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uglycat
09-28-2008, 05:22 AM
This is kind of an odd request, but does anyone know of a way to unfold the mesh itself from the UV coordinates?

basically, say I unwrapped my object, now I want to rip the mesh at all the UV seams and flatten it out in the same shape as my UVs.

Is there a quick way to do this aside from putting a plane with the UV wireframe behind your mesh and manually positioning all the vertices?
CodeVeroby
09-28-2008, 12:12 PM
Not any way that I know of, good question though ...
blank
09-28-2008, 02:35 PM
maybe this could help as it says it creates a flat mesh from the UVs onto which to lay your complex model i.e. knit pattern, not had a chance to look myself but you never know.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=25&t=678648

actually in the thread below this one :-)
uglycat
09-28-2008, 05:11 PM
my god, that actually works exactly as i need it! i skimmed over thread titles never thinking to look at that one! thanks for pointing it out! :)
blank
09-29-2008, 02:26 PM
No problem was just lucky I'd just read the other thread before yours :-)
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