there's a faster way, when you unfold your mesh, you can select a central edge that cross the object and click in "Straighten Shell" and them select all the shell and click "Straighten UV"
Cool method! BUT No need to cut this little uv shell. Just deselect edges of uv-cuts in 3d viewport at 2-55 step and do all the same steps as shown. It will work even with full torus
Hello! I hope you are good. At the time of performing the third method, specifically, when I press Unfold along V the UV continues to be stericized, it does not straighten. Do I have to configure the Unfold so that they are aligned to me?
Did you try with a not so even distributed edgeloops in the V direction? In such case, that doesn't work like when the edgeloops are evenly distributed.
this is insanely time expensive, i'm sure there must be an script out there doing the same thing, there's no way to spend that much time on straightening a single tool
Ikr! All of these tutorials are just not worth it, sometimes you have to work with a lot of objects and if you do this to every fucking uv you have you are D E A D
You can always try to change the straighten UV angle from 0 to 30 or 45 and it gives you nice straight UVs or you can just select the vertices from the second method snap the pivot along the edge and scale the non aligned vertices to make a perfect rectangular straight UV
I often use this method in Maya as well. However, when I check the UV Distortion option, it tends to look quite messy. Maybe I'm relying on it too much, but should the distortion it shows be a concern?
Depends, plenty of clients and or lead artists I have worked with, do not like when they see the UVs distorted and will ask you to fix it. But now in terms why it might be a problem. If you are going to bake it, and has enough resolution, then you might get away with it. But if it has lower resolution you might actually see the pixels stretch and it looks bad. If you paint straight lines, it might look bad because the line might get thinner in the areas with more resolution. If you add a distinguishable pattern, you might see it become smaller where there is more density and it might even distort. But if you do not have any of that, you might get away with it, and there are ways to fix some of the problems. Such as duplicating the model, completely relaxing the UVs, putting the pattern, and then baking it. But of course, having to fix those problems is extra work, and it might be better to fix the UVs before texturing.
Hey tutorial-maker guy! I reeeaaaaally appreciate those like yourself going out of your way to make vids like this. But we are a little bit confused! Why does this process work? From about 2:40 onwards - the process seems to be a series of random functions which give the desired result? Could you please explain the steps again? And why they work?
I run into this issue where this method works fine, but eventually the UV shells get all messed up and crumpled as I continue working in my scene. Any thoughts? I'm using Maya 2022, but I saw this issue on Maya 2019 and Maya 2020 too. I am deleting history on the UV shells after I finish them, but it doesn't fix the crumpling.
Honestly i'd rather just stick with the second or first method considering how much time the third one takes in whatever situation... even if the uv's are messy at the end.
As long as your textures look fine super clean uv layouts don't matter that much. The first unfold looks so close to your end result when you showed the checker map, but hey it looks super clean.
it's not abou how the uvs are going to look. Sometimes you have a pattern that needs to be repeating a long the surface in a seamless way, or a texture with apparant straight lines. If you dont have even UVs they are going to look wrong. Even though the first uv as you said would be the most realistic and how unwrapping would be in real life.
I am sorry but this is not correct. Your uv checker map on third object is not evenly distributed and as a resoult you will have streached texture. This is very bad tutorial. Only amatours gave you hand up :-)
Maya is incredibly dumb, I saw blender user do their uv in 1 to 2 click, thanks for the video, it is intriguing but for real I suggest using blender, I have not jump ship yet but I might as well learn it