[Plugin] UV Toolkit

thomthom · 16 Aug 2009, 11:29

If you want to use it for rendering then you're better off creating a unique texture for it. V-Ray doesn't render skewed textures properly.

remon_v · 16 Aug 2009, 11:46

oke thnx

Gaieus · 10 Sept 2009, 06:36

I think this plugin deserves some further attention and care so I made a little tutorial how you can get the final arch texture nicely mapped on a single face (not a series of facets divided by interior edges).

See it here (and thanks Thom for this useful plugin again)

notareal · 10 Sept 2009, 15:28

Great tutorial Gaieus.

thomthom · 15 Oct 2009, 13:17

Made some internal adjustments after learning how to get UV data from distorted textures. Bumped out of beta.

@unknownuser said:

1.0.0 - 15.10.2009

* Merge with Mirror UV.

* Correct sampling of UV data. Distorted textures now works.

* Mirror material speed increase.

Gaieus · 15 Oct 2009, 22:37

Thanks - updated my plugin folder!

thomthom · 14 Nov 2009, 15:22

Did some experimenting today.
Came up with a method that would texture selected quad-faces using a curve as a quide.

At the moment it requires strips of quad-faces, and the guide has to be a welded curve. But before I release it I want to make it so it doesn't require the edges to be welded.

Then, after the first release I'll see if I can extend it beyond being just strips of quad-faces. Maybe even make it texture triangulated quads.

Anyway - here's the WIP shots. Whatcha think Gaieus? Something for you?

notareal · 14 Nov 2009, 15:36

Looks good!

jeff hammond · 14 Nov 2009, 16:02

whoa, that's definitely something i'll be able to use.. (and this is heading into the direction of the type of UV functionality i'd actually need in SU)

in this example, it looks like it would work great along the top area as it's flat.. what about the curved areas near the bottom? (i drew this with a lot less segments for representational purposes.. an actually drawing would still be all quads though each one would be much smaller)

thomthom · 14 Nov 2009, 16:24

As it is in it current state you'd have to select each row by it self. Your top row is no different from the lower ones except it got larger faces.
But I hope to be able to make it cascade through connected rows, but it'd still have to be quad-faces. Quad-faces are just so much more predictable.

jeff hammond · 14 Nov 2009, 16:36

@thomthom said:

As it is in it current state you'd have to select each row by it self. Your top row is no different from the lower ones except it got larger faces.
But I hope to be able to make it cascade through connected rows, but it'd still have to be quad-faces. Quad-faces are just so much more predictable.

right, i realize that each row is the same.. i'm just wondering if everything will line up through those bends?

right now in SU, i can get basically two results:

on the left if i just import and paint it on.. the right if i turn on hidden geometry and sample/paint each quad.. i'm really hoping for something more like the middle but not necessarily on a sphere. (that's done with whaat's UVtools)

are you thinking you may have come up with a way to do this?

[EDIT] -- ouch.. and i just remembered if i want to render that sphere in indigo and have it turn out correctly, i have to triangulate the faces first. i'm wondering what would happen with these quads that aren't part of a sphere.

thomthom · 14 Nov 2009, 17:11

@unknownuser said:

are you thinking you may have come up with a way to do this?

Like this?

@unknownuser said:

[EDIT] -- ouch.. and i just remembered if i want to render that sphere in indigo and have it turn out correctly, i have to triangulate the faces first. i'm wondering what would happen with these quads that aren't part of a sphere.

Could you triangulate after mapping?
I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

EscapeArtist · 14 Nov 2009, 17:18

Oh man, this made texturing some of the stuff I do so much easier.

Thank you!

jeff hammond · 14 Nov 2009, 17:38

@thomthom said:

Like this?

ha, yes.. exactly like that

@unknownuser said:

Could you triangulate after mapping?
I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

actually, yes.. i just tried it but i have to triangulate manually after mapping.. previously, i tried using the triangulateFaces ruby by TIG but it screws up the mapping if i do it afterwards.. i just assumed doing it manually would create the same problem but no, it works.

ygcl · 15 Nov 2009, 09:44

@frederik said:

Thanks,
@unknownuser said:

Gaieus · 15 Nov 2009, 13:38

Thom, great stuff so far! In my basilica, there was an arch in which there was literally hundreds of bricks. Even with the UV toolkit, it needed a lot of manual "quading" of the faces.
(and there were like 7 different sizes so you can imagine that day I was making them).

majid · 18 Nov 2009, 20:09

maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!

thomthom · 18 Nov 2009, 20:52

@majid said:

maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!

mm? I got no spherical mapping option.

As for the mapping types I do have, I don't have any API to draw texture previews.

Pixero · 29 Nov 2009, 06:35

Just wanted to say thanks. I've had this plugin for a while but recently it saved me when doing some remapping of leaves on a highres tree.
Looking forward to the next version.

Jim · 29 Nov 2009, 18:18

Is this correct, or am I using it wrong? I applied the material, selected the face, and selected "Rotate QF Clockwise 90" from the menu.