Blender Addons for UV unwrapping and UV packing

today we're gonna talk about five of the blender add-ons that you can use to make the process of making and organizing uv islands much faster and easier whether it be for video game assets or high quality visual effects and animation this video is brought to you by sketchfab a platform for buying and selling 3d models online their store has a lot of high quality models to choose from using a great model inspector links in the description number five textuals it is a collection of tools that helps any texture artist with uv and texture related tasks the main philosophy is to shorten the typical steps into simple context sensitive single clicks text tools add-on it comes with simple size tools uv layout tools selection tools textile density tools and it can do texture baking as well this tool is really good for uv wrapping if you need something that allows for quick and fast uving and this tool is free by the way you can download it from github number four textual density checker this blender add-on can be used to solve a simple but serious problem when creating uvs in 3d software in general when creating uvs you need to keep the aspect ratio between uv islands accurate otherwise the textures will not look perfect nor with the same details this add-on helps you to do that with the different features it has you can use the textile density checker to calculate the density of the model for different texture sizes between 512 pixels and 4069 pixels or with the custom size and aspect ratio you choose you can also use the interactive checker material to see what is going on when trying to check the textual density in addition to having the ability to copy textual density from active to selected objects also you can visualize the textual density with vertex colors and uv islands with random vertex colors as well this add-on is free and you can download it from github or gum road number three is zen uv zenuv is another add-on that combines a set of tools that can be used for creating fast uvs in blender its tools are intuitive and can help you do some complex uv unwrapping tasks with ease some of the most important features that comes with this add-on include smart zen unrap operator that allows you to unwrap your model by marked edges and packing uv islands after that also a powerful marking system that helps you mark seams automatically by angle by existing uv borders and manually as well in addition to the quadrify islands operator to strengthen rectangular shaped uv islands and you can even use a different uv packing engines such as uv pack master with zen uv add-on you can find this blender add-on on the blender market number two uv pack master when you use this add-on you will realize it is one of the most efficient uv packing solutions for blender because it is very fast and uses both cpu and cuda gpus as well at the same time so if you have a strong cpu and a strong gpu you will be able to pack uv super fast with maximum efficiency the secret behind uv pack master is that it uses an algorithm that gives the packing process an enormous performance boost outperforming other uv packing solutions the most interesting thing about this add-on performance is not just time saving only even though packing complex uvs in real time is nice the great efficiency of the algorithm equips the add-on with much more powerful abilities that prove to be useful when working on your 3d assets you can find this add-on on gumroad number one uv toolkit uv toolkit is an add-on that has a set of tools for fast and high quality uv creation within blender it comes with a lot of features that make the process of creating uvs faster and easier for example you can strengthen the uvs using alignment tools you can do this on both the x and y axis and you can do it with angles and vertices in addition to islands as well you can also control the orientation and rotation of the eye lines and edges to be able to arrange them in a certain way in addition to having the ability to stack different islands on top of each other or and stack them and set the distance between them as well in the same vein you can also match similar islands and make them identical there are also interesting features like the ability to check crossing ud borders in addition to having customizable pie menus that enable you to add and remove tools that work best for you you can find this add-on on the blender market i hope you found this video useful and informative if you have something to add you can leave it in the comment section below also you can check some of our previous videos thank you very much and i'll see you in the next one you

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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020