Unfolding UV's

[iMatt95]

Hi everyone,

I am running into some issues with UV mapping in maya. I am basically trying to take the mesh shown in the lefthand side, unwrap properly. What is shown in the righthand side is a simple Normal-Based unwrapping. 

I was able to accomplish this in a different software and got this result.

Does anybody have any suggestions? This seems like a pretty straightforward thing to do but I'm not sure what is going on. 

Cheers!

[_sebastian_f]

select uv´s (in uv editor) modify > unfold and modify > layout if necessary.

[iMatt95]

Hi Sebastian, I was unable to make this method work (probably something to do with the way I modeled it) but I did find a workaround to the problem. I was able to import the fbx with the uv layout that I wanted (the same one as above). 

Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it!