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midduke
03-29-2009, 12:12 PM
Ok so I am having a bit of trouble with UV mapping. I am only new to this 3D thing and this UV mapping thing is starting to get the better of me. I am trying to unwrap a battery so basically a cylinder, shouldn't be that hard right? Wrong, well for me anyways, When I select the faces of the cylinder and i select cylindrical unwrap than it shows up in the UV texture editor. Well its to big to fit in the top right square, so I try to scale it, but I can't scale it uniformly, I have tried holding down the shift key like in other programs such as photoshop when you want to scale something. So what am I doing wrong, please help, its such a small thing but really annoying.

Cheers
leigh
03-29-2009, 12:37 PM
It would help if you mentioned what software you're using...
midduke
03-29-2009, 12:53 PM
Oh sorry, I typed that really quickly because I was annoyed hehe. I am using maya.

Cheers
leigh
03-29-2009, 01:20 PM
Oooh I don't have Maya here at home to check for sure, and it's been a while since I actually did any UV mapping as such, but isn't there a Preserve Aspect Ratio option or something like that?
danshewan
03-29-2009, 01:38 PM
Well its to big to fit in the top right square, so I try to scale it, but I can't scale it uniformly, I have tried holding down the shift key like in other programs such as photoshop when you want to scale something. So what am I doing wrong, please help, its such a small thing but really annoying.

Rather than select the faces, select all the UV's (by either drag-selecting them in the UV texture editor, or select one then ctrl + right-click and selecting 'To Shell'), and then use the Scale tool to scale the shell uniformly.
midduke
03-30-2009, 04:01 AM
See thats what I did ^^, but I couldn't find any scale tool, apart from the normal scale tool but that doesn't do anything in the texture editor. Am I making things hard for myself, is there an easier way of doing this, or.

Thanks for your help guys.
pap87
03-30-2009, 04:12 AM
If you select all the UVs like Dan suggested you can scale them down uniformly by using the scale tool and middle-mouse drag in the UV editor and sure enough they will scale up or down uniformly.
midduke
03-30-2009, 06:03 AM
OK cool, thanks for your help guys. :D
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