MultiMap [no longer maintained]

greetings, is this tool still available? it is not found on the developers website. anyone have this still? thanks!

Adding that would be great. And I'd rather the UVW xform modifier to change/randomise the UV's as opposed to manipulation of the UVW Map gizmo anyway. Look forward to the update.

This tool doesn't allow to randomly move, scale UV's after you unwrap them. If it did then it would be awesome. The UVW xform is slow having to modify each object separately.

I'd be very grateful if this could be implemented. Thanks.

Sorry Stephen, Transform only works in nodes with an UVWmap modifier applied.

As far as I know, there is no exposed method to maxscript to manipulate uvw coordinates (at least not one that doesn't require a lot of low-level programming...)
the Best I can do, is to add an option for adding individual UVW Xform modifiers in a single step.

Regards!

I will look foward for the error, I must forgot something...  I just updated the script with the fix.

I understand what you say about Gizmo oriented to face normal, but cince aligment options for UVWmaps isn't exposed to maxscripts, the only way its to recreate it, it can be done, but its a lot of work.

Hi Ariel, finally you did! All new features sounds great, but I have some questions

I can't use Advanced Transforms. APPLY, FIT and CENTER send me and error (see attached)

When you work with select faces, scripts put one uvw fitted for all select faces. It can be useful, of course, but I think would be good an option to put an individual uvw in each face oriented to its z normal

Less important. In Map Dimension I have 100m by default, I see in your capture 1m and it would be right. 100m or 10000cm seems to be too high for default number

Thanks!

Very nice Ariel, I think you can add two things and you would have a perfect all in one for rapid uvs.

First, randomize parameters. Transform, rotate, scale. There are some nice scripts here and maybe you can implement code fastly. For rotate, aleatory valours from a degree to other, but would be useful you can put fixed valours. For example. 90, -90, 180, -180... and random only take this valours.

Second, work in suboject level. Polygon or element. Now is easy detach all element, run your script and then attach elements, but an all in one would be great ;)

By the way, if you can leave all as you have, for me is a very useful script

Thanks

Hi vividini!.
Like to hear the tool it's useful to you. I've partially implemented element subselection, and you random transformations its a nice suggestion. I itend to add too an option for random select appli ID's to elements too.
I will leave this script at it is, and relase a full featura one, hopefully soon.

Greets.

Very nice Ariel! Waiting for see new features and probably suggest more things ;)

a "use real scale" checkbox would be great too! I use this most of the time.

thanks for your effort.

best regards
themaxxer

Thanks.
Well,yes think I can add it. But, i'm curious, I never found real-world mapping to be useful or to work correctly, but it seems its just me XD.

I find real scale very useful, because you set the dimension of a map in the bitmap itself. so you can apply different materials with complex bitmap setups (each bitmap with other dimension) to your model with one UVW map. you don't need uvw 1 channel 1 dimension 100x100, uvw 2 channel 2 dimension 200x200, etc.

best regards
themaxxer

Added Real world scale feature you asked for, also, some bugfixes, hope it will be useful.

An option to fit uvwmaps in each object would be great

Hi.
When you apply a Map without setting dimensions, the gizmo its automatically fitted, but the methods for fitting, centering, etc aren't exposed to maxscript for implementing in script. However, there is already a script here (Fit the UVW Mapping Gizmo from Anubis) that reproduces the fit functionality, but seems to not properly center the gizmo. The solution explained here http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/mxs9/uvwgizmofit/index.html has a centering function, but I was't hable to make it work in all cases, aparently max do strange things when you move/scale etc the uvw map gizmo and i can't get it to work, if someone has a solution, i will add it to the script.

"When you apply a Map without setting dimensions, the gizmo its automatically fitted"

So great¡¡ for me is very useful in this way

Thanks¡

What drives me nuts in 3ds Max is absence of 'lock to the bitmap proportions' feature. Could it be made at least via script (of yours, for example ;))?

Yes, it could be easy to do, I will add it to the script, thanks for the suggestion