one-click UV in Blender now

[Anonymous No.753736]

https://twitter.com/Leukbaars/status/1279288819708125185

[Anonymous No.753738]

welcome to every other tool ten years ago, blendlets

[Anonymous No.753755]

>>753738
Nope

[Anonymous No.753765]

>>753755
It's the same kneejerk reaction those crusty shitters here literally always bring when there's some feature introduced in Blender. Doesn't matter if it really is an opensores version of some feature other programs had or not, it's always the same post.

[Anonymous No.753770]

>>753736
Great, Blender has uvs now.

[Anonymous No.753771]

>>753736
Post this in the Blender thread, you idiot.

Sincerely,
An actual Blendie

[Anonymous No.753785]

>>753771
>posts take 15 fucking days to fall off the board and seems to gradually get even slower
>wahhwaahh muh generals
Go suck some dicks you faggot

[Anonymous No.753792]

top: decimated high poly thing
bottom: Boolean modifiers
it did a surprisingly good job

>>753738
>>753770
>>753771
fuck off shit-stains

[Anonymous No.753793]

>>753736
It works on the most basic-bitch hard surface sculpt possible. That's great. Now let's see if it works on a human figure.

[Anonymous No.753794]

>>753793
it's not designed for that you literal fucktard, go eat shit

[Anonymous No.753811]

>>753793
That's because it isn't made to be used for characters...

I love this tool, it works unbelievably well for certain things I'm doing right now. E.g. I have wooden houses with tons of planks, and other wooden objects. With a good trimsheet I'm getting awesome results with nice damages on the edges, without having to manually line up all the faces. That would be a pain.

[Anonymous No.753823]

>>753793
why would you need this tool for a human figure

You don't actually model do you?

[Anonymous No.753826]

I'm glad that Blender is moving up in the world but it's playing catch up, not making a move on other software. I am actually surprised Blender didn't have something like this years ago.

[Anonymous No.753827]

>>753826
Do Max or Maya have something like this?

[Anonymous No.753913]

>>753827
what? Auto uv's?

yeah...

[Anonymous No.753918]

>>753827
its called PTEX

[Anonymous No.753920]

>>753913
>>753918
Ok, I actually cringed reading this. How about you actually inform yourself about the addon in OP before commenting? Auto UV and PTEX are not the same thing. Why do you have to be this way? Why shit on anything related to blender ASAP in every thread, before even reading the OP?

[Anonymous No.753922]

>>753920
Ok, I actually cringed at reading this. Not only do you assume its the same poster, you also assume that I said even remotely close to saying Auto UV'ing is the same as PTEX.

Also I dont shit on anything blender related. Considering I use the program for my job its actually quite laughable that you even mention that.

[Anonymous No.753929]

>>753918
It's a shame that Blender's developers were too dumb to figure out how to implement PTEX, it would have given them something ahead of the other software at the time instead of now being forced to rely on soon to be abandoned and incompatible third party scripts like this.

[Anonymous No.753930]

>>753922
Ok, I actually cringed at reading this. (kek) No man, I didn't assume you're the same person, I'm speaking to both anons. AutoUV and PTEX aren't remotely close to each other and no, I didn't assume you said that. I'm saying the addon in OP is something which hasn't been available in Blender before. I don't know if it has been a thing in Max or Maya either, I certainly didn't see it. It might have been in Modo, I think I saw somebody mention it in some Twitter reply.

Anyway, what this does is figure out the placement of all the faces so they fit on a trim and the edges nicely align to the edges of the section of your trim. It isn't just mindless auto UV. It's useful for trimsheet workflow because it unwraps it and also fits it correctly, then you can just move it around if necessary. But sometimes I get great results right away. Normal unwrap doesn't take the grids on a trimsheet into account.

[Anonymous No.753931]

>>753920
>the inferiority complex radiating from this post...

[Anonymous No.753988]

maxlets exposed again

[Anonymous No.757019]

>>753755
Cope

[Anonymous No.757038]

>>757019
Other programs don't have this feature. And no, this is NOT just an auto unwrap, this is something different.

[Anonymous No.757065]

>>753785
Nigger, choke on a bag of dicks. If you can't understand that posting outside the blender general just causes software flame wars, then you're too stupid to live and should be culled immediately.

[Anonymous No.757085]

>>757065
>returns literally 15 days later to be all butthurt again
Lmao, go back to gagging on dicks

[Anonymous No.759237]

>>757085
quiet

[Anonymous No.759258]

All Blender requires to gain a new feature is for someone to care enough to make it. You will never have that freedom with commercial software. Your choices are to use their plugin API (if they have one), or petition them for the feature.

[Anonymous No.759260]

This is a very nice, performant add-on. I will be keeping this in my permanent toolkit.

However, splitting your workspace into 3D and UV viewports, and using the UV editor to see how it affects the object in 3D is really not *that* much different. People in this thread are acting like this adds functionality that was missing, or replaces existing workflows. It will not make you faster, either.

This add-on excels when you want to go full-screen, hide all the widgets, and move the textures around in 3D. You're still going to have to dip into the UV editor to fine tune things, though.

[Anonymous No.759263]

>>759260
Although I should add the hotspot feature could basically be its own add-on. That feature is really cool and not something I think you could do.

[Anonymous No.759264]

>>753736
>it's a plugin

[Anonymous No.759267]

>>759260
>>759263
I think people are only talking about hotspot here, I didn't even touch other features, I don't need them.

