headus 3D tools

[Dodger]

Just out of curiosity... is there any ETA on when UVL will keep groups and materials intact?

One of the only drawbacks is this discarding of materials and groups (and the inability to do things using them as 'filters').

While I can always write a perlscript to apply the UVWs thus laid-out to a fully grouped and materialed mesh, most people are going to have to revert to using something else to import UVWs onto their grouped-and-materialed object (that or, as I often do, make the basic mesh and map it *before* any materials and groups are set).

In most cases this is going to mean they're using UVMapper also (to export-and-then-import UVs). Which seems kinda redundant.

[headus]

[Dodger]

[Xena]

I don't use UVMapper at all, just the update function instead of save. Obj imports back into both Poser and Silo without issue AND it leaves my original obj intact in case I need it in the future.

[headus]

Yes, there's no need to worry, the Update button won't overwrite your original OBJ. It makes
a copy with a new name ... for example, fish.obj will be "updated" to fish-uvlayout.obj.

Phil

[esha]

Hurray! That comes in handy.
I've just had to rework a mesh that was already grouped, I would hate to lose all the groups.

Thanks for this useful thread