Unwrapping problem

[LFShade]

You could either just collapse the whole stack, or right-click on the edit mesh modifier in the list and choose "collapse to". The mapping will stick either way, but the latter will allow you to keep the UVW map & unwrap modifiers on the stack.

[Meatex_Salami]

yeah tried that but the edit mesh is where i unfolded the mesh and if i collapse it stays in the unfolded state and i lose the original model :thumbsdow

[Stroker]

Save the UV to file.
Copy the unfolded mesh.
Load the UV to it.

Kind of a stab in the dark 'cause I'm not entirely sure what the problem is.

[Meatex_Salami]

im not sure whether the copy mesh step would fix anything but i tried saving the unwrap then binning the edit mesh then loading the unwrap but that didn't work either.
Okay i'll try to explain things better
i have a helicopter model (20000+ polys) editable mesh which i stacked an edit mesh modifier onto it. Then on the edit mesh i selected faces, detached as element, rotated to a common normal then flattened it. I did this to the whole model until the model was unfolded and could be mapped with a single planer UVW map. The a UVW Unwrap modifier was applied and i tweaked the unwrap for all 5 mat ID's. It textureed exactly how i wanted to in it's unfolded state. No you're supposed to be able to get rid of the edit mesh from the stack to get a unwrapped model in normal state. However when i bin the edit mesh the UVW Map re-maps and unwraps it and it won't let me load the "good unwrap" (well it lets me load it but it has no effect)
I hope thats a better explenation :wip:

[Null_Object]

Did you apply a Material modifier before you did the UV & UV unwrap if not this could be the problem. Your map is locked on polys that have not been assigned a material modifier. Try doing and Edit mesh select the polys you want to add the textures to. then assign them a Material ID.

UVW it tweak it then collapse it and the texture should stay.

[3rd Dimentia]

This is just a guess, but maybe try applying a morph modifier to the flattened one and assigning the orig mesh as a target, bump the target up to 100% and collapse.

[Jay Shadow]

Originally posted by 3rd Dimentia
This is just a guess, but maybe try applying a morph modifier to the flattened one and assigning the orig mesh as a target, bump the target up to 100% and collapse.

That one should work. Clone it, remove all the modifiers on the clone so it's back to the original shape. Put a morpher on top of the original. Use the clone as the target, and do everything he said above :)

The only problem you might run into is if you made any major changes to the mesh while manually unwrapping it. It could keep the original from being used as a morph target. If that was the case, I'm not sure what to do then :shrug:

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