UV Tools 3.2m

Name: UV Tools 3.2m
SKU: 15823
Price: 20 USD
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Easy to use Unwrap tools for Archviz, Gamedev and more.

Script requirements:

3dsMax 2013-2024

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Tweak

Move and Rotate texture in 3dsMax viewport.

Align

Align U or V axis to edge end or center.

Super Stitcher

Stitch multiple elements simultaneously.

Transform

Move, Scale, Rotate UV by values.

Orient

Orient UV elements horizontally or vertically.

Pick scale

Get UV scale from another polygon.

Scale in units

Rescale UV to any units value or to Real-world mapping.

Randomize

Random UV Flip, Rotate, Offset, Scale.

Checker

Use preinstalled checker textures or add your own.

Real-world mapping supported.

Original materials can be restored even after 3dsMax crash.

Relax

Relax polygons in viewport.

Normalize

Equalize texel density to min, max or average.

Show bitmaps

Show bitmaps on selected objects or selected polygons.

UV Morpher

Create flat object from mapping.

Can be used for Skin Wrap retopology and other techniques.

Transfer

Transfer selection between Unwrap and Poly.

Hide elements

Hide selected polygons to get access to occluded areas.

UV operations

Many useful UV operations.

Learn more in Help section.

Customize GUI

You can choose favorite rollouts for Main Tab and change their order.

Light and Dark themes with auto detection.

Actions

Assign any UV Tools action to hotkey or toolbar button.

Combine actions to create complex one-click mapping operations.

Every action has documented arguments for advanced users.

AND MUCH MORE

Installation

Run “UVTools.mzp” in 3ds Max (Drop file in viewport or menu Scripting > Run script).
Click Install
Go to: Customize > Customize User Interface > Toolbars > Category “Nik Scripts – UV Tools”
Add “Open UV Tools UI” button to toolbar

Uninstallation

Run “UVTools.mzp”
Click Uninstall
Dlx file can not be deleted while 3ds Max is running. You will be asked to open a folder with this file to delete it manually after closing 3ds Max.

For UV Tools 2.x users

You don’t need to uninstall UV Tools 2, installer will delete all old files.

But you need to delete UV Tools 2 toolbar button manually. UV Tools 3 button should be added from “Nik Scripts – UV Tools” Category only.

ChangeLog

[3.2m] – 2023.04

New. 3ds Max 2024 support.
New. Pack Unfold3D method (3ds Max 2022+).
New. Set Texel Density as Group mode (Ctrl+Click).
Fix. Pack padding unwrap bug. The same padding value led to different results.
Fix. Stack and Group error.
Fix. Tweak and Align macroses startup error in 3ds Max 2023.
Fix. Errors caused by .tx files.
Fix. Checker errors caused by Corona Lights.

[3.2l] – 2022.04

New. 3dsMax 2023 support.
Fix. Dr.Web false positive reaction (Error 0x800700E1).
Fix. Stack and Group. Incorrect Unwrap groups creation.

[3.2k] – 2022.01

New. Multi-Tile (UDIM) tools.
New. Auto dialog height option can be disabled to resize dialog manually.
New. Relax whole elements is now optional (Ctrl+Click).
New. Relax Until Flat (Shift+Click).
New. Planar Mapping “Ignore object scale” option.
New. Fix W for area calculation can be disabled in Settings – Mapping.
New. Taking object scale into account for area calculations. Can be disabled in Settings – Mapping.
New. Hold Esc while pressing UVt button on the toolbar to reset UI position.
Improved. Texel Density tools now uses average resolution for non-square bitmaps.
Improved. Fit UV button functions rearranged.
Improved. UV Tools can be installed on multiple 3dsMax versions in common userscripts folder.
Improved. Hide tabs when all rollouts in the Main tab.
Improved. Settings window now remembers last category.
Fix. UV Morpher Cut error when using meters system units.
Fix. Checker Assign. Error if bitmap was empty.
Fix. Checker Remove. Internal unwrap maps list cleaning.

[3.2j] – 2021.05 (Restart 3dsMax after update)

New. Select UV elements. Grow if necessary (Ctrl+Click).
New. Rotate 180 degrees. Shift+Click.
New. System caterogy in UV Tools Settings.
Improved. Tooltips display time increased to 30 sec.
Fix. Relax “Unknown system exception” caused by Unwrap bug.
Fix. Stitch and Randomize Geo Elements “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION” error/crash in some cases.
Fix. Stitcher weld self seams when Stitch Self Seams is disabled.

