Yo guys, in this video on @RenderRam channel, I'm gonna be showing a neat little hack on how you can easily transfer your Editable Poly edge selection to Seams in Unwrap, and do a much quicker Unwrapping than usual, hope you enjoy!
Thanks a lot for this great tip. At first it did not work pressing "reset peel".in max2023 I had to go into the "edit uvws" window and there at there at peel I had to change from unfold3d to lscm(legacy) . Then do the reset peel again.
Great! Being doing this method for some time.. although in unwrap.. there is edge selection and convert to seam. This helps when using pelt mapping etc.. or interactive unwrapping. One thing that helps in selecting edges, to select hard edges from ribbon menu, convert selection to poly, hide unselected and chech if we get all the edges needed.. most of the time it works for soft furniture like sofas etc..
Nice tutorial, I never thought about doing the split out of the unwrap and since the selection for unwrap is not up to date (or as good as it is in Edit Poly/Editable Poly ) sounds like a good hack. I think the only advantage in terms of selection directly on the unwrap is the Symmetric selection. One thing that can make your life easier for the align is the "Align to Edge" button. You select one edge and it will align the island to a 90° angle
Yeah I was gonna mention rotating UVs can be fast too! I like to use the free plugin TexTools for Max, it has a quick align button and you can hotkey it :) Do you have any tips about symmetric selection for unwapping? I haven't tried that yet
Hmmmmmm why not just use the seam tool in the unwrap uvw modifier, does the same thing with out all that messing about and its even faster and none destructive
Very cool. Autodesk needs to have an independent uv window like blender rather than requiring a modifier every time you want to adjust or even just SEE your uv clusters
Well, when I split edges, they actually unweld, but that pretty much it. The object is still considered a single element. What I have to do is detach the islands into different elements.
omg this is so good i was really afriad to mark seems and it was really messy at some time to stich unwanted seems and sometime it just wont work ...but this is perfect, kinda lazy but not really ...i mean it works so why not and i dont mean lazy as in lazy uk i mean quick and efficent also the studios wont even bat an eye at this so its really good thanks
Man that is an excellent tip, I can't believe I never thought of it! Thanks My issue is whenever I shell a model and choose strip for the edge it never seems scale correctly when I unwrap. You think you can just scale it horizontally but the polys are spaced differently from the model, so you have parts that are stretched while others are squeezed, bugs the life out of me. Peel doesn't usually help due to needing to maintain straight line.
@@RenderRam in the shell modifier you have edge mapping options. I do my UVs before shelling but sometimes I need to target the edges, like on a plywood chair to get the wood grain or perforation on a box, so I choose ‘strip’ but when unwrapped the proportions get messed up which means I have to manually adjust, it’s a minor thing but a pain nonetheless.
@@moss3d_uk If you go to 4:56 in the video, there I'm showing Pack Normalize feature that rescales all islands correctly depending on their size. But I've tried to see how UV looks after adding Shell and Strip, and indeed that "wood grain" part of UV island had an incorrect stretch... however doing Unwraping hack method from that point AGAIN did fix the issue... So I tried with relaxing methods, results vary between shapes, again there's a manual approach which you try to avoid. In general it's kinda hard to guess what the best solution is since I don't know how your final unwrap looks. If you want, you can send screenshots to renderram.cgi@gmail.com. But the thing that worked instantly was UnwrapPro plugin, where i just selected that wood grain UV island, clicked on Unwrap button inside of that plugin and it was nicely stretched and fixed. Unfortunately UnwrapPro is a bit pricey.
That's gold, and i despise unwrapping, but Unreal it's so picky about that i have to deal with. But out of curiosity, if i skip the manual rotation and jump straight to the autopack island, does align them or i'll end with perfectly packed with wrong map rotation islands?
Hy in 3Ds Max 2023 there are problems with uvw unwrap there options are not working properly objects not getting properly relax they have added (unfold3D) it is way too much confusing they removed start relax option if you have figure it out plz. make a pacific tutorial on 3Ds Max 2023 Unwrap UVW
Your tuts is a real honey !!!! I love you ! But one question ! You have many hairs why cut them ??? Héhéhéé i want them ! SO real question ! Why we need to align numbers UVs on part of chair ? What's happened if they doesn't aligned ? Thank you !!
Thank you! It’s all about organization and making sure the texture will be correctly displayed, for example if you have a texture that has some directional lighting, and if you don’t align/rotate uv islands, on some parts they will be normaly displayed and on some flipped. Also normal maps are sensitive to these orientations also, so it’s good to have a habbit of keeping things organized.
@@RenderRam Thank you very much I like to watch several technicians to make sure to learn everything and that I had missed it and a lot of people don't.... Thank you very much ! You are a good technican !
Too many steps. :) The tool you need is already inside UnwrapUVW, is called BREAK and does the same thing that you are doing with the split operation. You select the seams, do the Break and do the QuickPeel, and you got your islands. You can do the selection inside the UVEditor panel or in the viewports while the editor is active. Also, the loop selector inside de UVEditor only selects inside the islands, and that helps a lot. It has improved a lot in the last few years, i really like the new peel algorithm "unfold". Heck, i liked it a lot, when Unfold3d Magic was an external software, and i'm very happy to have it inside 3dmax at last.
Oh yes Unfold is super nice! About the Break operation, the whole point of this little trick is to move a direct edit poly selection to Unwrap. To use Break you need to recreate whole selection inside of Unwrap again which this little hack is avoiding :)
Ako uzmem u obzir da ti objekt nema nekih rupa i slicnih deformacija, generalno selektiraj otprilike gdje seamovi moraju ic i kreni tako. Ako u maxu klikneš slovo X, otvorit ce se mali prozor, i tamo upiši Point to Point Selection, s time mozes ugrubo selektirati određene sekcije objekta, pa to možda pomogne.
Hi ! Idk why, but it doesnt work for me :( I looked closely if I did any mistakes but its not the case : when I click on "reset peel", it doesnt reset it. I'm on 3ds max 2023 and idk why it doesnt work at all :(
Why do you split the mesh before unwrapping? You can do it the same in UnwrapUV modifier - just choosing edges and converting them to seams xD Splitting the mesh is totally unnecessary
