Maya 2009 UV enhancements: Unwrapping a head

In this video we take a look at Maya 2009's UV enhancement features such as the Smooth UV tool to help unwrap the Uvs on a head

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Andrew
• Klein
• Maya
• 2009
• Uv
• unwrap
• Smooth
• UV
• tool
• Head
• model
• 3d
• modeling
• texturing

[probounderxxx]

does some1 know how u can customize the cursor just like this guy? I mean u can see a circle doing some waves around the cursor

[slorpthegillman]

hah, and here I wish i had turned it off :)

its an option on many screen recording programs like the one i use: iShowUHD for Mac. to my knowledge, there isn't a way to do it "live" in an OS

[vcspy]

nice!, you know if is possible (by a simple way) do mirror like silo in maya? watch?v=btqYGgcCugc 7:50 (without the bug, of course! \o/)

[slorpthegillman]

Edit-Duplicate Special or Mesh-Mirror will both do what you are looking for

[PoisonYoshi]

Wow, this is awesome! Kinda makes HeadusUV Layout obsolete though...

[slorpthegillman]

Yeah, I totally agree

[Csp499]

I have a question- when unwrapping, how does one import a new image into the UV texture editor, such as to swap out an existing one?

[oturista]

Thank you so much for this.

I recommend a mic for recording tutorials. The mouse clicks are specially distracting.

[freaqie]

hello i am using the tool as you said here and i love it.

however sometimes the tool seems to fail,

the tool removes any selected UV's

it seems to have something to do with mesh complexity,

but is there a specific thing you are aware off that makes it do this,

i have had it fail several times with no real mesh related problems

thanks in advance

[woodystrength]

i never even knew abut the lattus tool. sweet. that is cool how you can now watch it relax though. thanks man. did you model that head?

[itchycitizen]

still not impressed with maya unwrap, that would take me 2mins in bodypaint !