UV Zone Layout

Description

UV Zone Layout is a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UV shells very quickly and easily in 3ds Max. This toolset is designed to be used with reusable textures like tiling textures, trim-sheets and texture atlases. It allows users to quickly resize and remap uv shells to designated uv zones.

This tool was inspired by Blender’s DreamUV and Maya’s AriUVFit tools.

 

Interface

Videos

Quickly assign UV shells to zones by clicking on any zone.

 

Create zones from selected UV shells

 

Create custom zones and edit their position in the zone map viewer

 

Add padding to UV shells before mapping to a zone

 

Use the Unwrap Toolbox to quickly Align, Distribute, Space, Rotate, and Resize UV shells

 

Features

• Supports 3ds Max 2022, 2023, 2024
• Saving/Loading UV Zone Layout templates
• List View and Map View of UV Zone Layout
• Background image support in Map View
• Editing Zone is the Map View
• Creating UV Zones from selected UV shells
• Includes UV_Unwrap Toolbox

Installation

• Directions included in the download

Usage

1. Launch the UV Zone Layout tool (can be accessed by assigning it a shortcut)
2. Add an Unwrap_UVW modifier to your object
3. Select the Unwrap_UVW modifier and go into polygon select mode
4. While in polygon select mode you can begin assigning UV_Shells to the Zones you create in the tool. Check out the video above to see more details on how to use the tool.

Changelog

1.0

• initial release

2.0

• Complete rewrite
• Added revamped Zone editor
  • Object and Grid snapping
  • Grid controls
  • Interactive resizable zones
• UV Zone Layout file extensions to saved presets