[3.2i] – 2021.04

New. Texel Density Tools.
New. Texel Density Checkers. Pixels are not blurred in viewport. Keeps original material.
Improved. Checker textures refresh.
Fix. Stitcher Auto Flip Elements incorrect calculation.
Fix. Rollouts order and state issues.
Fix. Checker maps count was limited to 6 for unknown reason.
Fix. Cycle viewport bitmaps if no material assigned error.
Fix. Orient by length bug introduces in 3.2g.
Fix. Planar mapping bugs introduces in 3.2g.
Fix. Match Height/Width was broken in 3.2g.
Removed. “Checker – select texture file”. Ctrl+Click is for Texel Density checkers now.

[3.2h] – 2021.04

Fix. Dotnet Int64 to UIntPtr error in old 3ds Max versions.

[3.2g] – 2021.04 (Restart 3dsMax after update)

New. 3ds Max 2022 support.
New. Super Stitcher. Stitches many elements sequentially.
New. Align In Place. Optionally Loop and Ring before align.
New. (Geom Tools) UV to 3D and vice versa. Non-destructive workflow.
New. Checker. Assign previous checker from the folder (Shift+Click).
New. Checker. Disable tiling option.
New. Checker. 2 new textures with stripes.
New. Checker. Disable unnecessary checker textures in settings.
New. UV Smooth to Editable Poly baseobject.
New. Planar mapping “Element centers” option.
Improved. New UV Tools Settings dialog.
Improved. Use Unwrap Pro plugin option in Settings (only if installed).
Improved. Removing checker also cleans internal Unwrap texture list.
Improved. Planar mapping by element speed.
Improved. Transfer uv edges speed.
Improved. Stability, memory and speed optimizations.
Fix. Errors related to Unwrap selection filter.
Fix. Errors related to Unwrap added to selected faces.
Fix. Flatten by SmoothGroups didn’t update changed smooth groups.
Fix. Tweak and Align rare selection bug.
Fix. Tweak memory leak in max 2016+.
Fix. Collapse points by distance bug.

[3.2f] – 2021.02

New. Planar mapping by element. It will keep existing uv shells and seams.
New. Orient elements to longest side new algorithm. Now it will find best rotation angle automatically.
New. Collapse whole stack if no modifiers are selected.
Improved. Planar mapping “Weighted normals” option.
Improved. Bitmap to UV new method without Unwrap. A lot faster, no memory leak.
Fix. Collapse points by distance memory leak.
Fix. Interactive scale memory leak caused by unwrap bug.

[3.2e] – 2021.01

New. Bitmap to UV. Transfer bitmap transformations to UV (tiling, offset, rotation).
New. Collapse to Poly can now be disabled in settings.
New. UnwrapPro support for Transfer selection to new modifier.
Improved. Rw to Tiling. Bitmaps offset and rotation support.
Improved. Planar Mapping now using weighted normals calculation.
Fix. Unwrap bug when relax was cancelled by Esc and next relax run with 1 iteration only.

[3.2d] – 2020.12

New. Grow selection to smooth surfaces. Select by Smooth Groups moved to Shift+Click.
New. Planar Mapping grow to element (Ctrl+Click).
New. Planar Mapping in World coords (Shift+Click).
Improved. Transfer edges between UV and Poly is much faster.
Fix. Planar Mapping bad alignment in some cases.
Fix. Select by Smooth Groups if no Smooth Group assigned.
Fix. Scale to size from wrong center point in some cases.

[3.2c] – 2020.11

New. Set Map Channel and reset UV (Alt+Click). Similar to Abandon mode.
New. Tweak and Align select Unwrap Group.
New. UV Editor auto Zoom Extents Selected. Optional.
Fix. Break by ID incorrect offset order.
Fix. 3dsMax 2017 icons background color.
Fix. Subrollout height bug on some systems.
Fix. Spread (Shuffle) macros was broken.
Fix. Ctrl+Click Planar bitmap error.

[3.2b] – 2020.11

Improved. Switch to previous modifier after Delete or Collapse.
Fix. Convert RW > Tiling fitting to tile.
Fix. Subobject Level buttons state bug.
Fix. Subrollouts height bug.

[3.2a] – 2020.10

Fix. 3dsMax 2021 Rollouts bug if taskbar is on top.
Fix. 3dsMax 2018 icons background color.
Fix. Bad icons when Windows UI Scaling enabled.

