A few days ago I mentioned a new blender plugin script uv_pack.py, which helps with packing UV maps on a square. Now I've written two more plugins, one that exports UV maps to an SVG file, and one to import such an SVG file again. This allows to do a lot of work on the maps in an external SVG editor like Inkscape. This is a very convenient way around Blender's rather clumsy UV editor. In Inkscape one can move the maps, rotate, scale them, and can manually pack them much more tightly, and what is even more important, logically. (Yes, Blender comes with an UV->SVG and ->TGA exporter already. Ours doesn't do TGA, but writes much better SVG. :-) All plugins are in ./utils/Modeller/:
uv_pack.py: Takes the uv mappings of all selected objects and packs them efficiently on one, preferably empty texture, while underlaying the area with a random color. This can be used as a first step before doing the fine adjustment in an SVG editor. uv_export_svg.py: Exports the uv mappings of all selected objects to an SVG file with appropriate grouping of objects and groups of adjacent faces within an object. uv_import_svg.py: Imports an SVG file as written by uv_export_svg and updates all UV coordinates in Blender, independent of which objects are selected. (Remove objects in the external editor or remove them from the SVG file if you don't want their coordinates updated.) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
