UVLayout. No matter how fast you can be in Max, UVLayout is so much faster when you learn the hotkeys. I thought I was fast in Max until I learned UVLayout. I unwrap, relax, and straighten in UVLayout, then I pack in Max. I mirror and overlap uvs and Max has the best control for manual packing.
Hi, i been using UVlayout for some time but i still dont get that why some areas especially the tighter areas are still stretched out/distorted. But it;s all almost green. How to you ensure a clean balance uv in UVlayout? Do you cut out that area and smooth them separately?
I use UVlayout at work and it's new auto unwrapping is fairly brilliant. If you do it piece by piece it keeps the UV islands sensibly placed together -- instead of all over the place like the other autounwrap/packs I've used. http://www.headus.com/au/doc/uvlayout-expert/videos/UVLayout-Segment.mov
If your okay with this maybe you can upload the model and I can load it in my UVLayout and see what happens...I don't have the newest version of UVlayout though