[3.2] – 2020.10

New. 2 customizable Tabs in GUI.
New. Checker automatic guess size from object material maps.
New. More map classes support for Show maps in viewport .
New. Distribute elements evenly.
New. Sort elements by Height/Width.
New. Randomly spread elements in multiple stacks.
New. Flip to Left/Right and Up/Down (Shift+Click).
New. Scale uniformly by texture aspect ratio. Planar bitmap mapping was removed.
New. Weld (Collapse) uv vertices by distance threshold.
New. Convert real-world mapping to regular tiling.
New. Pack choose default method (Non-Convex added in 3dsMax 2017+).
New. Close UV Editor (Right Click).
New. Open UV Editor with Filter Selection (Ctrl+Click).
Improved. Planar mapping better alignment (similar to UVW Map – Normal Align).
Improved. Show/Hide maps in viewport speedup.
Improved. Tweaker/Aligner better mouse hit detection.
Improved. UV Smooth speedup.
Improved. Invert Rotate 90 can now be disabled.
Improved. Rename Unwrap to “UV Tools Unwrap” can now be disabled.
Fix. Save Unwrap Setup error.
Fix. Issues with Undo in some functions.
Fix. UV Editor selection flickering when nothing is selected.
Fix. Pick Morpher error.

[3.1.9] – 2020.08

Improved. Dialogs opened by Right Click can be closed by second Right Click.
Improved. Main UI toolbar button checked state. Uncheck to close UI.
Improved. Transfer edges uv > poly speedup.
Fix. Morpher Cut error.
Fix. Align U/V selection bug. Other functions now work while Align.

[3.1.8] – 2020.07

New. Break and offset each material ID (MultiTile by ID).
New. Select objects by materials from selected objects. Fast and accurate.
New. Stitch automatic flip inverted cluster.
New. Temporary Show/Hide UV Tools UI. Right Click on Settings button.
Fix. Better objects validation. Checker on proxies now works.
Fix. Break by material ID didn’t work if ID was changed below Unwrap.
Fix. Transfer. Occasional “Selection is empty” error.
Fix. Edges align undo broken.
Fix. Removed “Select Hard” button. EditablePoly has Right Click on Hard button.

[3.1.7] – 2020.06 (Restart 3dsMax after update)

New. All tools now work while Tweak and Align on last tweaked element.
New. Add Unwrap automatically for most functions.
New. Shrink to Element. Remove partially selected elements from selection.
New. Add Pelt seams. Shift+Click.
Improved. Unwrap added to subselection now supported.
Improved. Interactive scale average uv size in statusbar.
Improved. Align As Group for all sublevels.
Improved. Code optimization. Speedup 200-800% in some cases.
Improved. Interactive scale now have min and max limits.
Improved. Added “UVTools_” to macroses names. Now it’s easier to find them.
Fix. Tweak and Align rare selection bug in max <2017.
Fix. Missing Manage State Sets on some systems.
Fix. Pelt seams select on multiple objects.
Fix. Select longest edges on multiple objects.

[3.1.6] – 2020.04

New. Stack similar elements outside tile. Mainly for texure baking.
Fix. Morpher repack if something was selected.

[3.1.5] – 2020.03

New. 3ds Max 2021 support.

[3.1.4] – 2020.03

Improved. Transfer edges progressbar.
Improved. Added “growselection” argument in Randomize Macros.
Fix. Rare EditPoly errors.
Fix. Transfer edges bug.

[3.1.3] – 2020.03

Improved. Stack similar to first selected element.

[3.1.2] – 2020.03 (Restart 3dsMax after update)

New. Select similar uv elements based on topology.
New. Stack and Group similar uv elements.
New. Easy transfer subselection.
New. Random select uv elements.
New. Unwrap Pro plugin support.
New. Dialog auto height option.
Improved. Bitmap show/hide separate macroses.
Improved. Speed increased in cases with huge elements count.
Improved. Pack if selection is empty.
Improved. Morpher faster repack.
Fix. Editable Patch errors. Still not supported.
Fix. Checker on spline subselection error.
Fix. Rotate by edge. Incorrect angle in some cases.

[3.1.1] – 2020.02

New. QuickPeel button.
Improved. Morpher Cut boolean errors handling.
Improved. Morpher Cut and Skin Wrap better distance calculation.
Improved. Planar mapping from bitmap moved to Ctrl+Click Planar bitmap.
Fix. Morpher Cut. Morpher value 100 removed.
Fix. Flatten and Normal mapping size in Macroses.

