Could it be you have the selection set to "Sample" instead of Point,
Polygon or Edge ?
- Ronald
On 12/21/2013 16:48, Tim Leydecker wrote:
Hi Ronald,
thanks,yes.That works but I seem to be unable to convert a selection
made in the Texture Editor to the corresponding Polys, Vertices or Edges?
Example, I select a few points in the Texture Editor but in the
viewports,
the corresponding UVs are displayed as selected and I can´t find a way to
convert that active selection as displayed in the viewport to the actual
selection made in the Texture Editor.
It´s not a big deal but it would be nice to have to be able to select any
subobject type in the Texture Editor and have the proper subobject type
selected in the viewportsand be able to convert between selections as in
the viewport menue options but including the UV/bisectors component type.
In Maya, you can do that and it sometimes speeds up things when creating
selections or manipulating UV shells or checking streching and such.
Also, in XSI I find it more difficult to determine if two UVs really
align,
where in Maya, I can see in the HUD if it´s one or two and merge them
to make
sure or even simply check border edges to be displayed as thicker than
edges
inside a shell.
Cheers,
tim
On 21.12.2013 13:58, Toonafish wrote:
I'm not sure if I understood your problem correctly. But if you
select an object in Softimage and go into any component mode (
polygon, points, edges ) and select some vertices in
the Texture editor, the corresponding components will be selected in
your viewport. At least, that's what happens at this end.
-Ronald
On 12/21/2013 13:30, Tim Leydecker wrote:
In Softimage, is it possible to have a selection of UVs
converted to the corresponding Polygons via the Texture Editor?
Something like a right click "convert selection to points/edges/etc"?
I don´t mean an Island selection but just a few UVs.
In Maya you can do that, as UVs are treated as just another
subobject mode
(select shell/island is an extra right click>menu step compared to
Softimage,thought).
In terms of general doom and gloom mode:
I´m currently unfolding props/assets and I need to jump in 3Dcoat to
do nice ABF/LSM
unwraps with proportionally evenly distributed texture space/face,
then go back to
Softimage to find my current combo of "experimental" 3D coat build
and Softimage
gives me a bug and each UV´d face is coming in/out as it´s own shell
when using
the *.obj format, so I just pipe Maya inbetween and merge all those
back together
with a very low threshold in Maya, getting back the shells as
layouted in 3Dcoat,
shuffle things a bit around using Unfold/Relax in Maya then export
to Softimage,
which just says thanks, if that´s what you like and let´s me copy
and paste the
result back to my intial geometry.
If all three(Max, Maya, Softimage) where one, I´d be fucked...
tim
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