What is Packing? New Blender 2.8+ UDIMs & UVpackmaster

[@lubruz7164]

I buyed this addon some time ago and is such a time saver, specially with the button of Validate UVs and Overlap Check. Great production workflow. Money very well spend.

[@321357w]

Very interesting news regarding the UDIM, thanks for the information.

[@icedriver2207]

Planning on buying this. Its just to useful.

[@pallogvinov1706]

Very useful video, thank you!

[@kritzstudio]

Thanks a lot for this video tutorial !!!, super clear!, greetings!

[@DeathxStrike18]

If your painting you arange the UV like you would as if the character was flat so you can quickly identify areas to paint in substance or photoshop, packmaster is for when you bake the textures for game optimization by using the most space without wasted space after painting.

[@theophileeyong787]

Love your stuff, bro! Really good tutorials!

Thanks Theo! I'm glad to help.

[@RuthwikRao]

Exciting times ahead! There was a recent free addon made for UDIMs specifically, but I forgot its name.

Yes, UDIMs are requested a lot for some reason ahah

[@Danilo_Castro]

Luis,seria de grande ajudar mostrar como trabalhar com as UDIMs usando esse add-on. Já uso ele a algum tempo e realmente é excelente. Por um preço bem justo. Tenho a versão Pro e uso ele no meu dia a dia.

[@hfcandrew]

Does blender allow 3D packing (nesting).

[@gower1973]

Udims are coming to Blender, I think it will be in 2.82, Ive already seen someone demo an experimental build, Its as simple clicking a button an getting an extra tiles to put the uv`s on etc

[@falxonPSN]

@Artisan what do you mean rebuild? Why would UDIM support require anything other than changes to UV unwrapping logic and UI?

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

@Artisan Most of the work is already done. Lukas Stockner said it would be done by 2.82 in the Developer's AMA at BCon2019. They don't need to rebuild anything, just update some of the drawing code and review a lot of the changes.

[@blendertutorialdotnet]

Thank You!

[@darcytaylor2442]

Really wish blender would adopt some of this stuff natively 8(

[@remon563]

what confuses me about UDIMS is this; does it affect the texture space size (1k,2k etc.?) ? does 4 UDIMS tiles on a 1k texture means it becomes a 4x1=2k texture ?

[@starwarz8479]

basically having udims, you're no long limited in 1 tile of UV sqaure for example if you need lots of hi-res detail in your texture, you might end up having a single 32k texture, which might be pretty slow to read, where if you have 8 tiles of 4k UV square textures, it would speed up the i/o in most 3d packages

[@starwarz8479]

and 4 tiles of 1k textures would be equivalent to the resolution of a single tile of a 4k texture

[@remon563]

@@starwarz8479 aha so the advantage is more that you can get higher texel density/ better organisation rather than an actual technical advantage (besides the loading of several 4k textures being faster than a single huge one). Now I understand why this is not used in games! in games any asset would never use a map higher then 4k for if they needed to they would use a combination of multiple tilable maps instead. Cheers!

[@theopayne2425]

tried buying on gumroad and it ask me for a shipping address... is this a physical product?

[@theopayne2425]

why do they need shipping address ?

hmm, I dont know what method you choose, but I suggest contacting Glukoz (the developer) directly.