[3.1] – 2020.02

New. Packing. Default Unwrap pack methods are used.
New. Move Right, Left, Top, Bottom. U, V buttons in Transform.
New. QuickPeel action Macros.
Fix. Checker on group error introduced in 3.0.9.

[3.0.9] – 2020.01

New. Morhper – Multiple objects support.
New. Morhper – Channel 1 value spinner.
New. Morhper – Show morpher and original objects as box switch.
New. Morhper – Add Skin Wrap to selected objects with nearest morphers.
New. Morhper – Cut selected objects by nearest morphers border.
Fix. Tweak Alt rotate undo.

[3.0.8] – 2019.12

New. Textures Rollout. Size to Tiling.
New. Flatten, Box and Planar mapping add Unwrap modifier automatically.
New. UV Morpher create Morpher from selected polygons.
New. UV Morpher auto open edges fast fix.
New. Restore Map Channel 1 in Settings.
Fix. Edges selection after Pelt seams selection.
Fix. Linked objects Collapse error.

[3.0.7] – 2019.11

New. Break by Material ID.
New. Flatten by Material ID.
New. Flatten by Smoothing Group.
New. Select EditablePoly and EditPoly hard edges.
New. Interactive Uniform Scale uv size message at 3dsMax bottom.
Fix. Show/hide bitmaps error on some 3dsMax localizations.
Fix. UV Morpher Fix opened edges error.
Fix. Flatten and Normal mapping size after Pick Size.

[3.0.6] – 2019.10

New. Scale from point. Right Click: Setup scale point.
New. Transform Scale and Rotate from Zero.
Fix. Tweaker and Aligner undo bug.
Fix. Pick scale wrong face selection.
Fix. Align to edge center wrong position.

[3.0.5] – 2019.10

Fix. Pelt seams errors in 3dsMax 2018+.

[3.0.4] – 2019.10 (Restart 3dsMax after update)

New. Pelt seams select.
New. Pelt seams replace.
New. Pelt seams clear.
New. Improved Stitch with auto scale elements.
Fix. Auto Lock 3dsMax UI.
Fix. Critical bug in 3dsMax 2014 Design, maybe some other versions too. 3dsMax restart is necessary.

[3.0.3] – 2019.10

Fix. Wrong Unwrap default setup.

[3.0.2] – 2019.10

Fix. Autostart bug.

[3.0.1] – 2019.10

New. Show bitmaps work on objects with checker.
New. Settings – Save Unwrap modifier setup.
Fix. Critical loader bug on some systems.

[3.0] – 2019.10

Initial 3.0 Release
Chages since 2.x:
- All functions work with multiple objects with same Unwrap
- Speedup 400-2000% in different scenarios
- 99% functions rewritten from scratch
- Macroses
- Tweak and Align in viewport
- UV channel selector
- Stitch
- Size add/substract by step
- Flatten and normal mapping setup
- Planar mapping in real size
- Planar mapping in bitmap aspect ratio
- Pick UV size from another polygon
- Rotate 90 and Flip by Element
- Orient Elements by lenght
- Hide geometry polygons in Unwrap
- Change rollouts order for 2017+

