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tims3d
07-19-2005, 11:15 AM
So I'm mapping this character that I build. For the arm I had used cylindrical mapping. The arm is one piece of geomertry but because it is bent I want to use two cylindrical mapping on them. First I highlighted the upper arm faces, did a cylindrical map and everything goes well. Now here is the weird part. For the lower arm, I try to repeart the same procedue that I did on the upper arm but nothing happend. I go into UV ediotr adjust the UV and it works but when I applied uv mapping on them such as plannar or cylindrical, it will not work. I tried to seperate them into two different geometries but when I tried to extract the faces maya says poly face has only 1 piece, ignored. This is not the first time I do uv unwrapping in maya and this has never happend before does anyone know the solution to this problem?

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
roberte
07-20-2005, 03:26 PM
you might try closing and reopening maya. I just had a similar problem, no matter what I did I couldnt map an area of a model, although up to then there was no problem. I closed and reopened and everything worked.
tims3d
07-21-2005, 07:34 AM
you might try closing and reopening maya. I just had a similar problem, no matter what I did I couldnt map an area of a model, although up to then there was no problem. I closed and reopened and everything worked.

thx for the suggestion, that seems to be working but not 100% and it is happening more and more often now. I'm assume you are using 6.5 as well?
roberte
07-21-2005, 12:27 PM
no I'm using 6.1. Sorry I don't have enough experience to give more tips. Did you try optimizing your scene (file/optimize scene)or deleting history? (edit/delete/history)
the_podman
07-24-2005, 07:57 AM
I ran into something similar and it turned out that my mesh had two UV sets and I couldn't get rid of one. My solution was to export out as .obj with everything unchecked and reimport a clean mesh.
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