UV Tools 3.2j

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.

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 to minimal side. Fill mode.

Ctrl+Click: Fit by element.

Right Click: Fit but ignore aspect ratio.

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: Keep UV size. Restore previous UV size after relax. 

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.

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 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.

Move Right (U +1).

Right Click: Move Left (U -1).

Move Top (V +1).

Right Click: Move Bottom (V -1).

Offset mapping by U or V axis.

Shift+Drag: Swap axis.

Scale mapping by U or V axis.

Shift+Drag: Swap axis.

ROTATE

ACCURACY

Offset accuracy multiplier.

Offset value will be multiplied by this factor. Auto mode works well in most cases.

Invert transform direction.

On: For viewport.

Off: For UV editor.

Enable Scale and Rotate from zero point (0,0 uv coordinates).

On: Scale and Rotate from zero point.

Off: Scale and Rotate from center.

Keep elements in texture tile. UV will be scaled to fit texture.

This option helps to avoid seams when using non-seamless textures.

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.

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.

Create new flat object with Morpher Modifier that represents object UV mapping.

Shift+Click: Repack before creating flat object.

Switch display Morpher objects as box.

Morpher value.

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.

Boolean cut selected objects to Morpher borders.

Ctrl+Click: Pick cut object manually.

Add Edit Poly modifier and create Smooth Groups by mapping elements.

Ctrl+Click: Create Smooth Groups in Editable Poly baseobject.

Hide selected elements. Only for EditablePoly.

Ctrl+Click: Hide selected polygons.

Righ Click: Unhide all polygons.

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.

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

Set tiling in selected textures based on entered size and Unwrap selection.

Textures should be selected in Material Editor.

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.

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.

Increase resolution to closest power of 2 (64, 128, 256 etc.).

Right Click: Decrease resolution to closest power of 2.

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.

Texel Density units per pixel.

First item in list (units) is current 3ds Max system units.

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 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 Texel Density value for selected elements.

Convert objects to EditablePoly after collapse modifiers.

Restore Map Channel 1 if Channel is not found in current modifier.

Add Unwrap Pro modifier instead of regular Unwrap.

Available only if Unwrap Pro plugin in installed.

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.

Auto zoom extents selected after Open UV Editor.

UV padding used in Fit function.

Guess checker size and real-world state from object textures. Maximum size will be used as checker size.

Open checkers folder in the Explorer.

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 or contact me.

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.

Disable loaded dlx extension. Many UV Tools operations will run slower.

For debug purposes.

Display warning message on the top of UV Tools UI when dlx status is not active.

Open UV Tools script folder in the Explorer.