I'm a coordinator who has come back to assist in some cleanup. I have been assigned the daunting task of going through the tutorials, and they date back to 2001. I'm taking them on the best way I know how, which means you'll be seeing occasional posts from me in various forums.

First one I'm tackling pertains to good old UV Mapper by Steve Cox. The app used to be pretty popular around here. I want to pick some brains (hopefully better than what I currently possess) and find out if anyone still uses it, does it run on newer OSs (it ran on my Windows 10 pro machine just fine), does it do what needs to be done given the current state of models out there? Etc. Etc.

Tutorial is located here. Basic HTML page with equally basic directions on using the app.

All and any opinions are welcome.

I used the Classic version until I started using Shade3D which has a UV unwrap function onboard. Classic UVMapper works on windows 10, if I recall correctly. Should be useful for simple projects.

I still use the Pro frequently.

I use UVMapper Pro frequently; nearly everything I make passes through it at least once. I've run it on WinXP 32bit, Vista Ultimate 64bit, and Win7Pro&Ultimate 64bit.

I use Pro on Win 7 64 bit.

I also still use the app. It does work on Windows 10 very well. I don't use the tutorial, however, every now and then I look at Steve's site for new info.

Sharen

I still use the classic periodically.

I still use it

I still find the Pro version a convenient tool for splitting selected edges and vertices . True, Poser has had a "creasing angle" parameter for several releases, but occasionally, one still encounters some stray polygons that don't want to play nice. UV Mapper Pro helps me a lot in those situations.

Sincerely,

Bill

Can't live without it! Always there for my templates, materials, areas that I'm texturing in map and 3Dview mode! :)

Sorry, I'm a Blender man. Although I did use UVMapper when I first started. Sadly, for me, I was on a Mac, and UVM Pro did not work on a mac.

I use UV Mapper Pro constantly and also sometimes classic (on smaller projects)... it remains an incredibly useful part of my modelling tool box and works just fine in Win7...

Redfern posted at 9:38PM Thu, 08 June 2017 - #4307026

I still find the Pro version a convenient tool for splitting selected edges and vertices . True, Poser has had a "creasing angle" parameter for several releases, but occasionally, one still encounters some stray polygons that don't want to play nice. UV Mapper Pro helps me a lot in those situations.

Sincerely,

Bill

Bill - don't split. Add control verts. A loop around the edges of something will force them to sharpen up.

I still use an older version of Pro very often. I don't use it to do uvmapping tho....I do that in Wings. I use it more for creating or deleting material zones, setting smoothing or splitting vertices. I know SamT says to use control edges - and I do - but for Poser sometimes I still have to split verts in order for it to turn out how I want it to ;). I still get "puff" even with control edges sometimes...lol.

Laurie

Okay! I think I got my answer. You guys are great.

I still use the classic version mostly for creating Texture maps. I do all my mapping in Wings and now in 3DS Max. I've never used the pro version.

I use UVmapper constantly. Use it more times per day than I eat. Not quite as often as I breathe, but pretty damn close.

I've tried other UV progs. Ultimate Unwrap does ONE thing that UVmapper won't do, which is a mapping normal to each face of an object. But UU is hugely clumsy, so it only gets used for those peculiar situations.

Allthough it is a rather old program, it is still very powerfull. I use it very often to change materials and to make groups of exported marvelous design and Zbrush objects, and to correct smoothing, normals, bad facets and so on.

rokket posted at 6:15PM Wed, 12 July 2017 - #4307246

I still use the classic version mostly for creating Texture maps. I do all my mapping in Wings and now in 3DS Max. I've never used the pro version.

The same for my part., but without 3d Max

It is a great tool anybody must have installed.

I used to use UV Mapper Classic all the time until, like EClark, I started working in Blender.

Still using the Pro version.