Users of Autodesk’s 3dsMax who find themselves spending a lot of their time dealing with texture and UV layouts, have a new tool in their arsenal via a plugin named ‘UV-Packer’ which has just hit version 1.1.
UV-Packer automatically redistributes all UV charts in a UV map for optimal fit. Do you often find yourself spending a lot of time to rearrange charts generated by pelting or do you need to modify UV maps because the proportions of the UV space or the size of the required padding have changed?
UV-Packer does it with a single click of a button.
It can also rescale the separate UV charts depending on the mesh surface area to even out the pixel distribution across different parts of the mesh.
The plugin is compatible with 3dsMax 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 3dsMAX 9. They offer a free trial download good for 30 uses, and the full version retails for 79 €.
