Texture Coordinates

Texture Coordinates

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

UV Tutorials

• Organic rock UV seams Polycount forum thread, how to create good UVs for spheroids.
• UV Theory Polycount forum thread, how to plan good UVs.
• As it turns out, we all suck at unwrapping? Polycount forum thread.
• Unwrapping a sphere Polycount forum thread, good methods for UVing spheres. For sphere modeling tips see Sphere Topology.
• First-Person Weapon UVs by Joe 'EarthQuake' Wilson, good weapon UVs.
• Maya / Mudbox: Street Cop Workflow by Mashru Mishu, good character UVs.
• uv + turbosmooth= big problem Polycount forum thread, how to prevent 3ds Max subdivision from distorting UVs. A similar thread: Best way to approach unwrapping UVWs with Meshsmooth?
• What's an 8-sided tiled texture ? Polycount forum thread, how to edit textures so you can rotate and mirror them on adjacent polygons without seams.
• See also Light Map Texture Coordinates

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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

Softimage / XSI

• Softimage Bridge to Headus UV Layout
• Texturing Scripts on CreativeCrash.com
• Softimage Bridge to Roadkill

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