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UV Arrangement

UV Snapshot

Bake Textures

Move UV with Value

Auto UV Packing

View UV Maps

Objective

Create UV maps of Patterns, Buttons, Zippers and more to bake Normal, Roughness, Metalless, Alpha maps.

※Note: U is the horizontal axis and V is the vertical axis in the graph.

Location

Main Menu ▶ Change the mode at the top-right corner  ▶ UV EDITOR

Operation

 UV Arrangement

1. Click Pattern ▶ Drag to edit the UV position.
       
2. Or, place it using the right-click pop-up menu on patterns and backgrounds.

   Object	Description
   Pattern	Align two or more patterns to the desired position or flip them horizontally/vertically.
   Background	Arrange with UV (0-1)	Fit All UV to 0-1.
   		Length (Absolute)	Enter the actual distance value from the outline to offset the distance.
   		UV Coordinate (Relative)	Enter a value between 0-1 from the outline to offset the distance.
   	Reset UV to 2D Arrangement	Reset all UV to 2D Arrangements.

 UV Snapshot

1. UV Editor Window toolbar ▶ Click the UV Snapshot.
   → The UV Snapshot window appears.
   
   
2. After setting the following options, click the Save.

   Options	Description
   Saving Path	Specifies the storage path for UV Snapshot.
   Size (Pixels)	Set the size of the image. The image is saved as a square and if the Anti-alias Lines option is checked, anti-aliasing is applied to the wire segment.
   Edge Color	Set the color of the wire segment.
   UV Area	0-1 (Default)	Save the default 0-1 tile.
   	Selected Tile	Save 1 selected tile. If users enter the UV coordinates to be saved, only one tile is saved.
   	All Tiles	Save all tiles.

   → UV Snapshots are saved according to the options which are adjusted.

 UV Bake Textures

1. UV Editor Window toolbar ▶ Click Bake Textures.
   → Baking Textures pop-up menu appears.
   
   
2. After setting the following options, click the Save.

   Options	Description
   Saving Path	Specify the saving path and the format(PNG / JPEG / PDF (ver 6.1)) for baked textures.
   Size (Pixels)	Set the size of the image. The image is saved as a square.
   UV Area	0-1 (Default)	Save the default 0-1 tile.
   	Selected Tile	Save 1 selected tile. If users enter the UV coordinates to be saved, only one tile is saved.
   	All Tiles	Save all tiles.
   	Fill Texture Seams	The Texture is filled in the seam line by the entered Pixels value.
   		Infinite Seams (ver 2024.1)	Fill the seam line to the entire area outside of the pattern.
   Texture Type	Select the type of texture to bake.

   → The texture is baked and saved according to the options which are adjusted.
   

Move UV with Value (ver 6.2)

1. UV Editor Toolbar ▶ Click the Move UV tool.  
   → Move UV window appears. 
     
2. Set the distance to be moved. Distance 1 indicates the length of the segment of the UV Tile in the UV Editor window.
     
3. Move the UV by clicking the Arrow icon or pressing the directional keys on the keyboard. 
   → UV is moved according to the distance you set. 
   

Auto UV Packing 

1. UV Editor Toolbar ▶ Click the Auto UV Packing tool.
   → UV Packing window appears. (ver 2024.1) / (ver 7.3)

   Option	Description
   Option	U V Padding	Sets the spacing between UVs. Values ​​are applied in thousandths of the UV tile size. (0.001 ~ 0.999)
   	Fidelity	Adjust UV accuracy from 1 to 5. The higher the value, the more accurate the placement is as it is calculated in the original form, but the amount of calculation increases and it takes more time.
   	Fix Scale Ratio	Fix the size ratio of UVs.
   	Advanced Placement	It is calculated in a more advanced way and is placed with optimal results with minimal empty space, but the larger the number of patterns, the more time it takes.
   UV Area	0-1 (Default)	Set to default 0-1 tile.
   	Selected Tile	Set by directly entering UV coordinates.

2. Click the Apply button.
   → UVs are placed according to the set options.. 
     

 View UV Maps

1. Upper left of the UV Editor window ▶ Click the View UV Map icon → Map icons that can be changed appear horizontally.
2. Click the desired map icon.
   → The UV of the 2D window changes to the type of map users click.

※Note: The UV map of the OBJ topstitch used in a garment is also provided. (ver 6.1)