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1. Question about Maya UV Layout capabilities?

   

   Topic by Carabiner · Jul 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Alright so - I have a question that I can't figure out how to Google. Polycount to the rescue (perhaps)! Is there a way to use the Layout function in Maya (Edit UVs > Layout) to layout your UVs ... but still keeping some of them stacked? For example, if you have a model with a bunch of small similar parts that you can…

2. Re: Question about Maya UV Layout capabilities?

   

   Reply by Kip McSkipster · Jul 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Not sure if this helps, but I really like the stack shells button in Xform UV: http://www.stefandavid.com/xformuv/

3. Re: Question about Maya UV Layout capabilities?

   

   Reply by Carabiner · Jul 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Awesome, thank you! I will try out that tool in the future. Good to know that I'm not missing out on something.

4. Re: Question about Maya UV Layout capabilities?

   

   Reply by Bartalon · Jul 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   To my knowledge it's not possible for Maya to remember which UV shells are stacked on purpose. If you're working with mirrored shells, you can just snap-align them back on top of each other which is pretty quick. I've heard good things about IPackThat which has the ability to group or freeze UVs so they stay together…