pelt mapping

[Ruz]

I have been messing around with max 8 pelt mapping. i have had mixed results so far. I preferred the wings 3d version , but I don't enjoy the navigation controls in wings.
Part of me says that pelt mapping just a gimmick and doing it by hand is better.
What are your views on this.

[FatAssasin]

It's a gimmick and doing it by using the new Relax options is better. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[MoP]

I agree with FatAssasin. I just planar map the whole mesh, select all the edges that I want to be seams, hit CTRL-B in the UVW window to Break those edges, then just select all and do a Relax operation on it. Bingo, instant perfectly-scaled, distortion-free pieces.
I then go and tweak by hand to line things up and arrange to fit neatly.

[ElysiumGX]

Pelt mapping is a tedious process for a function that could be much more simple...such as Wings3D's method. I have my Wings3D navigation set to Maya, so switching from XSI and back gets confusing. So I prefer lots of manual planar, and cylinder mapping with relaxing in XSI. Sometimes walking on the mesh.

[jec1183]

I am going to have to agree that the relax function is what I use most of the time. The pelt mapping I find is only good for arms and legs. Anything with large amounts of structure that you want to keep relative to how you want to paint I would go with relax dialogue. I tried pelt mapping a whole head in max but it came out like crap. Instead I just made 4 pelt seems and did relax. Then just pieced them together and its perfect. Really the pelt mapping is twitchy but their relax dialogue makes up for it.

[CrazyButcher]

while I cant comment on max8, the wings3d/blender3d method was ported to max by me see:
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=69697&an=0&page=1#69697

I am looking forward to more feedback/bug reports...

[Rhinokey]

ise the pelt map JUST for its point to point seam selection features, after you make the seams, you just break out the new relax tools

[motives]

sry to bring back an old thread but is there a way to turn point to point seems into edge selections?

i just gotten around to try this and personally i think its awesome.. first time i actually thought it was fun to Unwrap /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[FatAssasin]

Not that I know of. It seems like a huge oversite that they would just keep this new way of selecting edges in the pelt mapping function only. Maybe with the service pack or version 9 they'll break it out to the rest of the program.

[Rhinokey]

the max 8 demo i saw a bit back before it was released, the demo guy mentioned that they will probably bring point to point selection into normal edit poly work flow someday soon

i hope so