I generally don't worry too much about smoothing groups, I just split where it's logical and use TexTools UV islands to smoothing groups script. As long as you split your islands logical then it works. Occasionally I combine smoothing groups where there was a split though.
never seen a script that can do this properly tbh. it's hard to tell, but 400 does seem like a lot for a gun like that. but as I see it, 90% of the work is already done, you already have the parts that belong together in fairly square packs, so just scale everything down to around the size of the square (and just take a…
Hi there. I wonder if there´s a more efficient/faster way to pack UVs than doing it by hand. I´ve got an unwrap of a lowpoly gun with split UVs/smoothing groups. So far so good but there are 400+ single uv chunks that need to get packed properly. I know the Max tools, UV Master and Tex Tools but afaik there is no "1 click…