Magic UV

Activation

  • Open Blender and go to Preferences then the Add-ons tab.

  • Click UV then Magic UV to enable the script.

Interface – Інтерфейс

Located in the 3D Viewport ‣ Sidebar ‣ Edit and UV Editor ‣ Sidebar ‣ Magic UV.

Instructions

Copy/Paste UV

3D Viewport (Edit)

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Copy and paste UV coordinates among same/different object’s faces in 3D View. Copy/Paste UV sometimes fails to paste UV correctly because of the incorrect UV index. Instead, you can try Transfer UV which you can copy and paste based on the topology.

Target UV Map
Default – Стандарт

Copy/paste UV maps currently displayed.

All – Усе

Copy/Paste all UV maps.

New – Нове

Allocate new UV map and paste to it.

Copy/Paste Mode
Selection Sequence

provides a way to specify the ordering of copied/pasted faces by face selection.

Seams – Шви

If enabled, you can also copy/paste seams.

Strategy

Provides a way to decide copy/paste UV repeatedly if a number of copied faces is differs from pasted faces.

Порада

You can flip or rotate UV by changing Flip Copied UV property or Rotate Copied UV property.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Copy/Paste UV to show Copy/Paste UV menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to copy.

  3. Click Copy ‣ (Target UV Map).

  4. Select faces whoe UV you want to paste.

  5. Click Paste ‣ (Target UV Map)`.

3D Viewport (Object)

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Object – Об’єкт

Menu – Меню

Object ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Copy and paste UV coordinates among same topology objects.

Copy/Target UV Map
[Default]

Copy/paste UV maps currently displayed.

[All]

Copy/Paste all UV maps.

[New]

Allocate new UV map and paste to it.

Seams – Шви

If enabled, you can also copy/paste seams.

Usage – Використання

  1. Select object whose UV you want to copy.

  2. Click Copy ‣ (Target UV Map).

  3. Select objects whose UV you want to paste.

  4. Click Paste ‣ (Target UV Map).

Порада

You can paste UV to the multiple objects.

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV

Copy and paste UV coordinates among same/different object’s faces in UV Editor.

Usage – Використання

  1. Select UVs you want to copy.

  2. Click Copy.

  3. Select UVs you want to paste.

  4. Click Paste.

Примітка

You must select UVs which consist closed loop (i.e. face).

Transfer UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Transfer UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Copy/Paste UV ‣ Transfer UV

Copy and paste UV coordinates based on the mesh’s topology. Transfer UV can solve the Copy/Paste UV issue raised when the meshes don’t have same UV indices. However, Transfer UV also can not solve the issue raised when you try the meshes which don’t have same topology.

Invert Normals

If enabled, you can copy/paste to the mirrored mesh.

Seams – Шви

If enabled, you can also copy/paste seams.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Transfer UV to show Transfer UV menu.

  2. Select 2 adjacent faces of the mesh whose UV you want to copy.

  3. Click Copy.

  4. Select 2 adjacent faces of the mesh whose UV you want to paste.

  5. Click Paste.

Примітка

  • Copied/Pasted mesh must have the same number of faces.

  • Transfer UV ignore the hidden faces.

  • You can paste UV to the multiple meshes.

Flip/Rotate UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Flip/Rotate UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Flip/Rotate UV

Flip or rotate UV.

Seams – Шви

If enabled, you can also flip/rotate seams.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Flip/Rotate UV to show Flip/Rotate UV menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to flip or rotate.

  3. Click Flip/Rotate.

  4. Change value Flip UV or Rotate UV.

Mirror UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Mirror UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Mirror UV

Make mirrored UV.

Error – Помилка

Changes the error threshold for mirror.

Origin – Початок

Specifies the origin of the mirror operation.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Mirror UV to show Mirror UV menu.

  2. Select faces you want to refer.

  3. Choose the axis of the mirror direction.

  4. Click Mirror.

Move UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Move UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Move UV

Move UV with a mouse in the 3D Viewport.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Move UV to show Move UV menu.

  2. Select vertices/edges/faces whose UV you want to move.

  3. Click Start.

  4. Press Mouse Left Button to start moving UV.

  5. You can move UV with mouse.

  6. Press Mouse Left Button to stop moving UV.

If you want to cancel moving UV, press RMB.

World Scale UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ World Scale UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ World Scale UV

Measure and set texel density.

