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UV-Remap: A New Tool for Rearranging the UVs of Textured Models

Hey Polycount Community!I’d like to introduce UV-Remap – a tool that allows you to edit the UVs of already textured 3D models. This is perfect for merging models with different UV maps and texture se…
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Skan

UV view is not equal to viewport view

I have no clue whats going on but all of the sudden my UV view does not longer equal my viewport view (this worked fine an hour ago)I only have ONE set of UV'sYes, its the correct image in my texture…
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Eric Chadwick

UVPackmaster 3 - GPU accelerated UV packer for Maya and Blender

Hi all!I created this topic for a general discussion on UVPackmaster 3 - GPU accelerated, fully featured UV packer for Maya and Blender.We have recently released a Maya variant of the packer. Watch a…
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Noren

Doubts about what to do with a texture/UV map that still has a lot of room left

Greetings, I'm making a car asset for use with game engines. Currently, I have a 256x256 texture map assigned, to give the car model a pixel art look. The car is meant to have a LOD variation model, …
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Noren

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 …
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Eric Chadwick

UVing meshes for trim sheets in Blender 2.8

Hello,MY PROBLEMI'm new to trim sheets, but have a basic idea of how they work. What I don't really know is how to UV objects for them in Blender efficiently, and I haven't really found suitable tuto…
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okidoki

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…
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dushnyla2309

Help, my Uvs does not unfold proprely

Good evening everyone, I desperately need help with a problem that I have had for a while and which I cannot resolve. Every time I unfold UVs it goes wrong, either they fold on themselves or they don…
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Alex_J

Advice with clothing texture seams

HiThis is something I've been struggling to get right for a while now, so was wondering if anyone can offer advice on how they deal with this.At the moment, I'm working on finishing off my high poly …
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DustyShinigami

1 month experience, haven't been critiqued yet, need UV help

Hello! My name is Saad and I got into modeling about a month ago, using Blender and Substance Painter. I intend to turn 3D modeling into a secondary source of income within the next few years. I have…
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Eric Chadwick

[WIP] Truck

Hi! (How are you guys?)I've made a mining truck model. I intend to use it as portfolio in an asteroid mining concept  with unreal.Just a prop, not driveable.I went for airless tires as it seemed…
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Fabi_G

Multiple Props, 1 UV Set

Props don't fill the UV1 fully so after I am done painting and exporting the first asset. I layout another models uvs into the remaining space and texture them too.My problem is: after I export the s…
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poopipe

Need opinions on round edge normal baking workflow

Hi all,I have been following quite tiring workflow to get a nice round edge look on low poll meshes for game assets but not sure if this can be improved or if I'm doing some unnecessary work.Well, to…
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poopipe

UV issue with no reason in sight.

As you can see here I UV mapped it fairly well and there is no UV overlap of the highlighted UV islands. But when baked in substance painter and in Marmoset these issues appear.The issues circled are…
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sacboi

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…
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michagrandel

UV-place the same trim sheet evenly on several objects

[{"insert":"Hi community :-)\nFor my project I am building a modular kit with Blender.\nI have several individual pieces and would like to texture them using a trim sheet.\nThe problem is that (not l…
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gnoop

Imported from Zbrush, used UV Master, now baked maps are overlapping in Marmoset

[{"insert":"This is my first time baking. I sculpted my model in Zbrush, used UV Master to unwrap all my subtools. Imported it to Marmoset, set up a bake project and got maps like this.\n"},{"insert"…
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EarthQuake

Import from maya help

[{"insert":"Hey folk, hope y'all are keeping well, I have been in class learning baking and after I import my model from maya to marmoset, I get some weird geometry and I was hoping to get some help,…
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EarthQuake

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…
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Epitaph

Keyshot 9 // Why my alembic from Maya is missing UV !? Please help :(

Hi there :3For my final exam, Im trying to export an animation from Maya to render it in Keyshot and its almost impossible. I tried everything OBJ, FBX, The Keyshot plug-in and nothing works. I have …
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carstrek3dart2101

UV Shell Too Large To Fit In UV Map!

[{"insert":"I'm making a simple modular road asset that will be used with the UE5 spline tool to make a highway in my scene. However it is giving me some problems when it comes to UV mapping. I'm try…
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poopipe

Question about UV orientation

[{"insert":"Hi\nJust a quick question - is it generally okay to have UV shells at an angle? I believe I was taught that they should always be vertical or horizontal, but in this case, where the shell…
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poopipe

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…
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Benjammin

Should I straighten my UVs or not?

[{"insert":"I recently learned that straightening our UVs is a good thing to as it reduces seams and helps in better UV space utilization. I tried the same on a model that I am working on and now I a…
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parikshittiwari

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…
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kuronekoshiii

How to fix UV distortion on low poly objects?

When working with low poly models I've found that they're prone to heavy distortion like in the image above, even though it's UV map is square and clean (IMO), simple objects like this distort heavil…
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Noors

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…
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SergeyTyapkin

How would one divide up this vehicle by material / UV map?

