Transfer UVs from one object to another

[Anonymous]

I know Maya has this and it works pretty well. Is there a similar tool in 2011?

[Anonymous]

yeah that very painful inside of max... so you have to map things before cloning 😞

anyway many guys lately were complaining about mapping inside of max... it's time to redesign things hoping they don't just thought new features instead of upgrading it
i guess headus UVLayout has a good features there

[Anonymous]

One can do it like this; (see attachment) select object 1, press “Acquire” in the UWV menu, click on object 2 and hit “OK”; Object 3 is the result of the action.
(Object 2 is the one whose coordinate you need to transfer.)

ivan

[timd1971]

or drag the UVW Wrap modifier from the stack of the object that already has the source mapping, to the new object that does not?

[blakestone]

You can add "Unwramp UVW" modifier to your object this click "Edit" > "File" > "Save UVs" which will save this to (*.uvw) file. You can then load this file onto any object.

[Anonymous]

You mean objects with the same topology or just same shape but different topology?

[Anonymous]

Use projection modifier

[Anonymous]

yeah that very painful inside of max… so you have to map things before cloning 😞

anyway many guys lately were complaining about mapping inside of max… it’s time to redesign things hoping they don’t just thought new features instead of upgrading it
i guess headus UVLayout has a good features there.

It would appear by reading this thread that there are many ways to map objects inside of 3ds Max, & I for one would not like to see it changed; however, I'm not opposed to a better, or easier solution. Basically I think it just comes down to the knowledge of the individual.

[peter.mcmullan]

OMG, I ve been using max since V2.5 and I didnt know u could drag from the stack to the viewport........

Thanks for that

[timd1971]

I think u can use the CHANNEL INFO also? Copy paste uv information.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all for the advice. Basically the Maya versions is transfer attributes UVs. So imagine you have a highpoly to low poly or vice versa it can retain the UVs even if the topology is different or get it pretty close.

[spacefrog_ · Accepted solution]

this is done via the projection modifier. It projects UV's from one mesh onto another one, even if they have different mesh topology

[gergely.kissL7WVQ]

Let us know how you do that!