Texture – Текстура

Texture to be used for the size calculation of density.

[Average]

Average size of textures assigned to the selected object.

[Max]

Max size of textures assigned to the selected object.

[Min]

Min size of textures assigned to the selected object.

(Texture Name)

Size of selected texture.

Origin – Початок

Changes the UV origin after applying texel density.

Area Calculation Method

Method to calculate mesh area, UV area and density.

Only Selected – Лише Вибране

If enabled, measure/apply only to the selected faces.

Mode: Manual

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box World Scale UV to show World Scale UV menu.

  2. Select mode Manual.

  3. Change value Texture Size referred as virtual texture size.

  4. Change value Density referred as target texel density.

  5. Select face you want to apply texel density.

  6. Click Apply.

Mode: Same Density

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box World Scale UV to show World Scale UV menu.

  2. Select mode Same Density.

  3. Select face you want to measure a texel density.

  4. Click Measure.

  5. You can see the target texel density.

  6. Select face you want to apply texel density.

  7. Click Apply.

Mode: Scaling Density

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box World Scale UV to show World Scale UV menu.

  2. Select mode Scaling Density.

  3. Select face you want to measure a texel density.

  4. Click Measure.

  5. You can see the measured texel density.

  6. Change value Scaling Factor for the scale factor of the texel density.

  7. Select face you want to apply texel density.

  8. Click Apply.

Mode: Proportional to Mesh

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box World Scale UV to show World Scale UV menu.

  2. Select mode Proportional to Mesh.

  3. Select face you want to measure a texel density.

  4. Click Measure.

  5. You can see the measured mesh area, UV area and density.

  6. Select face you want to apply texel density.

  7. Click Apply.

Preserve UV Aspect

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Preserve UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Preserve UV Aspect

Change assigned texture with preserving UV aspect.

Origin – Початок

Changes the UV origin after changing texture.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Preserve UV Aspect to show Preserve UV Aspect menu.

  2. Select face you want to change texture.

  3. Select texture you want to assign.

  4. Click Change Image.

Texture Lock

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Texture Lock

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Texture Lock

Preserve UV while you edit the mesh.

Normal Mode

Connect – З’єднання

If enabled, you can keep UV connection by changing other face’s UV.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Texture Lock to show Texture Lock menu.

  2. Select vertices/edges/faces which you want to preserve UV.

  3. Click Lock.

  4. Transform vertices/edges/faces as you like.

  5. Click Unlock, you can return to the UV before locking.

Interactive Mode

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Texture Lock to show Texture Lock menu.

  2. Select vertices/edges/faces which you want to preserve UV.

  3. Click Lock.

  4. Transform vertices/edges/faces while preserving UV.

  5. Click Unlock.

Texture Wrap

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Texture Wrap

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Texture Wrap

Set texture coordinate along to the mesh structure.

Set and Refer

If enabled, you don’t need to click Refer after Set as long as you refer same face.

Selection Sequence

If enabled, you can select multiple faces and apply Set at once. The application order follows the selection sequence.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Texture Wrap to show Texture Wrap menu.

  2. Select a face whose UV you want to refer as initial position.

  3. Click Refer.

  4. Select an adjacent face whose UV you want to set.

  5. Click Set.

UV Sculpt

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ UV Sculpt

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ UV Sculpt

UV Sculpt in the 3D Viewport. Same features are supported as the UV sculpt in UV Editor.

Radius – Радіус

Provides a way to change the brush radius.

Strength – Сила

Provides a way to change the effectiveness.

Tools – Засоби
Grab – Захоп

Move UV along to the mouse movement while you press Mouse Left Button.

Relax – Розслаблення

Relax UV while you press Mouse Left Button.

Method – Метод

Provides a way to change the relax method.

Pinch – Прищемлення

Pinch UV while you press Mouse Left Button.

Invert – Інверт

If enabled, the direction of pinch will be inverted.

Show Brush

If enabled, display the brush’s effective range while sculpting.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UV Sculpt to show UV Sculpt menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to sculpt.

  3. Click Enable.

  4. Sculpt UV as you like (See detail each tool’s usage).

  5. Click Disable.

Unwrap Constraint

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Unwrap Constraint

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Mapping ‣ Unwrap Constraint

Unwrap UV with an axis fixed.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Unwrap Constraint to show Unwrap Constraint menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to unwrap.

