[Plugin] SketchUV - now free

Rich O Brien

To properly map that sofa you need to unwrap it in an external app. Box map is a viewed based method that assigns textures from 6 views - top/bottom/left/right/front/back.

This is why there is a noticeable break in the texture. Did you try select the area that is misaligned and rotating/scaling the textures?

numerobis

wow! great!
i think this will be my first paid plugin!

solo

@numerobis said:

wow! great!
i think this will be my first paid plugin!

really? you do not have Artisan? I'd suggest you get that too.

Krisidious

will this work for mapping cars? and will the maps transfer over to other programs well like Max?

can you optimize UVW maps with it? using all the area on a map for more than one piece of geometry?

jason_maranto

Tube mapping looks to be a especially nice new tool.

Best,
Jason.

ninopiamonte

If only I have bucks I would buy that plugin!

utiler

Well done, Dale!! I'm going there now to purchase....

EarthMover

Woohoo! Great job Dale! A MUST HAVE PLUGIN!

Frederik

Excellent plugin, Dale...
I've always wondered why the Google SU team haven't made better UV-tools...
Well... It's fortunate for you guys, who then have the option to work on various plugins and get some $$...
Nevertheless, it should be a standard in SU IMHO...

thomthom

Looking forward to see the models people make with this tool.

moghamdi

I tried to use it on my sofa, but I could not get the result that I am looking for.

I used Box map and planner map, but it did not work.

Can you please help me with this?
I attached SKP file.

Thank you.

Sofa1.zip

agamemnus

I just got the newsletter. No visible link to the review.

I can't find the review via google. (try putting "sketchuv" on there... no hits)

http://news.sketchucation.com/ is a horrible indecipherable mess.

Gaieus

Here is the announcement, Agamemnus:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=44500

The links are in big, fat letters at the bottom of the first post.

agamemnus

Thanks.

That soldier example was very impressive...

numerobis

@solo said:

really? you do not have Artisan? I'd suggest you get that too.

i have tested the free demo but found it to be too slow and lagging for intuitive sculpting and it's still no subD-modeling so the geometry gets broken and the model becomes very large and unhandy... - i prefer subD-modeling in max and export it to sketchup or merge the geometry before rendering.
Real SubD-modeling in sketchup would be incredible!!! Hope dies last...

(maybe i'll integrate silo or voidworld into my workflow - quite nice little modeling apps, but this would be one import/export step more... which holds me back for now)

Whaat

@moghamdi said:

I tried to use it on my sofa, but I could not get the result that I am looking for.

I used Box map and planner map, but it did not work.

Can you please help me with this?
I attached SKP file.

Thank you.

Hello,

Box mapping will show seams at curving surfaces so it is not ideal for that part of the couch. I recommend using the exact same technique that I used in the tutorial video attached to the first post of this thread (first part of the video):

Separate the surface into smaller surfaces using the Path Select Tool
Use planar projections on each surface
Align them using the UV transformation tools

In the attached video, I actually began with box mapping, and then used the seams as a guide to separate the surfaces. I didn't have to switch the material to the UV Texture but I thought it would help with the alignment.

[flash=560,315:34f1096s]http://www.youtube.com/v/MKH7AkTq-f0[/flash:34f1096s]

Gaieus

This is still magic to me.

Whaat

@krisidious said:

will this work for mapping cars? and will the maps transfer over to other programs well like Max?

can you optimize UVW maps with it? using all the area on a map for more than one piece of geometry?

Hi Kris,

You can map cars by dividing the surfaces into separate panels and applying planar projections to it. I expect it would work very well. Any surfaces that were especially tricky could be easily unwrapped using Roadkill (a free UV unwrapping app) that you can export and import UVs with using SketchUV.

You can not optimize maps with it directly. However, by exporting to another app, that can be done. Again, using Roadkill, the maps are automatically optimized by default as you unwrap the mesh. See this tutorial:

[flash=560,315:mq6wro7c]http://www.youtube.com/v/NXS6_WdXZ3s[/flash:mq6wro7c]

The maps should transfer perfectly to Max as long as you first use the triangulation function prior to 3DS export. This is explained in this tutorial:

[flash=560,315:mq6wro7c]http://www.youtube.com/v/baQwxL6mgMQ[/flash:mq6wro7c]

numbthumb

A kind of magic I´m willing to learn.
And how did you make your signature dissapear Gaieus?

Gaieus

@whaat said:

...The maps should transfer perfectly to Max as long as you first use the triangulation function prior to 3DS export...

Well, I do not know about Max itself (although why would it be different) but have tried a couple of 3rd party apps and indeed, with triangulation on, it exports perfectly.
And Dale, you need to make a new video for this feature. This one shows the UV maps a bit distorted but the plugin does not distort them (any longer).

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@numbthumb said:

And how did you make your signature dissapear Gaieus?

It's there...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/ucp.php?i=profile&mode=signature[/off:2c139be9]