[2.x] – 2017

Obsolete

Help

	Open UV Tools Settings dialog. Right Click: Hide/Show Main UI.
Add	Add Unwrap modifier to selected objects. Map Channel from dropdown will be used. Ctrl+Click: Clone any current modifier. Right Click: Find first Unwrap modifier.
MAP CHANNEL	Set Unwrap Map Channel. Ctrl+Click: Add Unwrap with selected Map Channel. Alt+Click: Set Map Channel and reset UV (Additional query will popup).
Collapse	Collapse to any current modifier. Ctrl+Click: Reset Xform selected objects. Right Click: Delete any current modifier.
Tweak	Tweak mapping in viewport. Shift+Drag: Move with axis snap. Ctrl+Drag: Rotate. Angle step can be set in UV Tools settings. Alt+Click: Rotate +90 (clockwise). Alt+Ctrl+Click: Rotate -90 (counterclockwise).
	Align U axis to edge end. Ctrl+Click: Align to edge center. Alt+Click: Align + reverse.
	Align V axis to edge end. Ctrl+Click: Align to edge center. Alt+Click: Align + reverse.
Editor	Open Unwrap UV Editor. Ctrl+Click: Open UV Editor with Filter Selected enabled. Right Click: Close UV Editor.
	Vertex SubObject level. Ctrl+Click: Convert current Unwrap selection to Vertices.
	Edge SubObject level. Shift+Click: Select outline Edges from current Unwrap selection. Ctrl+Click: Convert current Unwrap selection to Edges.
	Polygon SubObject level. Ctrl+Click: Convert current Unwrap selection to Polygons.
	Select UV elements (aka shells or islands). Shift+Click: Select geometry elements. Ctrl+Click: If selection didn't change (elements are already selected), then grow selection. Right Click: Keep only fully selected elements. Remove partially selected elements from selection.
	Select UV borders (open edges). Ctrl+Click: Grow selected edges to UV borders. Right Click: Select longest opened edges.
	Select Peel seams. Shift+Click: Add Peel seams to existing seams. Ctrl+Click: Replace Peel seams with current selection. Right Click: Clear all or selected Peel seams.
	Loop selection. Ctrl+Click: Grow Loop. Right Click: Shrink Loop.
	Ring selection. Ctrl+Click: Grow Ring. Right Click: Shrink Ring.
	Break selection. Shift+Click: Break by Material ID. Ctrl+Click: Break loop of Unwrap selection. Right Click: Setup break by Material ID. Offset by Material ID: If enabled then each ID will be offset by U and V to create MultiTile. Columns: Number of offsets by U axis (columns in MultiTile).
	Stitch selected uv elements sequentially. You can select any number of uv elements on multiple objects. Stitching occurs in the order of faces numeration. Child element can only be stitched to 1 parent element, but you can stitch many children to the same parent. Child element could also be a parent for next child etc. If edges or vertices are selected, then all elements that share these edges will be stitched. If polygons are selected, then only the selected polygons will be stitched. Shift+Click: Weld shared vertices. Ctrl+Click: Loop edges or Select whole elements before Stitch. Right Click: Stitch setup. Move Seams Vertices: Move children seams vertices to parent vertices. Weld Seams: Weld seams vertices. Stitch Self Seams: Stitch seams of the same element. Scale Elements: Scale children elements. Rotate Elements: Rotate children elements. Auto Flip Elements: Auto flip children elements.
	Select by Material ID. Ctrl+Click: Select polygons with same ID on all Unwrap objects.
	Grow polygon selection to smooth surfaces. Shift+Click: Select polygons with any matched Smooth Groups. Ctrl+Click: Select polygons with the exact same Smooth Groups.
	Assign checker material. Original materials are stored on objects and can be restored safely any time. Unnecessary checker textures can be disabled in UV Tools settings. You can add your own textures to the checker folder. Shift+Click: Assign previous checker from folder. Ctrl+Click: Open Texel Density Checker dialog. Select item in the list to apply Texel Density checker material with selected resolution. Actual resolution of these bitmaps is 512px to reduce viewport filtering issue. UV Tools gets resolution of these bitmaps from their filenames and use tiling to mimic bigger resolutions. Right Click: Restore objects materials.
	Enable checker self illumination. This will reveal shaded parts of object.
	Disable checker texture tiling. Disable tiling in 3ds Max 2021 is broken.
	Enable checker real-world size.
TILE	Checker map tiling or real-world size. Depends on Checker real-world option.
	Show material bitmaps in viewport. Switch selected objects bitmaps in the cyclic order 1>2>3>1>etc. If polygons are selected, then only bitmaps of selected material IDs will be used. Right Click: Hide all bitmaps of selected objects.
	Select objects that share any materials with selected objects. Ctrl + Click: Select objects that have exact same materials as selected objects.
	Backface cull On. Right Click: Backface cull Off.
	Display material On. Switch display object materials and wireframe color. Right Click: Display material Off.
Main Extra	Open Main or Extra tools tab. Tabs content is customizable in Settings. Right Click: Close/Open all rollouts in Tab.