  3. Enable or disable U-Constraint property and V-constraint property to fix axis while unwrapping.

  4. Click Unwrap.

Texture Projection

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ Texture Projection

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Mapping ‣ Texture Projection

Project the texture to the mesh while displaying texture image in 3D View.

Transparency – Прозорість

Provides a way to change transparency of the displayed texture.

Adjust Window

If enabled, size of the displayed texture is adjusted to the window.

Scaling, Rotation, Translation

Provide a way to apply the affine transformation to the displayed texture. Available when Adjust Window is disabled.

Texture Aspect Ratio

If enabled, keep the original aspect of the displayed texture.

Assign UV Map

If enabled, assign new UV map when no UV is assigned to the mesh.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Texture Projection to show Texture Projection menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to apply Texture Projection.

  3. Select a texture to be projected.

  4. Click Enable to display the texture.

  5. Adjust texture size and the mesh location to decide the location of projection.

  6. Click Project to project texture to UV.

  7. Click Disable.

UVW

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

3D Viewport – 3D Оглядвікно

Mode – Режим

Edit – Редагування

Menu – Меню

UV ‣ UVW

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Edit ‣ UV Mapping ‣ UVW

UVW mapping.

Assign UV Map

If enabled, assign new UV map when no UV is assigned to the mesh.

Force Axis – Вісь Сили

Specifies the axis to apply force mapping.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UVW to show UVW menu.

  2. Select faces you want to apply UVW mapping.

  3. Click Box if you apply Box mapping, or click Best Planner if you apply Best Planner mapping.

Align UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Align UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Align UV

Align – Вирівняння

Align UV.

Circle – Коло

Selects all the outermost UVs and aligns them to a round shape.

Straighten – Випрямлення

Selects the endmost UVs and aligns them to a straight line between begin UV and end UV.

XY-axis

Selects the endmost UVs and aligns them to a straight line along to X or Y axis.

Align Location

In case of XY-axis alignment, you can change the location (Middle, Right/Bottom, Left/Top) after UV alignment.

Transmission – Пропускання

Align UVs with vertical direction.

Select – Вибір

The aligned UVs will be selected after operation.

Vertical – Вертикально

Align UVs to vertical direction with using the influence of mesh vertex location.

Horizontal – Горизонтально

Align UVs to horizontal direction with using influence of mesh vertex location.

Mesh Influence

Provides a way to change the influence of mesh structure.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Align UV to show Align UV menu.

  2. Select UVs you want to align (see details below).

  3. Click Circle or Straighten or XY-axis depending on your purpose.

Snap – Підхоп

Snap UV coordinates to the specified location.

Snap Method
Вказування – Point

Snap UV coordinates to the location specified by Target Point.

Edge – Край

Snap UV coordinates to the location specified by Target Edge.

Snap: Point
Group – Група
Vertex – Вершина

All selected vertices will snap to Target Point.

Face – Обличчя

Center of all selected faces will snap to Target Point.

UV Island

Center of all selected islands will snap to Target Point.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Align UV to show Align UV menu.

  2. Select snap method Point.

  3. Set Target Point where UV coordinate will snap to.

  4. Set snap Group (See below for details).

  5. Select vertices or faces or UV islands which you want to snap.

Snap: Edge
Group – Група
Edge – Край

Selected edge will snap to the center of Target Edge.

Face – Обличчя

All edges belonging to faces which are included in selected edge will snap to the center of Target Edge.

UV Island

All edges belonging to UV islands which are included in selected edge will snap to the center of Target Edge.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Align UV to show Align UV menu

  2. Select snap method Edge.

  3. Set Target Edge where UV edge will snap to.

  4. Set snap Group (See below for details).

  5. Select edges which you want to snap.

Smooth UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Smooth UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Smooth UV

Smooth UV.

Transmission – Пропускання

If enabled, smooth UVs which are located on vertical direction of selected UV.

Select – Вибір

If enabled, the smoothed UVs are selected.

Mesh Influence

Provides a way to change the influence of mesh structure.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Smooth UV to show Smooth UV menu.

  2. Select UVs you want to smooth (The endmost UVs must be selected).

  3. Click Smooth.

Select UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Select UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Select UV

Select UV under the specific condition.

Overlapped

Selects all overlapped UVs.

