The one thing Max uv editor has that I'm jealous of is that straighten UV island function. But I quite like the modo UV editor; especially with scripts like Farfarer's texel density toolkit and ETERA uv tools
Yes, the "by smoothing groups" part is missing and that REALLY sucks. I love doing that in Max. Although, I wonder how hard it would be for someone to write a script that selected all edges that are bordering differing smoothing groups. Hmm...
I made the switch to Modo and highly recommend it. Its UV tools are some of the best I have ever used. In fact I actually look forward to UVing now. I was talking to a few of their people, and I found out they are big on gaming, personally. You can find a few of them challening people to CS:GO matches and such. From what I…