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[particle808]

OK,

So I have watched the videos. I have imported an OBJ from Maya, cut it, flattened the pieces, saved it as a tiff, painted a texture in photoshop, opened that in UVLayouts as my background under my flattened pieces.

Now How do I get that back into Maya?

[particle808]

OK

I actually imported the OBJ from UVLayouts into Maya, and from there I could see the cut up pieces in the texture editor in Maya. I made a material, input a file to my color and that seems to work.

HOWEVER, the object I imported back into maya has the Polygons all flatened with super sharp edges. What do I do about that?

[headus]

The normal "Save" strips out all materials and shading/smoothing groups, so use the "Update" button instead. You select the original OBJ file that you loaded, and UVLayout creates a copy of that with just the UVs changed.

Phil

[particle808]

I just dont understand. I really want this to work though. I tried loading the original OBJ and I clicked update and now I see nothing in the UV View

[particle808]

OK OK,

I GOT IT!!!

Awesome!!!!

This tool ROCKS

[headus]

"I GOT IT!!! "

Excellent! I admit that the Save vs Update thing is a little confusing ... I hope to fix that someday.

Phil