Flipped – Перевернуто

Selects all flipped UVs.

Same Polygon Threshold

Provides a way to set a threshold for judging the same polygons.

Selection Method

Specifies how to select the faces.

Sync Mesh Selection

Select the mesh’s faces as well as UV’s faces.

Zoom Selected UV

Zoom to the selected UV in 3D Viewport.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Select UV to show Select UV menu.

  2. Click Overlapped or Flipped depending on your purpose (see details below).

Pack UV (Extension)

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Pack UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Pack UV (Extension)

Apply island packing and integrate islands which have same shape.

Allowable Center Deviation

Provides a way to specify the center deviation that regards as the same island.

Allowable Size Deviation

Provides a way to specify the size deviation that regards as the same island.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Pack UV (Extension) to show Pack UV (Extension) menu.

  2. Select faces whose UV you want to pack.

  3. Click Pack UV.

Clip UV

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Clip UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ UV Manipulation ‣ Clip UV

Clip UV coordinate to the specified range.

Range – Діапазон

Specifies the clipping range.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Clip UV to show Clip UV menu.

  2. Select faces you want to clip UV coordinates.

  3. Click Clip UV.

Align UV Cursor

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Align UV Cursor

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Editor Enhancement ‣ Align UV Cursor

Align UV cursor (2D Cursor in UV Editor).

Align Method
Texture – Текстура

The UV cursor aligns to the selected texture.

UV

The UV cursor aligns to the d UV (includes non-selected UV).

UV (Selected)

The UV cursor aligns to the displayed UV (only selected UV).

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box Align UV Cursor to show Align UV Cursor menu.

  2. Select Texture or UV or UV (Selected) depending on your purpose (See details below).

  3. Click the position button (You can choose the position from 9 buttons).

UV Cursor Location

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Editor Enhancement ‣ UV Cursor Location

Set and display UV Cursor (2D Cursor in UV Editor) location.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UV Cursor Location to show UV Cursor Location menu.

  2. UV cursor location is displayed, and you can set the new location as you like.

UV Bounding Box

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ UV Bounding Box

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Editor Enhancement ‣ UV Bounding Box

Transform UV with Bounding Box like a Photoshop/GIMP’s Bounding Box.

Uniform Scaling

If enabled, you can transform uniformly.

Boundary – Рубіж

Specifies the boundary of the bounding box.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UV Bounding Box to show UV Bounding Box menu.

  2. Click Show to show the bounding box.

  3. Transform UV with the bounding box as you like (You can transform UV same as Photoshop/Gimp).

  4. Click Hide.

UV Inspection

Reference – Довідка

Editor – Редактор

UV Editor – Редактор UV

Menu – Меню

UVs ‣ Inspect UV

Panel – Панель

Sidebar ‣ Magic UV ‣ Editor Enhancement ‣ UV Inspection

Inspect UV

Inspect UV and help you to find which UV is on the abnormal condition.

Overlapped

The overlapped part/face is enhanced.

Flipped – Перевернуто

The flipped part/face is enhanced.

Mode – Режим
Part

Enhance only to the overlapped/flipped part.

Face – Обличчя

Enhance the overlapped/flipped face.

Same Polygon Threshold

Provides a way to set a threshold for judging the same polygons.

Display View3D

Display overlapped/flipped faces on View3D as well as UV Editor.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UV Inspection to show UV Inspection menu.

  2. Click Show to enhance the part on which is under specific condition.

  3. Click Update if you want to update to the latest status.

  4. Click Hide.

Paint UV island

Paint UV island with random color.

Usage – Використання

  1. Click check box UV Inspection to show UV Inspection menu.

  2. Click Paint UV island.

Other Resources

The supplemental documentation (e.g. FAQ) and early release can be found in Magic UV’s Github repository.

Reference – Довідка

Category – Категорія

UV

Description – Опис

UV tool set. See add-ons preferences for details.

Location – Локація

3D Viewport ‣ Sidebar ‣ Edit and UV Editor –> Sidebar —> Magic UV

File – Файл

magic_uv folder

Author – Автор

Nutti, Mifth, Jace Priester, kgeogeo, mem, imdjs, Keith (Wahooney) Boshoff, McBuff, MaxRobinot, Alexander Milovsky

License – Ліцензія

GPL 3+

Note – Примітка

Цей додаток поставляється у комплекті з Blender’ом.