+1 I so agree with this, UV Layers / UV Coords and specially UV Maps are good names, UV textures are NOT. an UV is NOT a texture, it's just a mapping coordinate. Personally I'd like if it was called UV Map all over, since it's correct, short and also a more standard name
cheers Daniel Salazar 3Developer.com On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Jass <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > I located following terms in Blender and Blender documentation: > > UV-Texture > UV-Map > UV Layer > UV Texture Layer > > And it looks a bit like the terms sometimes get mixed up. > I scrolled over different areas in the Blender-GUI and i found: > > in Image editor: > > - Export UV Layout > > In Object properties (texture section) > > - Mapping -> UV > > In Object Properties (Object Data Section) > > - UV Texture > - UVTex (default name of new UV texture) > - "Add UV Texture Layer" (in tooltip) > > In Modifer (UV Project Modifier) > > - UV Layer > - UV Layer name (tooltip) > > ==== > > After trying to identify the differences between the above mentioned terms > I derived the following definition for these terms. Please can you tell me > if this is correct, or clarify where i am wrong ? > > UV Map: Map which relates the faces of a mesh to areas on a > 2-dimensional image.** > UV Texture Layer: Synonym for UV Map > UV Layer: shortform of "UV Texture Layer" > UV Texture: A texture which needs a UV Map to be projected on the > surface of an Object > > ==== > > If the first 3 terms are indeed synonyms, then i propose to replace them > by one single term. > I think "UV Map" would be the one to use and then we have only: > > UV Map ( a map between faces on an object and corresponding > locations on a 2D image) > UV Texture (an image that uses a UV Map) > > what do you think about this ? If i am right then > this change would make it much easier to understand UV texturing with > Blender and it > would become much easier to explain it... > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
