Pixologic releases free UV Master Plugin for ZBrush

While ZBrush excels as soft body and organic modeling, unwrapping these models for UV Texturing can be tricky.  Pixologic acknowledges this and has just released a new free plugin called ‘UV Master’  that makes UV Unwrapping a 1-click affair.

With UV Master’s cutting-edge technology you can leave all the technical work to the computer. Because the UV maps generated by the plugin can be in one UV island you will be able to understand your modelís UVs in any 2D image editor and paint or edit them like you would do with manually unwrapped UVs. Amazingly, what needs mere minutes with UV Master could take hours in other dedicated solutions! Just load your model, click Unwrap and you’re done!

If the automatic process is just too convenient for you, you can use other new tools for more manual controls of seams.  Alltogether, a must-have addition to ZBrush.

via Pixologic :: ZBrush :: UV Master.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .