The Maya Toolbelt - Sew UV Tool

A tutorial going over the Sew UV Tool in Maya 2016!
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[@mrhollywood5285]

OK I'll check out that video and give it a try. Thanks for the input. Cheers MR H

[@mrhollywood5285]

Hi Michael: "Or do you mean you were trying to put, for example, the fins together?" Yes. I tried the resizing of the circle, trying to grab the necessary parts but they seemed to go all WONKY. Cheers MR H

[@mayatoolbelt]

Yes, they did in my demo too. That's expected in this case. It's been a little while, but maybe take a look at my Introduction to UVs video as it talks about how UVs work in general (kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2i8m2ijo7yJasU). But in any case, you can't just sew any two edges together. Only edges that are linked can be sewn. Maybe I should create an addendum video to explain this better. But I'll try. In the Intro to UVs video, I used a wolfman model as the example. In that video, the wolfman's head UVs were split into a left and right side. The edge loop that ran along the middle of the model's face was a SHARED edge of the two UV shells that made up the head. In the video, I hovered over one of the vertices in the middle of the head and a UV on BOTH shells highlighted. This indicted that those two points were the same vertex. They shared an edge at that spot in the UVs. So, in order to sew UVs together, they must be SHARED edges. The reason the professional artist who created the dolphin in this video laid out the fins in different positions in the UV editor was because it would look all wonky if he didn't! I hope that helped somewhat. -Michael

[@mrhollywood5285]

So it seems that you can only SEW edges that have been CUT. I went through the UV videos and I can't seem to find how to join edges together. Have you touched on the subject yet? Cheers MR H

[@mayatoolbelt]

Whenever you create an object, it has UVs already applied. As you model something, by extruding, splitting, tweaking, etc. it eventually becomes necessary to "remap" the object's UVs. To do this, you would project UVs onto the model. There are several ways to do this. I've gone over one way in my Planar Mapping video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ-cmIaLhM94ZpY which allows you to map UVs with a "projection from plane" method. A good starting point for a complex model might be to simply Automatically Project the UVs, which is an option within the UV menu. I do intend to go over more of these UV mapping commands after the current UV Editor tools series.

[@mrhollywood5285]

Hi Mike. I tried your demo, but when I tried to join other parts it was very difficult. I used the Dolphin. Is there something I'm missing. Cheers MR H

[@mayatoolbelt]

hmm, so, after cutting a line of UVs, they wouldn't sew back together? Or do you mean you were trying to put, for example, the fins together?

[@josephemmanuel3947]

My doubt is if the sew tool is a new update of maya 2016, then what tool is used for sewing uv edges together in previous maya versions?

[@mayatoolbelt]

It was still the sew tool, it was updated is all.

[@josephemmanuel3947]

Your videos on uv texturing tools helped me a lot. I'm so grateful and thanks a lot, also can you suggest any video/website link to know about different maps (Normal map, specularity map, occlusion map, displacement map) and their usage?