Rw	Real-world UV size mode.
UV SIZE	UV square size. If real-world mode is enabled then spinner will be inactive. UV size defines size of square in mapping procedures. For example: 500mm means mapping 500x500mm relative to geometry.
+ -	Add UV size by step. Default step is 500 units. For example, if UV size was 330mm and you click +- then UV size will change to 500mm, then 1000mm, 1500mm etc. Step can be changed in UV Tools Settings. Right Click: Substract size by step.
	Apply Flatten mapping with custom settings. Shift+Click: Flatten By Material ID. Ctrl+Click: Flatten By Smooth Group. Right Click: Open Flatten mapping settings. Resize: Resize UV after mapping. UV Size spinner value will be used.
	Apply Normal mapping with custom settings. Default mapping mode is Box. Right Click: Open Normal mapping settings. Resize: Resize UV after mapping.
	Apply Planar mapping in UV size. Mapping will be aligned to surface similar to UVW Map Normal Align. Shift+Click: Use world coorditates instead of local. Ctrl+Click: Apply Planar mapping for each UV element individually. All UV seams will be intact. Right Click: Open Planar mapping settings. Weighted normals: Use weighted normals calculation. Large polygons affect normal direction more than small polygons. Element centers: Use geometry element centers as UV elements center. Ignore object scale: Make planar gizmo size independent of object scale.
	Apply Quick Peel mapping. Ctrl+Click: Reset before Peel. Right Click: Open Peel mapping settings. Resize: Resize UV after mapping.
	Pick UV size from object and rescale mapping. UV size is taken from picked polygon, and not from whole object. Shift+Click: Scale selected UV to chosen bitmap aspect ratio (proportions). Ctrl+Click: Scale By element. Right Click: Get selected faces UV size.
	Scale to UV size. Shift+Click: Scale from point. Ctrl+Click: Scale By element. Right Click: Setup scale point. Point that UV will be scaled from.
	Normalize elements. Make texel density of elements the same. Shift+Click: Normalize by maximum. Ctrl+Click: Normalize by minimum.
	Make elements height the same. Shift+Click: Match by maximum. Ctrl+Click: Match by minimum. Right Click: Match but ignore aspect ratio.
	Make elements width the same. Shift+Click: Match by maximum. Ctrl+Click: Match by minimum. Right Click: Match but ignore aspect ratio.
	Fit elements to texture tile. Fit padding can be changed in UV Tools settings. Shift+Click: Fit ignoring aspect ratio. Ctrl+Click: Fit by element. Right Click: Fill mode. Fit to minimal side.
	Center elements to texture tile. Ctrl+Click: Center by element.
	Relax Unwrap selection. If edges are selected then perform Relax By Edge Angles. Otherwise perform Relax By Polygon Angle. Ctrl+Click: Relax whole UV elements. Grow selection to elements before relax. Shift+Click: Run Unwrap "Relax until flat". Right Click: Open Relax settings.
	Rotate UV +90°. If Invert Rotate in Settings is enabled then UV will be rotated to -90 degrees (texture in viewport will rotate to +90 degrees). Shift+Click: Rotate UV 180°. Ctrl+Click: Rotate by element.
	Rotate UV -90°. If Invert Rotate in Settings is enabled then UV will be rotated to +90 degrees (texture in viewport will rotate to -90 degrees). Shift+Click: Rotate UV 180°. Ctrl+Click: Rotate by element.
	Flip Horizontally. Shift+Left Click: Flip to Left. Use left border as mirror axis. Shift+Right Click: Flip to Right. Use right border as mirror axis. Ctrl+Click: Flip by element.
	Flip Vertically. Shift+Left Click: Flip Up. Use top border as mirror axis. Shift+Right Click: Flip Down. Use bottom border as mirror axis. Ctrl+Click: Flip by element.
	Orient elements horizontally to fit minimum bounding box. Shift+Click: Orient vertically.
	Rotate multiple elements by selected edges with automatic orientation. If edge is more horizontal than vertical, then element will be aligned horizontally. If no edges or vertices are selected then elements will be aligned by their longest open edges. Shift+Click: Force rotate to Vertical. Ctrl+Click: Force rotate to Horizontal.
	Perform Unwrap Align Horizontally in Place. Shift+Click: Loop + Align. Ctrl+Click: Ring + Align.
	Perform Unwrap Align Vertically in Place. Shift+Click: Loop + Align. Ctrl+Click: Ring + Align.
	Collapse selected UV vertices by distance between them. Vertices just moved to one position without actual welding. Right Click: Get maximum distance between selected vertices and put value to Distance Threshold spinner.