Hello, I have a model here (a "Vespa 150 TAP", if you wanted reference) and am having trouble deciding how I should divide it up material-wise for UV maps / importing to substance painter. I figured …
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JackofSpades261

Checker Map Toolbox for Maya - Free Hotfix 6

Intentionally posting here because this tool was created for 3D artists.Devjit requested that we should have some new features in the Checker Map Toolbox including being able to rotate the checker …
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malcolm

long object uv

Hi guys! making a portfolio peace and stuck with UV. I have pretty long object and dunno how to slice it properly. I wanna make as little as possible seams and in 1 variant it's just streched out fro…
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oglu

Help with UV mapping

How to uv map it so that texture curves along surface with minimal distortion, it's a flat surface, is it possible?
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AbhiMahant

Tip for unwrapping large surfaces like walls, floors, and ceiling of room?

Anyone here have recommendations for guides, tips, techniques, etc, for UVing a room? i.e.) floor, walls, and ceiling of a bedroom as an example. I mostly work with props and characters, so going up…
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local306

Modular Game Environment. Is it better to have more or less?

I'm making a game environment in Unreal Engine 4. I will also be using Photoshop, Quixel Mixer, and Blender for everything. The game environment is more modular.Is it better to have more objects (dup…
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Oblivion2500

Question about UV stretching and general workflows

Hi guys! I need your help with unwraping this model of knife. I have managed to do most of model, but this handle is tough enemy for me. I would like to straighten uv island, but then uv is streched …
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Yzii

Maya - Straighten UV borders

Hello! I made this model and I would like to add some details in ZBrush.In order to make displacement looks right, I need to make the UV borders straight. I tried the "straighten border" tool availab…
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oglu

How can I UV a model when its subtools had been merged and decimated? Confusion in the workflow.

Hi,please take my apology if this had been explained already before but there is so much information out there that one can easily get lost and I am also new to Polycount. I am very new to 3D modelin…
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Lenka_Dari

Wrapping a PBR material correctly around low poly geometry

Hi there,I am trying to model a dumpster for rendering in Unreal Engine and am currently working on the wheels /casters. As you can see, I have tried to keep my geometry as simple as possible as this…
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turbovulture

How Should I Unwrap Organic Mesh Without Visible Seams?

Hi!I'm kinda losing my nerves here. I made a 3D model of eggplant and now I wanted to give it some textures, but I stumbled upon this issue.The seams where I have put them, are visible. I tried to sn…
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Epitaph

The little trick of modelling a Cartoony House

Hi guys! I have just found an interesting tutorial of The Foundry at YouTube. It calls: 'Modeling a Cartoony House'.It was useful for me, some kind. This is The Cartoony House I have made, after watc…
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modelk

Problem with two texture set list uploading to Mixamo

Hi, I will try to explain me the better I can and I will upload a lot of photos for improve my explanations because I don't know how to explain this, apologies in advance.I have a model with two "par…
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kaiman

How does the process of preparing "easy to understand" uv-map for game asset looks like ?

I got stuck in part where I should prepare uv-map the way that if someone else looks at it, he can easilly see which part of mesh is at which part of uv-space. I will go with tank as example again. L…
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pior

Multiple UV Tile Normal Map seams on Character Model Substance Painter textures

I recently sculpted a character model from scratch in Mudbox, built the low-poly version by Quad Draw in Maya, unwrapped and cut the UV's into mirrored shells over multiple UV tiles, Baked the Normal…
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rgadiy

WIP: Need advice on topology optimisation for this kind of 3D situation:

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on this sword and want to improve my topology skill in general . The egravements seen at the center are meant to be recessed into the metal as I plan to use anot…
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VintageWarm

Stretched materials

(First time posting here so lemme know if there's something I'm not including or whatever)I'm a relatively new environment artist learning the ropes. I modeled a ground satellite in Blender 2.8 and b…
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Obscura

Efficient way to texture a topographically complex mech for Unreal?

Hi, I'm attempting to texture a mech but am not sure if what I'm doing is a good way to do it.The model was made in Sketchup so it's topographically "weird", I'm using 3dsmax to unwrap it and plannin…
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BlueBlankey

What Does a Good UV Map Look Like?

Hi everyone, I am updating my portfolio and will be showing UV maps alongside my new models. Are there any general expectations/standards for how good UV maps should look in general? My current model…
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b_beauchamp

"repeating" UVs in Maya

Let me explain what i try to make:I modeled a chainsaw:I unwrapped the chain and added a "tileable" texture to the material:I know that stuff that goes outside to the right from "0-1" it will repeat …
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goekbenjamin

Why is this happening?

So i have my model almost fully textured and this weird issue(UV map i assume) pops up.I UV mapped it correctly with no seams there as you can see with the UV map photobut in substance painter the en…
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Epitaph

Questions about UV best practices in game development.

(Looking for someone I can send a quick message here and there on Discord or another app to get answers when I get hung up on minor issues. Google works sometimes, but it can be hard to find a specif…
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Eric Chadwick

[Substance Painter] Distorted projection issue with overlapping UV islands

So, I have the assumption (correct me if I’m mistaken) that identical UV islands (in this case, for sections that are symmetrically mirrored on the mesh), can just be stacked over each other to give …
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zachagreg

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