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24 September 2008 - Mac OS X version updated
PPC processors now supported
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UVAutoRatio ForumThis Maya plugin
automatically scales the UVs of polygon meshes to give a
consistent ratio
between surface area and UV area across several meshes
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Artists generally want a consistent UV to surface area ratio, otherwise one area of the model might get too much detail
and another might be too blurry. This is a
waste of texture space and also can be an eye-catching mistake.
Another area where it is useful to have UV's in the right scale is when you want to have a common texture, mapped
across many different objects (eg:
lightmap, shadowmap, ambient occlusion map etc). Traditionally artists
manually scale
the UV's until it looks about right. This is really
not a fun job, and can take some time if there are a lot of objects,
so we
automated the process! This automatic tool will give the artist the
best possible result, and if it
doesn't look 100% right, it still provides a very good base to start tweaking from.
(Note: the cylinder is the "target" mesh, the other objects adjust their UV's to have the same ratio it does)
This plugin is easy to use! The basic method is:
- Decide on your "target mesh", which is a mesh with the correct ratio of surface area to uv area.
- Select all the meshes that need their UVs scaled in proportion to their surface area.
- Select your "target mesh" so it is the last object in the selection.
- Run the command
- Blink
- Rejoice!
Or you can use the user interface which exposes all the options of the command in a compact manner:
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