	Pack inside texture Tile. Right Click: Pack Setup. Type: Linear, Recursive or Non-Convex pack method. Spacing: Space between elements. Rescale: Normalize elements. Make texel density of elements the same. Fill Holes: Fill holes with smaller elements.
	Pack Together (without scaling UV to texture Tile). Right Click: Pack Setup. Same as Pack in Tile.
	Distribute elements evenly between min and max from selected. Ctrl+Click: Distribute with align.
	Sort elements Horizontally by Height. Right Click: Sort in reverse order.
	Sort elements Vertically by Width. Right Click: Sort in reverse order.
	Align elements or vertices/edges selection.
To Border	Align to texture tile border.
As Group	Align selection as one Group to texture tile border.
Select	Select similar uv elements. Selection based on element topology and geometry area. Value in Similar spinner is geometry area similarity. 1.0 means exactly the same area, 0.0 means that area will be ignored. Multiple selection is allowed.
Stack	Stack similar uv elements. Move all similar elements to one position. Rotation and Scale remain the same. Shift+Click: Stack outside tile. Secondary elements will be moved to next texture tile (+1 by U axis) to prevent overlap with main elements. Usable for texture baking of stacked elements. Ctrl+Click: Stack and Group elements. Unwrap Groups are used here. Each group could be Packed as one element. Right Click: Ungroup selected elements.

U	Move Right (U +1). Right Click: Move Left (U -1).
V	Move Top (V +1). Right Click: Move Bottom (V -1).
MOVE	Offset mapping by U or V axis. Shift+Drag: Swap axis.
SCALE	Scale mapping by U or V axis. Shift+Drag: Swap axis.
ROTATE	Rotate mapping.
Uniform	Uniform scale switch. If enabled then scale.
ACCURACY	Offset accuracy multiplier. Offset value will be multiplied by this factor. Auto mode works well in most cases.
Invert	Invert transform direction. On: For viewport. Off: For UV editor.
Zero	Enable Scale and Rotate from zero point (0,0 uv coordinates). On: Scale and Rotate from zero point. Off: Scale and Rotate from center.

U V	Enable/Disable randomize by U and V axis.
Geo Elements	Randomize by geometry elements instead of mapping elements.
Keep in Tile	Keep elements in texture tile. UV will be scaled to fit texture. This option helps to avoid seams when using non-seamless textures.
Offset	Randomize UV position.
Rotate	Randomize UV rotation.
Scale	Randomize UV scale.
Step	Use absolute values instead of random value from range. For example: Rotate value is 90. Regular randomizer will rotate elements by random values between -90 and +90 (-53, 47, 13, etc.). Step randomizer will use only -90 or +90 values only.
Select %	Select random elements in percents of current selection.
Shuffle U	Shuffle elements in multiple stacks Horizontally in random order. Number of stacks controlled by spinner value. Each stack will contain the same number of elements if possible.
Shuffle V	Shuffle elements in multiple stacks Vertically in random order.

UV Morpher	Create new flat object with Morpher Modifier that represents object UV mapping. Shift+Click: Repack before creating flat object.
Show	Switch display Morpher objects as box.
	Morpher value.
Skin Wrap	Add Skin Wrap modifiers to selected objects with nearest morpher in list. Shift+Click: Add disabled Skin Wrap modifiers. Ctrl+Click: Pick Morpher object manually.
Cut	Boolean cut selected objects to Morpher borders. Ctrl+Click: Pick cut object manually.
UV Smooth	Add Edit Poly modifier and create Smooth Groups by mapping elements. Ctrl+Click: Create Smooth Groups in Editable Poly baseobject.
Hide/Unhide	Hide selected elements. Only for EditablePoly. Ctrl+Click: Hide selected polygons. Righ Click: Unhide all polygons.
Transfer	Transfer subobject selection between Unwrap and EditablePoly. Selection will be sent to nearest valid modifier. If no valid modifiers are found, then new modifier will be added automatically. Check "Geometry Tools" video. Shift+Click: Search valid modifiers only above current modifier. Send selection Up the stack. Ctrl+Click: Search valid modifiers only below current modifier. Send selection Down the stack. Alt+Click: Don't search and send selection to new modifier. Can be combined with Shift/Ctrl. Righ Click: Open Transfer Selection dialog. Current modifier is marked by <<<. You can send selection to modifiers that marked by >>>. If current modifier is Unwrap, then you can send selection to Edit Poly and Editable Poly and vice versa. Create new modifier: Send selection to new modifier. Modifier will be added above selected item in list. Keep current selection: Transfered selection will be added to current selection.
UV <-> Poly	Create new object that represents object UV mapping on current Map Channel. Non-destructive Channel Info method is used here. All UV channels remain unaffected. This flat object could be used to deform it with Editable Poly tools and then send back to UV (read next). Ctrl+Click: Pick Poly object and use its geometry as UV mapping for selected object.

