headus uv layout is probably the best uv tool out there... I purchased a dongle license 3 years ago and haven't look back..., although I really like uv unfold from soft.. uvlayout has far far more features that can become handy depending the complexity of the asset...
uvlayout is a tool that has being designed specially for "hardcore" production uv creation & editing.. offering multiple features such as mirror uvs, localized relax of uvs, set sample uv ratio for uv islands, multi udim packing, copy uvs, group uv islands...etc etc.. but for me the best "feature" of uvlayout is its "hotkey" workflow approach... you can manage pretty much any tool with shortcuts, and once you get used to it gets really fast... also headus offers plugins to integrate uvlayout directly with softimage, maya...etc so you can send a mesh directly from softimage and once you finish doing your uvs you can import it back to soft using the send button in the uvlayout interface. uv layout is also great for editing existing uvs, sometimes I do my uvs straightly in softimage but import them to uvlayout and keep tweaking & rearranging them... depending on the work that needs to be done. Besides uvlayout I would recommend you "roadkill" (http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/page8.htm) it is a free uv app that works really well, sure it does not have lots of features like uvlayout does, but it works really well too and hey... its free! I did a quick video some time ago in case you are curious about roadkill as well: http://vimeo.com/52812933 On my current job I am using maya on a linux environment so I can't use roadkill... as it is for windows only I think... so I am using uvlayout (also because maya uv tools suck :) Hope that helps Regards, -Manuel IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 22:05:20 +0000 Subject: Headus UV Layout Hi, A few staff have asked to purchase licenses of Headus UV Layout for students. I haven’t used it – any thoughts? Cheers Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival DirectorComputer Animation Academic GroupNational Centre for Computer Animation Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805+44 (0) 1202 965805 Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou Student Work: http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching with wide scientific and creative applications BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype
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