UV Mapping

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Reflections on edges of model [Baking problem in substance] i am getting this problem while baking and i tried harden/soften edges in maya but still this reflection(i don't know what to call them) keeps appearing .uv &…	2 Last	gnoop Apr 2020
[SOLVED] Maya Udim layout scale issue Hi,So i have a car that i have unwrapped. when i layout using only one UV tile it gives the correct scale for each UV shell in relation to each other ( the chequerboard pattern is the same size acros…	3 Last	David_McCabe Apr 2020
UV maps in the scene Hello everyone! Sorry for my english, it's not my mother tongue;) So i created a small scene just for this topic to find an answer I seek. And here it is: should I use 1 uv map for all the objects in…	6 Last	Lethe Apr 2020
RIZOMUV HELP So i am making a drum mag for the AKM i made a little bit ago and need help. I have it UVed just the way i and know you need to straighten everything you can to prevent aliasing in the maps but when …	10 Last	Kanni3d Mar 2020
Maya Interactive Groom Uvs Can someone please explain to me why the UVs for the Linear wire in Interactive Groom look like this when I convert them to Polygons? I should be getting perfect squares on my checkerboard not rectan…	1 Last	poopipe Mar 2020
Help, Desperate to understand these normal maps! So I've accepted I need to remap most likely but, before doing so I need some clarity. A- was my original low polyB- is my "low" poly nowC- is the high polyhttps://polycount.com/discussion/81154…	17 Last	jdellinger98 Mar 2020
Visible UV seams in Substance Painter at mirror edge Hello there, this is something that I've been trying to resolve for a few days now, and I thought that maybe it's time to ask someone else for help since I don't seem to make progress on that matter …	2 Last	JackTheFoxOtter Mar 2020
Overlapping lips problem on head UV Hey,so I'm trying to UV map the head of my character and I'm having trouble getting the mouth area unwrapped.Basically, the mouth/lips are overlapping itself, I wanted it to be straight and with a ho…	3 Last	Mink Feb 2020
3DSMax UV Packing Problem Hello :)I'm kinda new to UV unwrapping so I'd like to have your help here.So, I unwrapped all my individual pieces, collapsed all the pieces together and applied an UVW unwrap modifier to the collaps…	6 Last	xMIDIMA Feb 2020
How can I make this UV smoother ? UVI want to make it look neat but when I unfold it just becomes a mess not sure why	1 Last	poopipe Feb 2020
UV Mapping - From Maya to Zbrush to Substance Painter Hello,a month ago I started discovering 3D and its many software: Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter/Designer, UE4... If a lot of things are complex, they always (even Zbrush...) feel pretty logical to …	5 Last	zachagreg Feb 2020
Maya - UV Mapping more efficiently Hey there, I'm a beginner and after modeling a "pretty complex" house that I want to refine in Zbrush, I took a fairly long time UV Mapping it. Here's some questions that came to my mind:1 - Is …	2 Last	Benja_3d Jan 2020
Maya - UVs - Working with mirrored shells and the layout tool Hi All! I'm looking for solutions to speed up my UVing workflow. One method in particular that I am looking for is a way to keep my mirrored stacked shells together while using the layout tool in may…	1 Last	oglu Jan 2020
Best way to unwrap islands - The U+U unwrap? Hey, so we have been trying some things when asking ourselves which would be the best way to unwrap simple shapes.I had stretching issues when making large islands and the criteria are those: (Yes th…	24 Last	pior Jan 2020
UVing with good texel density MAYA I always have trouble with uving with good texel density so how do i map uv of different object with correct texel density without combining them i know when i combine them and unfold the TD will be …	2 Last	Popeye9 Jan 2020
Maya to UE4 Lightmap Issues?? Hi all! I came across an Issue on my Daredevil Scene where I'm getting dark shadow lines on the places where my walls and other modular assets connect. I did use a lot of vertex snapping and boosted …	8 Last	Kanni3d Jan 2020
weird Zbrush UV master bug HiI have a high res and polypainted model in Zbrush.I duplicate it, take off the higher subdivisions, UV master, then reproject the original mesh on it.But then when trying to generate a diff map, th…	4 Last	ramer0 Jan 2020
blender to substance painter issue baking discontinuous seams in world space normal I am struggling with an issue when exporting to substance painter.whenever I export my model into substance and bake it, all the world space normals have discontinued UV seams, this means triplanar p…	1 Last	Brandon.LaFrance Jan 2020
UV with weird pixels? I'm kinda new to this Modelling stuff and started learning about textures and bakes. From here to now I had some progress but got stucked on this:My normal map is very pixelated and I have no clue of…	4 Last	TheGabmeister Jan 2020
Substance Painter - Normal Seam Issue - UV size? Hi,Apologies if I am going about this the wrong way, I've been hunting around for an explanation but have not been able to find any:I've noticed that when baking a simple cube in Substance Painter I …	11 Last	annebakerim Dec 2019
Some UV questions Hello everyone. So I know the basics about UV unwrapping. I make smoothing groups, then add seams based on those, unwrap and use an unpacker to maximize the texel density. I am a hard surface modeler…	1 Last	Obscura Dec 2019
For those with a chequered past - or future. RizomUV Megathread Hi, and welcome to the RizomUV thread. Who, and what are we? RizomUV is a fast, standalone UV mapper created for speed and ease. The currently two and a half person team is working…	5 Last	Justo Nov 2019
Modular wall and lighting issues. Hello everyone, I've been self learning 3dmax and Unreal for a while but i can't figure out how to solve this problem with (i believe) UVs/Lightmap/Unreal. It looks like out here you can find a lot o…	2 Last	Oliverzalez Nov 2019
Could someone help me? Maya is doing wierd UV map unfolds. Usually Maya with properly placed cuts, unfolds the uv shells just right, but when it doesnt, in those cases 3d max can help, depending on what I'm looking for, mostly to straighten the shells, but r…	3 Last	Spyti Oct 2019
UV mapping for "industry standard" Noob question. I'm wandering what UV mapping is expected by game industry.No distortion in map. Is it good enough left example, or it should be more like right example ?	8 Last	Ghogiel Oct 2019
PolyravenUV - UV script for maya Hello everybody, a few days ago I've released my script for MAYA, which helps me a lot when creating UVs. I thought somebody else might find it useful as well.It can help with packing for UDIMs, can …	7 Last	S_Silard Oct 2019
[Lightmap UVs] ~ How can I handle a very large asset with very little contiguous surfaces? This is the asset I need to bake the lightmap for (the building in the centre):This thing is 10 meters long, 6 meters wide and 5 meters tall.Every plank is a separate mesh and there are some details …	12 Last	Steamy_Steve Oct 2019