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Questions tagged [uv]

UV mapping is the process of taking a three-dimensional mesh (X, Y and Z coordinates) and unwrapping it to a flat two-dimensional image (U and V coordinates), in order to texture the 3D model with 2D images. Use this tag for questions pertaining to UV's and UV mapping.

U and V refer to texture-space coordinates, opposed to the usual X, Y and Z coordinates, which refer to 3D-space.

UV mapping on the Blender Manual and Wikipedia

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How to get perfect UV sphere Mercator projection?

I'm trying to unwrap a UV Sphere and I can't seem to get a perfect Mercator projection. What process should I follow to get a perfect UV unwrap that looks like the black grid lines in this image?:
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Separate selected UV map vertices from surrounding vertices

How do I break the selected UV map from its surrounding vertices?
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How can I delete a UV unwrapping to start again?

I unwrapped everything automatically and it endend up being really bad for painting. How can I delete the unwrapping and start again?
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How do I straighten UV maps?

How can I straighten ALL the vertical UV lines at once? Is there a hot keyshort cut? Or if I have to do them one by one .. is there at shortcut for that? Thank you!
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Unwrap UV map proportionally to object size

Is there any way to automatically unwrap UV map proportionally to object or "world" size? For example: I've made two cubes, one is two times bigger than other (scale is applied). Then I unwrapped texture with Smart UV project which will try to span…
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Combining UV maps

Is there a way of combining two or more small UV maps into one larger map? I seem to recall that there was a function in 2.4x that did this (I think it was called consolidate UV's or similar) Making everything you want into one object, unwrapping…
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Can I paint a texture within the UV viewport?

Is there a way to draw something within the UV viewport and not the 3d viewport?
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Is there a way to show distribution of UVs as a heat map?

I was wondering if there's an option in blender like that of UV unfold, to be able to see a "heatmap" for UV distribution like red for stretching and blue for too close UVs. I am quite clear of the workflow in UV editor but this is something I have…
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When to use Conformal vs Angle Based when UV unwrapping?

When should you use the conformal method verses the defualt angle based method when UV unwrapping? What difference do they make?
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Non-Uniform Scaling during UV unwrap. What is this?

I've got a problem while unwrapping UVs. When I'm unwrapping UVs it showing me this message. Why is this happening?
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Why do similar UV islands rotate differently when unwrapped?

I have a simple model that is symmetrical on the Y axis. When I unwrap it, with the entire model selected the two identical sides do not share the same rotation: If I de-select the middle UV island (the long band of quads) and unwrap, I get a more…
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How to rename UVs of all the objects?

I am working with multiple objects that have different UV names, I would like to know if there is a quick solution for renaming UVs of all the objects to UVMap
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how to fix "object has no uniform scale"?

I try to unwrap uv on first ever 3d model i made in blender which is Baymax., then that message shows up in upper right corner of screen. The uv map looks so grotesque. I already tried remove double but nothing changed. Help me pls. Thanks. Im…
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Adding UV Mapping to Mesh

I am trying to apply an image to a wavy mesh I created in Blender. I am not sure how to do this. I don't think I have any seams because its one panel so I tried just unwrapping which didn't work. Then I tried marking the edges as seams but this also…
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How can I unwrap each face separately so it takes up the whole picture?

I want to unwrap each face of my model so that it takes up the whole picture, instead of this: I want all of them to look like this: I don't want to do it manually. Can anyone help?
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