Size	Textures size.
V	Enable V size.
Size to Tiling	Set tiling in selected textures based on entered size and Unwrap selection. Textures should be selected in Material Editor.
Rw to Tiling	Convert real-world mapping to regular. Real-World in object textures will be disabled and tilings/offsets will be setup in order to match previous real-world scale. UV will be scaled to fit texture Tile. Ctrl+Click: Scale UV to maximum real-world texture size.
Bitmap to UV	Transfer bitmap transformations to UV (tiling, offset, rotation). UV of each submaterial will be transformed individually based on first bitmap properties. All bitmaps on selected objects will reset their transformations, tiling will be set to 1:1, offset and rotation to 0.

Texture:	Texture width in pixels. Height is ignored. Currently only 1:1 square maps are supported.
2^	Increase resolution to closest power of 2 (64, 128, 256 etc.). Right Click: Decrease resolution to closest power of 2.
A	Auto mode. Get resolution from first map of each material. If checker material is assigned, then checker texture should be the first map.
Density:	Texel Density value.
Units	Texel Density units per pixel. First item in list (units) is current 3ds Max system units.
Select	Select elements by the same Texel Density. If some faces are selected then get density value from selection, else get entered values. Shift+Click: Select elements that have higher density. Ctrl+Click: Select elements that have lower density.
Get	Get Texel Density value and put it in the spinner. Ctrl+Click: Grow to elements before get density. Currently Real-world system works only in Auto mode.
Set	Set Texel Density value for selected elements.

Set

Move selected elements to UDIM by spinner value.

Right Click: Get current UDIM from selection.

Offset + -

Move selected elements to next UDIM.

Right Click: Move to previous UDIM.

Save Unwrap setup	Save current Unwrap modifier setup as Default. All options from modify panel will be saved and used for new Unwrap modifiers that you create by pressing Add button.
Collapse to Poly	Convert objects to EditablePoly after collapse modifiers.
Restore Map Channel 1	Restore Map Channel 1 if Channel is not found in current modifier.
Rename Unwrap mod	Rename Unwrap modifier to "Unwrap UV Tools".
Use Unwrap Pro plugin	Add Unwrap Pro modifier instead of regular Unwrap. Available only if Unwrap Pro plugin in installed.

Main Tab Rollouts	Rollouts used in Main Tab. Others will be placed in Extra Tab.
Remember last tab	Activate last used tab on start.
Auto dialog height	Fit dialog height to opened rollouts.

Stop after closing UI	Stop Tweaker after closing UV Tools main dialog.
Display info	Display tweak values in viewport.
Select Unwrap Group	Tweak all elements in Unwrap Group simultaneously.
Ctrl + Drag angle	Tweak Ctrl+Drag rotate angle.
Alt + Click angle	Tweak Alt+Click rotate angle.

Zoom Extents Selected

Auto zoom extents selected after Open UV Editor.

Invert Rotate	Invert Rotate by 90 degrees function. On - for Viewport, Off - for UV Editor.
Size + - step	UV size + - step.
Fit Spacing	UV padding used in Fit function.
Zero W position	Reset W position when calculating uv area.
Ignore object scale	Ignore object scale when calculating geometry area.

Checker Smart size	Guess checker size and real-world state from object textures. Maximum size will be used as checker size.
Open checkers folder	Open checkers folder in the Explorer.
Active Checkers	List of enabled Checker textures. You can disable unnecessary textures by deselecting them.

DLX status	UV Tools has C++ dlx extension that accelerate most functions. The script is fully functional without this extension, but it will run slower while dealing with thousands of UV elements. Dlx extension should load on 3dsMax startup and can't be unloaded while 3dsMax is running. This means, that if you updated UV Tools that contain new version of dlx accelerator, then previous dlx file will be disabled till next 3dsMax start since it can't be unloaded and replaced with new one. On the next 3dsMax startup old dlx file will be deleted and new dlx file will be loaded. DLX status field shows the current state of dlx accelerator: active: Dlx is loaded and used. waiting for restart: Old dlx was disabled and new one is waiting for 3dsMax restart. version mismatch: The script version doesn't match dlx version for some reason. Reinstall the script. disabled: Dlx is loaded but disabled. not loaded: Dlx is not loaded for some reason. Presumably dlx accelerator is not compiled for your 3dsMax version at the moment.
Enable DLX Accelerator	Disable loaded dlx extension. Many UV Tools operations will run slower. For debug purposes.
DLX warning	Display warning message on the top of UV Tools UI when dlx status is not active.
Open script folder	Open UV Tools script folder in the Explorer.

Video

Due to constant script updates some of the functions shown in these videos can work different in the latest script version. Check Help section to find more actual information.