I'm not so sure about how performant hotspot is, I LOVE the feature and it works great for certain things, but the problem is that it seems to get crazy slow if it has to work on even remotely complex geo, I have to run it on multiple smaller sections of mesh, otherwise Blender freezes.

[Anonymous No.759269]

>>753736
blendlet here, what am I looking at?

[Anonymous No.759285]

>>759269
a mesh is made up of a bunch of quads right?
imagine arbitrarily breaking up a plane mesh into a bunch of quads, our so-called "atlas". like a mondrian square. see pic related.
image if you looped through all the faces of a second object, and found the closest matching quad (in dimensions) from the atlas object.
now imagine that our atlas had a uv map and a texture applied, ok?
imagine if for each of the faces in our second object that you not only found it's closest-matching quad, but you also returned the coordinates of that quad on its uv map. both quads would point to the same texels!
this means you could create a texture that has "islands" of pixels. these "islands" could be assigned to the quads on an atlas via uv mapping, and any object that has lots of seams could be easily textured by mapping its faces to the atlas. the entire process is instantaneous which is very powerful for lots of hardsurface shapes. hope that maybe clears things up.

https://github.com/leukbaars/DreamUV
the bottom of this page has a few screenshots that illustrate why this concept is helpful as a workflow

[Anonymous No.759286]

>>759285
Notice how all the edges of the crane are "dirty" and that the atlas to the left has lines of dirt that are at right angles
the edges of your atlas mesh would line up with the dirt

[Anonymous No.759451]

>>759267
maybe your meshes aren't optimized? just tried it with a mesh with 1000 faces and it was instantaneous

[Anonymous No.759857]

>>753792
the fuck am I looking at

[Anonymous No.759882]

>>759258
>You will never have that freedom with commercial software.
Every commercial DCC has python. And the all have API's that are well documented. Not to mention internal languages. Houdini has several, Maya has Mel. Max has Maxscript etc.
If you know how to write a script or an addon/plugin, than you are free to do so. There is nothing stopping you.
Your idiotic remark in regards to customizability of DCC's makes no sense whatsoever. You have no clue.

[Anonymous No.759885]

>>759882
>Every commercial DCC has python.
What does that have to do with _commercial software_? The statement stands: not all commercial software have scripting languages or plugin systems.

Also, have fun reverse engineering file formats when the company goes bankrupt or abandons the product. Source code is the most important means of digital preservation for software. Maybe you're fine with losing a lifetime of work, but not all of us are. You have no clue.

[Anonymous No.759887]

>>759882
fuck off you little bitch, fucking shill
defending million dollar corporations, licked enough of that boot, bootlicker?

[Anonymous No.759901]

>>759887
This is your brain on Blender.

[Anonymous No.760179]

>>753736
>>753918
>its called PTEX
PTEX in blender when?

t. blender fanboy who is thirsty for PTEX.

[Anonymous No.760207]

>>760179
>>753918
>A
>U->Reset
>Go to UV view
>Ctrl+P
Wooow PTEX
Impressive stuff
woooooooow

[Anonymous No.760209]

>>760207
Actually, my bad:

>A
>Ctrl+E->mark seams
>U->Unwrap
>Go to UV view
>Ctrl+P

[Anonymous No.760213]

>>760207
>>760209
Retard.

[Anonymous No.760217]

>>760179
PTEX is dead - nobody except some dudes at Pixar are using it.

[Anonymous No.760222]

>>760209
>>760207
>Wooow PTEX

Only blender lacks any serious tools to work with this mess!
See:
https://youtu.be/yFwoeOLECe4?t=1823
https://youtu.be/yFwoeOLECe4?t=2106

Hope you only wanted to use the default draw brushes on it bro.
And I'm a blender evangelist. Blender needs real PTEX sport.
You can not stamp on objects or move things on top of it all or integrate with any other program (unlike UV unwraped stuff).

[Anonymous No.760229]

>>760222
>Blender needs real PTEX sport.
Why? You think it's going to be used at Pixar or some shit if it gets Ptex support? lmao

[Anonymous No.760231]

>>760222
That has literally nothing to do with PTEX. Blender has projection paint too, since forever. Not impressive in the slightest.

[Anonymous No.760288]

wtf blendshit doesn't even have ptex are u fucking kidding me....

[Anonymous No.760306]

>>760229
>Why?
Because PTEX is nice to use.

[Anonymous No.760307]

>>760231
>That has literally nothing to do with PTEX.
Aha so
>Wooow PTEX
is bullshit.
>Blender has projection paint too, since forever
I know and its limited.

The point is that mudbox lets you do something else then draw in this one style with blender tools on objects in blender.

Lets say you want to paste some placard on a grave stone, you have the photo...
And you can go fuck yourself! A messed up mesh like yours will be impossible to paste this on.

Better hope you like writing all this text by hand on the texture!

Mudbox solves this problem by letting you past stamps all over the place, actually integrating with photoshop and no need to UV unwrap with no visible joining of UVs.

This is the benefit of PTEX for me..

[Anonymous No.762171]

Tbh it didn't work very well for me.

[Anonymous No.762241]

>>753792
You're posting this like it's something incredible. I can open Maya right now, click auto-UV and get a similar result.

Also, what the fuck is with those ngons in the boolean model?

[Anonymous No.762252]

>>762241
You're just another dude here who doesn't understand the point of this addon...

[Anonymous No.763355]

>>753736
Awesome, Blender is top tier!

[Anonymous No.763374]

>>762252
Then explain it for mongoloids like me