As I have mentioned before, the tool uses native Maya commands to perform many of its tasks.

Problem at the moment, is that if Undo become unlimited, then using this tool can eat up lots of memory. Because Maya stores all the command the uv tool uses in the undo queue.

I have noticed in the past that if you use 32bit Maya in 32bit OS, Maya tends to crash around using 1.2GB of memory (due to undo). This sudden crash of Maya was last thing you want when you are working with Maya so the preventation has been enforced to make sure this doesn’t happen.

However, having said that, lots of lots more people are now using PC with more memory and 64bit , I might increase the number to something like 200 to start to give realistic enough undo numbers.

I may even add option to disable the undo limit all together. I am planning to do this around at the end of this month.

Hi Everyone.

Apology to those who couldn’t get version 1.14 working. I found bug in my installer which caused Maya module file to be bugged. This has now been fixed in version 1.15

Please uninstall old version, delete any related Cas_autoUnfold folders and install version 1.15

Version 1.15
Fixed bugged installer. (sorry!)
Increased default undo from 7 to 10 and max to 30

I am going to adjust the undo numbers for 64bit versions as it seems to handle higher number of undos better than 32bit version.
Also, if you are having problems with this tool and wants some help with it, please send me email instead leaving comments without registering your email address. I would rather trouble shoot through email conversation than on the comments on the page.

Thanks!

Hi everyone.

Here is a minor update of uv mapper tool , following requests to support maya 2012×64 version.

No 32bit support yet thou. I need to get hold of API for that somehow.

Auto uv mapper has been updated to version 1.02 Enjoy!

Cas autoUnfold UV mapping tool version 1.02

version 1.0.2
Date : 6th Jan 2010

Maximum Relax number has increased to 200 by the requests. Please becareful using high number of iterations and undo.

More clear button name for shell and Selected.

Relax Whole Shell = relaxes uv shell that belongs to the current selection. So even if you select just one face/uv etc of that uvshell it will work on that whole uvshell.

Relax Selected Components = perform relax on the selected components only. This is the same as Relax Whole Shell if your selection is the shell itself.

Update of Cas auto UV mapper to 1.01 released!

Undo options are now saved and restored upon closing. (Thanks Destro for makeing me keep looking for the solution)

Windows UI does not relaunch itself when it already exists

Enjoy!

Update:

version 1.0 has finally been released! Nothing much as been changed since released candidate D so , if you don’t want to bother, then you don’t need this version.

check out the autouvmapper page for full description!

http://www.castorlee.com/maya-tools/auto-uv-mapper

Update : thanks for all the help guys, this tool is now at release candidate D and if there are no more major bugs, I will release version 1.0 officially at the end of this week.

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At last, version 1.0 is upon us and I have been working for few days to get this sorted out.

If you like, here is chance to try version 1.0_beta testing version before they get released to the other portal sites.

As I have said before, from version 1.0 all you have to do is run the installer to get everything setup.

then in Maya just run mel command :

Cas_APU;

before you install this version please delete all files related to the old version.

If you find any bug or suggestions, please let me know.

You will still need to install python win32com extension if you want to use save photoshop path function, but if you have done it already, then you are ok.

Cas_autoUnfold-1.0-Setup_beta.zip

I am going to make a video tutorial for all new functions I have introduced in this version soon. But feel free to experiment with the new tools and let me know what you guys think. Also contact me if you find them difficult to understand how to use them.

Version 0.43 now supports most of other known Maya 2008 and 2009 versions.

Maya 2008, Maya 2008 extension 1 , Maya 2008 2008 extension 2 , and all corresponding x64 versions

Maya 2009, Maya 2009 service pack 1 , Maya 2009 service pack 1a , and all corresponding x64 versions

- Minor update with few issues about Roadkill.exe location.
- Minor UI issue fixed (too short on some other language windows)
- Fixed issue with ABF and LSCM function distorts uvs for very small objects or scene with millimeter unit settings.
- Fixed Major bug with ABF and LSCM not working with non default uvset.
- Better Maya version check and support : Maya 2009 service pack 1 , Maya 2009 service pack 1a , and Maya 2008 extension 1 and all their corresponding 64bit versions.

Coming soon:

version 1.00

Belt mapping (this is cool)
Match UV along U or V direction
Photoshop Path export support for 64bit version of Maya
UI update
Installer ?

I welcome any suggestions or feature requests!

Someone has pointed out that I am missing initial command that I need to run before all of my Python scripts to be able to run properly.

import maya.cmds as cmds

How did I miss it? I have it running automatically when Maya starts and I have honestly, completely forgot about it.

So I apologise to those who tried my scripts and had hard time running it.

Please run above command in your Python script editor before running any of my tools written in Python.

Also updated UV checker texture layer plugin and auto uv mapper plugin to include any dependency for the plugin. Updated for Maya 2008 extension 2 64 bit and 2009 64 bit

Are you a character artists? A rigger? Do you need to make LOD model of your character?

Check this out! you won’t regret it!

Cas mass copy weight tool added to Maya tools section.