Blender Uv Tools
Magic uv provides uv tools of which blender lack.
Blender uv tools. Using blender for uv mapping you can get far by using smart uv unwrap together with the regular unwrap operation. Rotate the uv island 90 degrees and. Uses lscm least squares conformal mapping. This method gives a good 2d representation of a mesh.
The textools addon is an extensive set of tools in one addon for working with uv s and textures. Uv toolkit is a set of tools for fast and high quality creation of uvs for games and films in blender. Sync selected elements synchronize the selected vertices edges and faces between modes. The uv toolkit addon provides an extensive set of tools for working in uv s in blender.
Easy use of custom checker textures. V5 0 adds lots of newly features. This usually gives a less accurate uv mapping than angle based but works better for simpler. Change the location of the 3d cursor.
They can be selected in the tool setting in the tool panel in the 3d viewport. Check crossing udim border. Select uvs by painting on it. Pack uv extension align uv cursor.
Tool to adjust. Sharp edges from uv islands marks the uv islands boundaries with sharp edges and activates smooth shading. Remember that you don t need to unwrap your whole mesh at once. Aligns the uv island to the current uv edge selection.
Back in 2009 i released the original textools for 3dsmax. It has size tools uv layout tools uv selection tools and texture baking. Uv toolkit is a set of tools for fast and high quality creation of uvs for games and films in blender 2 8 2 9x. Tools for create overlapping uvs.
Select uvs by dragging a box. In edit mode use the u key for the unwrap menu and transformation and selection tools in the uv editor and 3d viewport supplement well. Uv toolkit 2 0 main features straighten uvs. The popular addon is developed by renderhjs and savmartin ported it over to blender 2 8.
Docs modeling meshes editing uv uv tools. In case you like the popular textools addon for manipulating uv then this addon is a real paradise. The list of feature is so big that i can only describe it briefly in this article. Check crossing udim border.
More features will be added in the future. I ll show you the video first but mind that there are handy pie menus in this addon as well. Uv toolkit 2 0 main features. Instead utilize different techniques on different parts.
Also i want to highlight that this addon works with blender 2 9 and that there is udim support. Blender uv toolkit overview uv sync. Tools for create overlapping uvs. Easy use of custom checker textures.
Toggle the uv sync mode with the given settings. Select uvs by drawing a lasso. Uv tools select. Blender has two ways of calculating the unwrapping.
This is my first blender addon and it is at an early development phase.