Texturetools.com - Tr-UV - it looks pretty good - but does it work??? Anyone try it out?

link?

Attached Link: http://www.texturetools.com/download.shtml

I tried it. I bought it. It may be great, but I feel like I wasted $79.00. I should have bought UVMapper Pro instead. It does work, but I really wish you could select vertices by materials. That would solve almost all of my frustration with it. I'll still use it and I'm still new to it. I may change my mind later, but for now I can't recommend it. It does get tied to your PC, so if you end up having to reinstall it for any reason, you must get a new unlock code. And as I understand it, the code will be different even if it is put on the same PC. And they weren't fast getting it to me, which meant I could only use it in demo mode for a while.

I have it, and I also feel I wasted my money. The company has some of the poorest tech support I have ever experienced. Marque

There is another Free UV mapper I use, which I find handy to have and is quite good is "Lithunwrap"(win only). You can download it at: http://www.geocities.com/lithunwrap/ It has the following features. * OpenGL 3D model viewer. * Easy to use UV coordinate editor. * UV maps get updated in real-time. * Assign materials per face to objects. * Pan and zoom in UV mapping space. * Export UV maps to high resolution bitmaps. * Soft, polygonal and rectangle selection tools. * Assign diffuse and opacity texture maps to materials. * Decal, planar, box, cylindrical, and spherical UV mapping. * Distortion free UV maps using detached face mapping. * Auto-generates UV mapping for tube and torus primitives. * Import/export LWO, OBJ, DXF, 3DS, ASC, COB, and X files. * Import many popular game file formats. * Import textures in BMP, TGA, JPG, PCX, DDS, TEX, OGF,LIF, MAT and RSB formats. *Create plane, box, cone, cylinder, sphere, geosphere, pyramid, prism, tube, torus, and 3D text primitives. *Includes a basic set of 3D modelling tools: moving, scaling,rotating, subdividing, aligning, extruding, bevelling, flipping, tapering, twisting, flattening, mirroring, triangulating, and untriangulating. *Runs under Win 95/98/ME/2K/XP (OpenGL on NT w/SP4) Dale MacMullin

got a gripe about lith-unwrap it dials the internet when you start it! I have to stop it when I use it..I dont like anything dialing out for any reason! BT

I have nver noticed the program dialing out...perhaps your confused with another program.

Easiest way to tell is to install ZoneAlarm from zonelabs.com - a great free firewall. When anything tries to access the internet, it will ask you per application if you want to let it. DonnyD www.donnyd.com

nope its this program. I can never run it without it starting my internet connection and transferring 32000bytes of info. (let it do it once just so I could block the ip with my firewall)..so even tho it tries to connect, it cant. BT

Really, I didn't know this BT... I will have to check it out, and thanks for the tip on the firewall Donny. Thanks

LOL. :) No, Lithunwrap does not dial the internet.

IMHO, your file associations are f**ked up. Some programs like to change them. But, since Lithunwrap is basically a "install it yourself" program, it means somebody else did it. Either you are running the program from the desktop, or you are clicking on the .exe file directly from the Windows Explorer. Try both ways to run the program. If that doesn't fix the problem, then your file associations with .exe files are probably screwed up on your computer. Look at my computer. I click on a .jpg file, and MS Internet Explorer starts up. Does that mean something strange is going on? No, that's where the file association for my .jpg files points to.

Microsoft made Internet Explorer the default viewer for JPEG and GIF files. On my PC, for some reason ZoneAlarm has LithUnwrap listed as a program that has attempted to connect to the Internet. But it has never caught LithUnwrap in the act of actually connecting, although I have it flagged to do so. Odd.

I can click ANY other file and not have it try to connect to the internet. Simply opening a file with internet explorer does not mean my internet connection will become active. I just did it again to check it..and it DOES START MY INTERNET CONNECTION. Its in the same folder area as many other exe files. I even moved it to a different folder...where others exist and it still attempts to start my internet connection. So, even tho it may not be supposed to do it, it does. I ctrl/alt/del the entire system and tried that too. IT STILL TRIED TO CONNECT. No way I can be told its not lithunwrap thats starting the connection. cant blame it on the opengl either because all my other opengl programs dont do this. I nosed around the folder it is in and there is a file in the folder for troubleshooting that is absolutely stuffed with all the information about my system...oddly enuff, its the same size that was transmitted the time I actually let it do it. I dont have any problems with the thing so this shouldnt be there. I imagine this is the file that is trying to be transmitted. at any rate, I dont use it because Im not alone at this happening. shrug Dont get me wrong, lithunwrap is a great program, but I personally am not using something that tries to connect the internet...or even makes me think its doing so. BT

Attached Link: http://www.sygate.com/swat/products/shield_ov.htm

unwrap.log is just the debug file.
unwrap.ini is the configuration file.

Both are for your own purposes. I use Lithunwrap all
the time, both on dialup connection and off, and have
had no problems.

Believe me, something else is triggering your dialup connection
to launch, and this is totally unrelated to the program
you are trying to run.

BTW, I would dump Zone Alarm for Sysgate Personal Firewall.

It's free and the reviews I've read say it's the best
one out there.