Mostly on topic, hopefuly someone here uses Deep UV and can give me a hand out on this. Takes RightHemisphere a couple of days to answer questions sometimes and the time zone difference is killer trying to get anything solved in under a week. Anyway, here's the situation.... Imported the obj for a poser character into Deep UV, Arranged, then Relaxed the map, Exported the newly mapped object. Now the Morphs no longer work. Tried to use UVMapper to transfer the uvmap from the new obj back to the old object and it said that the vertexs are incompatible.... thus explaining the Morphs not working. But the main question is, what happened and how does one go about fixing this problem? Help?

When you rearranged the map, did you make any changes to the geometry? In other words, did you split things differently? I'm not sure, but I think if you just relax it, it should be OK. If you like, I have Deep UV and UV Mapper Pro, I can try to help you out. Dee

I should probably add that I am leaving for work in about 45 minutes and won't be able to get back to you until later tonight. If you like you can IM me for a place to download the file and I'll see what I can do to help. In the meantime, perhaps what you can do is do as much rearranging in UV Mapper as you can, and then bring it into Deep UV just to relax it. If that doesn't solve the problem, I'll catch ya later 8-)

Nope, That was the strange part, I imported the same obj, relaxed it exported it and could use UV Mapper to transfer between the two relaxed, but couldn't transfer back to the original obj..... I'll try a full reboot, maybe something was hanging in the memory or some such misbehaving. Good to know that it should work cause that's exactly what I was doing. Thanks!

Hmmm ... one thing you can check is to open the "original" object (the one before you made the changes), in UV Mapper. Check the INFO on the object (In UV Mapper Pro it's the Tools, Statistics command - in UV Mapper freeware, this info appears when you first open the file). Compare the number of vertices, textures, and facets of the original and the reworked one ... if they are different then there might not be much you can do. However, if they are the same, there is a command in UV Mapper Pro (Tools, Vertices, Reorder) that might help, but I've never had a need to use it. Deep UV is wonderful for UV Mapping something before it's released ... but to change mapping for something that is already "out there" it creates some problems. Maybe we can figure out some workarounds. 8-)

Merrrrrrr ..... well just did the reboot. Tried it again, no go, tried it with reorder, vertex count off... hmmmmms and peers.

Ah ha!!! Talked with a Deep UV master who was incredibly sweet and let me in on the problem.... had the obj in groups... removing the grouping, uvmap it then regroup it and all should work... crosses my fingers and hopes.......

Hmmmm ... but then how do you get the groups back in? If it's something simple, like a skirt or shirt, it might not be so bad ... but if it's a figure (like Victoria) you'd have to do all those fingers and stuff all over again, and it would have to be exact. You can't use the original UVs to add the grouping back in, because that will also apply the original mapping. LOL I'm confused now ;-)

Actually I know with UVMapper pro you can export uvmaps that don't change the grouping so then you just use that to export the new UV map and put it on the already grouped set I think.... Here's hoping ;)

I'm going to page Steve Cox ... maybe he can give us some input on this as well 8-)

Yeah! It worked!

Hi Littlefox - It sounds like Deep UV is changing the number of vertices for some reason (perhaps because the model is grouped?) Hard to imagine why it needs to do that. Have you had any luck finding a work around? If not, let me know and I'll see if there's anything I can do to help. Coming soon - UVMapper Pro 3.0 with it's own relax vertices feature (hopefully this will no longer be a problem =) Steve

Oops - posted before I saw your response. Glad you got things figured out - Steve

Wooowooo!!!! Good news on the UVMapper Pro 3.0! Yep, thankfully this is working for now. Thanks for the help!

Steve, I've been very, very, very patient... but when is the Mac version of UVMPro coming out? Carolly

Attached Link: http://uvmapper.com/download/UVX.app.tgz

Steve i am a bit of a nob about the relaxing vertices feature . Whats the purpose of it ?

thanks steve i get it now.

any chance symetry will be included in new version?...I'm already in love of course, but symetry would be awesome :)

Thanks, Steve... your work is greatly appreciated (and needed!!!) or we wouldn't be hovering like this!

Silverleif-Studios - I don't think it'll be included in the initial release - I have a few features that I really want to add that will have to wait for a point release. I really needed to stop adding more features or it will never get out the door =P Out of curosity, how do you see the symmetry feature working from the users point of view? Perhaps if we can come up with a simple way to implement it, I might be able to find the time to fit it in sooner... hauksdottir - thanks for the kind words =) Steve