made a small video clip displaying how fast you can be with unfold: http://www.dejawolf.com/tutorials/maxbug/fastuv.avi this bug is one of the largest speedbumps in my UVmapping workflow, because unfold has the ability to be even speedier than it is now.
I've never seen this before. The AVI won't open for me, so I can't check it. How are you unwrapping the model? You selecting the main model and applying a unrwap on it? That's different from how I do it. I always select the sub-object faces that I want to unwrap, apply a UVMap, then the UVUnwrap. When I get home I'll see…
applying a UVunwrap to the entire model is how I usually do this. There is a sub-object mode within UVunwrap that lets you select individual elements or faces and unwrap those. I don't use the UVmap modifier at all now. if you have a series of regular objects - for example a pile of bricks - you can very quickly unwrap…