Blender Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people who use Blender to create 3D graphics, animations, or games. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
How do you select an entire UV island on a mesh by selecting a piece of the desired island? Similar to the Ctrl+L for selecting all connecting geometry, only selecting all geometry within seams.
I.E. select a vertex within an island.
And hit some hot-key to extend the selection to the marked seams.
I use this feature all the time in 3ds Max, so I can unwrap a piece at a time. It would be a huge timesaver to be able to do this in Blender as well.
To select an entire island within seam boundaries: In edit mode activate FACE SELECT, hover the mouse over the wanted island, and press L.
Not exactly what you are asking for, but hopefully helpful.
In the operator options, enable UV as a delimiter to select UV islands:
Select linked can delimit by seams, but this only works in face-select mode *:
If you don't have seams around the UV island, you can automatically create them.
* - this is intentional, select-linked traverses only faces in face-select mode, and edges in vert/edge mode.
