mirrored overlap. It's kinda necessesary for baking and pretty useful if you have to do some tweaks, but I realised…	6 Last	poopipe Jan 2023
UV Island/ Texel density size match to other assets in the scene [{"insert":"Hi everyone, I am working on a project in Maya and I am new to creating game assets and UV islands. My map in Maya in set to 2048 for all my assets, but I have one asset that is really bi…	4 Last	sprunghunt Jan 2023
Question about baking and uv unwrapping [{"insert":"Hello,\nso i ve read the guide for uv unwrapping and baking. it says where u have hard edges in your mesh, you need a uv border.\nbut how do you unwrap a mesh for baking that has no hard …	1 Last	EarthQuake Jan 2023
Filling UV Space vs Texel Density [{"insert":"Hi\nI was wondering if I could get some advice when it comes to UV unwrapping. I know both texel density and filling up as much space as possible are equally important, however, if you ha…	11 Last	DustyShinigami Dec 2022
[3ds max] Keep UV shells respecting objet orientation [{"insert":"Hi! \nIs there a way - could be using some script or plugin - to unwrap a model but keep the shells respecting the objet orientation? \nThanks!\n"}]	4 Last	Klunk Dec 2022
UV mapping question [{"insert":"Hi all.\nMost of you who are working with 3d programs knows how big pain in a** is Uv mapping, it kills creativity it is slow and everyone wish there would be a magic button to fix it.\nM…	8 Last	Cl3m Nov 2022
Normal seams in unreal. Hey there, long time no posting here, hope this community is still active and hasn´t moved to facebook or discord...So, I have bit of a complicated problem, so bare with me.I´m working on a shortfilm…	4 Last	sprunghunt Nov 2022
Mirror UV seams bake [{"insert":"When I bake a normal map in Substance Painter, I get this seam in the middle. \n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/UFFWB3CJ4KMW\/unti…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2022
Question: metahuman UVs align to the edges. The textures strech. Is this unwrapping good? why? [{"insert":"Checking out Epic's metahuman UVs, I noticed that the UVs are squared all the way to the edges of the DIM.\nI have seen other professional heads doing the same thing; professionally scann…	4 Last	Kanni3d Oct 2022
Different Materials for Alpha, Transparency, Emission [{"insert":"I saw people separating uv islands that have alpha or transparency on them into a different texture set. And a new material is created for it.\nFor example: if there is a broken window ob…	3 Last	rexo12 Sep 2022
[3ds Max] Straighten UV map [{"insert":"It's been a while since I open 3ds Max, and I kinda forget some tools or maybe this one is not exist yet. I want to make the UV straight without getting rid of the triangle on the mesh. I…	8 Last	Ghogiel Sep 2022
Texel Dencity question. [{"insert":"Hello, I have a few questions about texel density.\nI have a model of an industrial air conditioner and my task is to make a texel density of 20.48(+-3 px\/cm). I tried to set this value …	3 Last	Vedro Sep 2022
Problems with baking a hair cap [{"insert":"Hi\nI seem to having some issues when baking a hair cap using Marmoset Toolbag 4. I've been following this tutorial - "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_IU4DkEW…	12 Last	EarthQuake Jun 2022
Maya: Align Internal UV Edges of multiple Shells [{"insert":"Hi All, \nIm looking for a way to align the internal edges of multiple UV shells, so all edges of all shells match in the x axis for example.\nThe image will illustrate what i mean by tha…	6 Last	Benjammin May 2022
Transfer UVs from Mesh to Groom Asset [{"insert":"I'm trying to setup a fur material in UE5 for a squirrel. I'd like to use the skin texture as the color for the fur but the groom doesn't have the correct UVs. UE5 documentation provides …	0 Last	junfanbl May 2022
Overlapping UVs in Substance are functional, yet not compatible with post-unwrap triangulation [{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TL;DR"},{"insert":" (How can Substance tell whether or not I unwrapped in Blender "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"again after"},{"insert":" triangula…	3 Last	tmeucci Apr 2022
Unreal 4 UV issue [{"insert":"Parts of this mesh has some form of weird\/stretched UV's, almost every 2nd face. \nIf re-imported into Maya or Substance Painter, and checked with a Texture it looks correct but broken i…	1 Last	Asim7 Apr 2022
Character Texel Size Optimisation Question [{"insert":"Hi all,\nSo I've been wanting to know the best way to optimize texel size for characters. My goal is to create a realistic game character and I have an issue here where on Unwrap, the tex…	2 Last	ChristheLancer97 Mar 2022
JLTV vehicle materials and UV mapping [{"insert":"Hello, I have been working on this jltv military vehicle for a while and I don't know how many different materials\/UV maps I should use. I have previously made only small items like guns…	0 Last	otmaster6 Feb 2022
[Maya/Unity] Tool for breaking up optimized and UV mapped meshes? [{"insert":"Greetings!\n\nI have been assigned to a VR project that is going to have highly optimized breakable houses, and I'm really having trouble finding a good tool for this. Currently, I'm doin…	3 Last	poopipe Jan 2022
Issue with Output bakes [{"insert":"Hi\nI don't suppose there's a way around this...? I have an issue where, if I select my output path, and save my bakes, and then decide to delete the bake files and re-bake, the preview b…	1 Last	EarthQuake Jan 2022
Proper UV mapping in curve models [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/K84B5T4TE77O\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":9250306,"width":3467,"height":2452,"displ…	5 Last	kuronekoshiii Dec 2021
Exporting low poly from Zbrush to Maya: broken UVs My problem starts with a group of identical low poly meshes in a Zbrush project (3 identical cylinders, 1 subtool, 1 polygroup, no subdivisions). So:1. I export them to Maya (export options: merge uv…	1 Last	onionhead_o Oct 2021
Zbrush doesn't unwrap model properly So I am trying to unwrap my head, and I painted the areas where I want the seam to be. However, no matter what I do, the seam will not go up the back of the head. It just creates a seam at the chin. …	4 Last	Kanni3d Sep 2021
Zen UV for Blender Zen UV is not just a set of tools, it is ready to use pipeline for fast creating UV’s in Blender. It represents an intuitive system created by professionals and refined in real projects. Enjoy this e…	1 Last	SergeyTyapkin Sep 2021
What to do if an unwrap is wrong after baking… HiI have a bit of a minor predicament. I’m currently into texturing my character, and I’ve discovered that a particular piece I’ve finished texturing was actually unwrapped wrong, and the details are…	5 Last	Kanni3d Aug 2021
xNormal Baking Problem I've encountered a weird problem I've not had in my previous bakes with using xNormal. Trying to bake a simple base colour texture, it's now coming out red. Looking through older threads on here, the…	2 Last	DustyShinigami Jul 2021
Need help using the Simple_Hair_UV script for creating hair uvs Im using the Simple_Hair_UV script found in the Xgen UE documentation however when i imported my IGS alembic file that i exported, it has 3 different description and multiple splinegrp .How do i add …	1 Last	mickeal_alex Jul 2021