Top Tips for Improving Your UVs in Maya 

Guys. I can't stress enough how much you've helped me throughout my carrier and life. I've been following you since I started 3D back in 2015 I think and I watch all of your videos to this day. I'm actually find myself rewatching a lot of your stuff on background while I'm working cause sometimes your videos are like really pleasant podcasts with people I really like and TONS of information. This is not the first time I express my gratitude like this, but if this somehow helps or inspires you to create more, I can go on and on for days. Once again, you guys are lifesavers.

I've been modeling for 5 years now. Every damn time I watch one of your videos, I learn something I didn't know. Thank you so much for your amazing work!

This is by far the best channel, somehow you make all the right videos i need to see.

Been using Maya since the 2015 version and wow they have improved their UV tools! It is just so much easier to work with than the earlier versions.

I never knew about that cut tool, I’ve always cut my UVs by highlighting edges!!! How have I never seen that?! All the features in this video is stuff I wish I knew years ago, massive thanks for making my job that little bit easier as always

Thanks so much! I knew about straighten uv but didn't realise what straighten shell did. I always fought with the uvs to straighten them properly.. Thanks again

I graduated with a Bachelors in Illustration from Ringling College of Art & Design in 2012 and have been trying to bridge the gap into 3D modeling and texturing (hopefully for gaming. Got my hands on a cheap full version of Maya 2013 back in that year as well as the ZBrush version of that time and took a stab at UV editing...nightmare. Enter 2018: ZBrush 2018 and month-to-month subscription to MayaLT and OMG, workflow of modeling in Zbrush > retop to obj > Maya UV > > save out obj with UVs attached back into ZBrush > paint UV snapshot in Photoshop and apply texture back into ZBrush and VOILA!....and thanks in part to you guys, this week, I completed my first hi rez Zbrush character model with hi rez detailing and tatoos. Amazing: Maya has done a 180 degree turn since 2013 in the UV editing department. Thanks again!

As usual, great work. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome video, accidentally found it right as I happened to be creating a UV layout. I ended up with a quick and clean layout as a result!

This channel is very special in youtube ,very good information and i love this 2 guy is taking .it is nice that your friend work in the same filed

Great Stuff, didn't realise UV Layout had improved so much in Maya. Great example, expertly told.

Thank you so much. I'm participating in the artstation challenge and was dreading the UVing but those tools make the process so much easier

Gosh, i would love to come work with you guys...that automatic cut tool is amazing. Been using Maya since 2007 and this has been my most challenging task...

Thank you for the helpful advice on this.

Another great video.. Thanks alot.. I am still using the Maya 2015 techniques lol - up until now

Thanks for this one, these videos are really becoming top notch

The best tutorial!!!! Thanks

Very helpful and good tips, will use, thanks!

Amazing tips, thanks guys!

2021 - still crazy useful!

Cool! Reminds me of Blender's uv tools which are actually very good and fast. At least now I know if I ever have to use Maya at a job or studio, I can rely on some decent uv tools. Thanks!

Yes! Do more about UVs please!

I think straighten shell just saved my UV hell! Great tips guys!

Very helpful!! Thanks!

switched to maya the past days after 10 months in max learning... Maya ftw :'D

Hi from Brazil. It's is amazing to follow your videos, tips and materials!!! Tk you very much!!!

You guys are awesome!! I learn so much!

Cool tricks, never notice them before. Thanks guys.

Thank you for this video. Been looking for a video that covers some of the UV tools in Maya as i had no clue how to use them properly at all since the update. I hope you are able to do a more detailed one and possibly supply some of the .obj to follow along with one time :). Thank you again for your amazing and helpful videos

wooow, really nice tips, i cant believe i didnt knew the last one, it could have saved me a lot of time jaja, thanks!!:)

Having come from the old Maya unwrapping days this is definitely better. I still prefer using 3D Coat's new UV unwrapping system these days though. Its so fast and easy I almost spend no time unwrapping my models anymore and it feels like cheating lol.

Wow! You all are amazing! If you all have or plan to make a video on uv mapping figures and full bodies would be extraordinarily fantastic!

I thought i knew my stuff but you guys keep making me realise im doing things wrong! Ty

Thank you so much

I think a UV layout fundamentals tutorial would be a good idea for a video. I always feel like I could improve my UVs some how, or that there is something that I'm doing that's not quite right, even though they get the job done.

Thanks for the tips)

Cool ... Thanks for sharing

Thank you very much

oh yeaaah! I remember all the rage while UVing in Maya at school. One of the main reasons I swapped to Max!

that stitching brush looks amazing! I usually use 3D-Coat for UVs and Blender for touch ups. Did you guys hear about 3D-Coat voxel sculpting, retopo and Uv mapping tools? it's widely used in the games industry as far as I know, and it's quite an impressive tool for what it does and its price tag :) There's this guy "Anton T" on youtube that has some nice tricks using 3d-coat for concept art, if anyone is interested. Any way, as an ex-Maya user (haha) it's nice to see they've finally implemented nightshade in there, god their UV tools were so poor :P

You guys are awesome

Nice - thank you

thank you soooo much

thanksssss guys i wish i saw this before

Very cool tips, wondering if is any default tool in Maya to straight a UV Shell that been previously rotated? Like select 2 UVs and Align vertically or horizontally the whole UV Shell. Thanks

Thought you would touch on the 3D cut and sew UV tool added to Maya 2018. Thanks for showing me where the straighten unfold was. That one will really help.

is there a way to keep mirrored shells together in maya when you use the layout tool?

