diomede opened this issue on Feb 26, 2011 · 10 posts
ockham posted Sat, 26 February 2011 at 7:28 PM
Sometimes UVmapper won't actually redo the map until you force things.
How I do it:
Select the groups or material zones that I want to map together.
Hit apostrophe then right bracket '] to force an initial map, which will probably look awful.
Pick the type of mapping (cylindrical, etc) that seems appropriate.
If this mapping doesn't feel right, I'll hit F2 to turn on the 'interactive'. This will usually produce a better-fitting map immediately, but sometimes it's necessary to rotate the little circly things on the right side until the correct perspective comes through.
Hit F2 again to get out of interactive.
Hit Ctrl-T to save the template as BMP.
Finally Ctrl-S to resave the OBJ.