Revision as of 13:57, 7 February 2011

Texture Coordinates

Texture coordinates, also called UVs, are pairs of numbers stored in the vertices of a mesh, and often used to stretch a 2D texture onto a 3D mesh.

UV Tutorials

• How to plan good UVs is in the UV Theory thread on the Polycount forum.
• Good methods for UVing spheres can be found in the Unwrapping a sphere thread on the Polycount forum. For sphere modeling tips see Sphere Topology.
• A good weapon UV can be found in the tutorial First-Person Weapon UVs by Joe 'EarthQuake' Wilson
• A good character UV example can be found in the tutorial Maya / Mudbox: Street Cop Workflow by Mashru Mishu.
• How to prevent 3ds Max subdivision from distorting UVs is in the uv + turbosmooth= big problem thread on the Polycount forum. A similar thread: Best way to approach unwrapping UVWs with Meshsmooth?
• For an automated UV projection system, see 3D UV projection network in Maya by Paul 'prolow' Lohman
• What's an 8-sided tiled texture ? thread on the Polycount forum discusses how to edit textures so you can rotate and mirror them on adjacent polygons, without seams.
• See also Light Map Texture Coordinates

UV Tools

3ds Max

• TexTools
• Texture Atlas Generator
• turboTools
• Normalize UVs Maxscipt
• LCSM Unwrap
• 3ds Max Bridge to Headus UV Layout
• 3ds Max Bridge to Roadkill
• morphMap

Maya

• Maya Bridge to Headus UV Layout
• Texturing Scripts on CreativeCrash.com
• Castor Lee's Auto UV Mapper