headus 3D tools

yeah that works great if you have a seperate shell that has room to expand, but say you have something in the middle, (like in the kangaroo ear tutorial) cut it out scale up, localise, weld back and r ...

A cool feature would be:

Before you drop / flatten to paint in 3d view the stuff that is important to you, the stuff that should be more towards the blueish spectrum and the rest can go automatical ...

yes, that does come quite close, thanks!

for anybody else who is reading:
you need to pin the stuff you dont want to move
and then do what phil said in the previous post with local flatten (B key ...

Here is a simple example:
As seen in the last picture the goal is to get the distortion to propagate into infinity and yet trying to give each polygon maximum surface coverage for the baking preferab ...

there are cases where you do not care about streching or the like since the texture map / lighting is going to be generated by your software (baked)

so all you want is the entire map to be spread ...