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Dargon
08-13-2009, 09:53 PM
I'm having a bit of an issue, and I hope that someone out here might have some insight that can help me out.

I'm trying to set up a basic mesh that would be simply (but properly, for my uses) UV'ed, and transfer those UVs to my other meshes.

For example, a low-polygon torso that is UV'd, transferred to a high polygon version.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but a certain quality level would be needed or else it's a bit useless.

I'm using 3DS Max 2010, and it's system for this sucks. It crashes about 75% of the time, and the 25% that it doesn't, the results are less than desirable.

Now, I'm not going to be able to justify something like Maya or XSI - but does anybody know of any third party software that will do this job well? Preferably something that we can script, but any suggestions would be welcome.
iLegacy
08-13-2009, 10:45 PM
To transfer UVs you have to use the same model. What you can do: create a lowpoly model, uv it, go to zBrush or whatever you use for highpoly modeling - model and increase the polycount and the UVs will be there.

If you have a highpoly without uvs, but you have the lowpoly still there - uv the lowpoly, increase the subdivisions via turbosmooth by exactly the multiplicator you did for your highpoly and then transfer it.

Transfer UVs: add "uvw mapping" to the source model (lowpoly?), hit the "save" button, add uvw mapping the target model (highpoly?) and hit the "load" button.
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