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[Littlefox]

Couple of odd requests, just starting out so mistakes are easy....
An unselect all for welding selections....I accidentally selected the entire edge of the weld section and couldn't find any way to unselect short of BSing every last one of em or reloading.... Though I may have missed the how to do this

Rescale..... Accidentally scaled a piece down in size after I had it just like I wanted it, now I need to join it to another piece and they aren't exactly the same sizeso things are being a might wonky.... Also one that I may have missed in the keys

Had a small odd glitch show up but I can't seem to repeat it... was welding two edges and my guess is I missed one of the joining lines because when I welded, one of the polys was twisted into a figure 8 and I couldn't for the life of me get it to turn loose and rejoin correctly. If I get ot to do it again I'll post it.

[headus]

You can use Shift-W to unselect as well as select; just aim the mouse pointer
at the red weld edges and type Shift-W to unselect all connected weld edhes.

If you accidentally scale a piece, just scale it back up again :-) Thats Space-RMB
or Space-LMB+MMB.

And finally, yes, if you miss a weld edge in the middle sometimes that can really
mess things up. Thats why the 'w' at each end and Shift-W in the middle is currently
more reliable than running the 'w' key all over the edge. If you do get one of these
odd internal seams, you can sometimes fix them by cutting back in from the boundary
with 'c', then weld back out again with 'w'.

Phil

[Littlefox]

Ah ! Ya see I knew I was missing something Thank you! Was having the devil of a time reproducing the Shift W unselect by accident ;P

[swfree]

im not sure if this belongs here.

i double click the exe, and nothing happens. uvlayout shows up in the task manager with 3448k memory usage and 0% cpu time. i cant even alt tab to it.

im running windows xp sp2
mobo with via chipset
amd xp 2400+
1024 mb ram
ati 9600 agp 256mb ram

DX 9.0c
newest gfx card drivers

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[swfree]

yes, the exe of the installed programm. the one in the start menu does nothing, and i have no desktop icon.

[Littlefox]

Went on a marathon UV session last week and came up with a couple of things for the wish list, though don't know if anyone's mentioned them....

Some way to exactly rotate a part piece.. Trying to eyeball a 45, 90 or a 180 is just evil! Especially when you're trying to preserve symmetry and a straight center line

Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical of shells...

Multiple Shell sellection for flattening & optomizing.... Leastwise till Symmetry is up and running..... Optomizing works great but unfortunately it runs on everything thats in the UV space thats been flattened and when you've got 2/3rds of the mapping done and you're only trying to get the two arms identically smooth without messing with all the rest of your work.... eeeeeeee!!! f one, f the other, f one, f the other..... if you f space, you can only pray they'll turn out even ;P

Those said, Lordy, I love this program! The moment you get symmetry running I'm going to uninstall DeepUV as a pointless waste of space!

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[SMcQ]

Phil,

I didn't see on your wish list the ability to show a background image. It would be extremely useful to be able to fit UVs to certain textures. Even without optimal flattening, the color shading would allow assessment of distortion tradeoffs.

SMcQ

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[Littlefox]

This may or may not have been covered in the wish list under the straighten idea but here goes....

I frequently do 'hair' via poly modeling and its a great thing to have it flatten out into a rectangle so you can reuse hair textures pretty quickly without having to mangle them into new shapes each time. Currently I have to UVMap a square or cylinder then shape it and live with however the bandsaw, beveling, etc and shaping will distort the map horribly while keeping it square, layering points on top of each other and all manner of weirdness. Outside of going point by point and translating (ICK) it's kinda hard to flatten it out once it's started doing that, and all relaxers currently out there either warp the shape or keep the edge intact and clean up the center.... it works but only if you don't ever see the roots ;P

So knowing this is there any way to make a setting that rectangularly optomizes... maybe selecting the top edge and the bottom edge and giving it a right good snap then straightening the 4 edges, pinning and flattening from there?


Thought I'd ask

[twocust]

Howdy Phil,

Excellent job on the "webbing" tool...I'm finding it to be most useful.

One slight request/enhancement would be if it were possible to uniformly shrink
the size of the webbing polygons so that neighboring polys (in the eye, for instance)
could get a little more real estate. As I say, tho...pretty slight.

I'm starting to feel kinda jealous of those beta users that still haven't "early adopted"
and ponied up for this awesome piece of software...they are getting a damn good
deal of functionality.

Kind regards,

twocust

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