Hi, all; I have added some initial (and still very brief) documents to the Blender Wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Glossary/U Hi, all; I have added following terms to the Blender Wiki: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Glossary/U UVTex UV Image Editor UV Layer UV Layout UV Map UV Texture UV Texture Layer UV Vertex Can someone with more background please take a look and verify that the documents explain the terms correctly ? I am very unsure about the Term "UV Texture" because i can not make sense of it other than "a Texture used together with a UV Map" but i may be wrong here. I plan to add more details and explaining images where appropriate. And finally i think that all will be summarized in the already existing "UV Mapping" page. But first i would like to get a secnd opinion on this so i know that i am on the right track. thank you -gaia- Am 14.11.2011 12:54, schrieb Jass: > I am mostly OK with the term "UV Layer" in modifiers and other places > which use only the UV coordinates part. Why is it called "layer", can > UV layers be stacked ? Where, how and for what reason ? > > From a users viewpoint: how and where can we access "UV Textures" in > the "UV Textures Layer"? Are there Functions available like : > > - Show the textures on the "UV Texture Layer" > - Add/Modify/remove the textures on the "UV Texture Layer" > > Maybe the "UV Texture layer" got its name because it is technically a > container ? > But in practice an UV Layer contains a UV Map and associations to > multiple Textures > which are named UV Textures only because of that association ? > > And there is yet another pair of terms: "UV Layout" and "UV Map". How > are those > two related to each other ? > > -gaia- > > Am 14.11.2011 04:07, schrieb Brecht Van Lommel: >> The layer is called UV Texture Layer because it contains both UV >> coordinates and an image texture for each face (and some other texture >> face properties before the changes in 2.60). Modifiers and other >> places that use these usually have properties called UV Layer, because >> they only use the UV coordinates part. >> >> So there is a reason for the naming, though it may not be that clear >> and not always applied consistently... >> >> Brecht. >> >> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