Awesome sauce

Thanks!

Thanks for the great Tutorials i think your tutorials are becoming really polished lately! Maybe you should update the UDIM and Mari tutorials to be more in depth because i found them really general and shallow but anyways great tutorials! keep it coming

Hey , FlippedNormals.. does the uv edtior > Transform > Map Size which the default is 512 ... affect the texture? when i import a 4k texture from substance painter to Maya

Great Video! I know you guys usually work in Maya, but it would be awesome to see this type of video for 3ds Max's UV Tools.

I have model and I want to uv's that model but don't know where to start UV . so any video for this????????

Cut tool and Sew tool was cool...:)

NICE!!!

This is probably your best video guys hahaha

How do you use UV Sets of Maya 2018 in Arnold Shader?

How do I execute UV layout command WITHOUT unstacking my stacked UVs? I would like to to only use Maya for both modeling and unwrapping, but I fail to see why I would not just use 3D Coat.

instant like!

how did you cut the shirt up??? when I cut something up I made from marvelous designer it unfolds in alot of pieces and it does not look like what you here in the video

Thank you for all the great content

uvlayout was made in 90's.... 1890! lel

As someone that's been using uv layout for like 6+ years this is great. I still prefer uv layouts visual representation of everything though. Also I always did the majority of my cutting in 3d view is that an option in maya 2018? I'm still using 2016 because 2017 was POS

is there a way to get access to this awesome looking shirt model? :)

You mention a "scale cube", what is how can I use that?

Does 3D max have similar tools/features?

Maya 2018 killed any 3rd party uv software for me. Not bad for me though.

How would you compare the Maya 2018 UV workflow compared to 3D Coat? Great vid btw!

Big question. You guys work a lot in film, is unwrapping a something you usually do to your models? I ask this because my old 3d modelling profesor use to say "I do 3d work for motion graphics so I do not have to worry about unwrapping, that is only for games"

My teacher showed us to UV by using projection planes. For everything. I wish I had had a decent teacher, then maybe I'd actually consider using Maya.

What are your thoughts on Unfold3D/RizomUV?

How I create UV sets ?

I have a 2k map size and work in m for Maya to Unity. The models are large so the texel density is small. Any ideas as ideally I want a texel/px ratio of 5.12 but with buildings/houses it's not possible - thanks

What's so bad about non manifold geometry?

Maya's organic unfolding is still bad, was hoping for some tips on how to better relax those kinds of objects.

What counts as non-manifold geometry... Poles, N-gons, Floating Vertices, Normals not conformed, etc. ?

Could you guy possibly do a video about UV mapping again but instead of the tools talk more about how you go through the unwrap process, like where you decide to make your cuts and how you decide the layout in grid?

How does Maya's updated UV compare to Rixom UV in your (or anyone reading this) opinion?

Omg the sew tool is fasttttt @_@

Hi everyone I was wondering if anybody could point me in the direction on some info about creating uvs and textures for 300dpi large format prints? Doesn't seem to be much around on the topic. Cheeers:)

I am not found this options on my Maya how can i do that??

Have you guys try the new Unfold3D VS 2018 ?

For some reason even the simplest of shells (two rows of quads with a slight curve) do not work with straighten shell 90% of the time in my experience. I usually have to literally drag polys around and basically straighten it myself 0_0

Ps: So sad for not having a Monday video u.u But I know the wait will with it ;)

Yey, slowly switching from Headus UV Layout to Maya 2017+ UV tools! Didn't know about Cut Open Ratio, was really annoying me before. Thanks for these great quick tips! Also, I've only watched this and haven't tried it out, but maybe you guys could do a rundown of it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z2QvajdFHes.html

Duuuude! I was an autodesk guy since 2014 and it was so awful UV tools it just make this relaxing process a pain. Now days is more a fun task to do (I guess) Im currently working with Blender and I need to say it. I fill both of them have super similar tools, not saying That ¨Blender add it first¨ but, I just want the persons to know that this Open source guys has pro tools too that maya took 4 years to buy ( or develop in the best cases) Just my humble opinion here without any intention to create conflict between autodesk and blender users

not super nice uvs are ok for rocks and trees? Those deserve better uvs than characters!!! common!, btw environment artist here ;)

Who is disliking this?

Max had better uving it was very easy

UV Mapping was terrible, Retopology was terrible. Jesus this software cost almost 4K and what you got is a half product, and total shit.