I just UV unwrapped an icosphere to the default 1024x1024 texture, and the uv map has a lot of wasted space. I want to cut this texture to the minimum rectangle containing the uv map, essentially cutting at least half of the texture.
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There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this automatically, unless someone makes a plugin. This is how I did it with external image manipulation programs.
- This is the current UV unwrap
- To save the image from Blender, open it in the UV Editor and press Shift+Alt+S to Save As. Then use an external image editor to crop the image. Note the factor you are cropping by. If you crop it down by 1/2, note down 2. 1/3 is 3, 3/4 is 1.333... etc.
Go back to the UV Editor, click on Image > Replace. Find and select the cropped image. It should look like this:
- Now in the UV Editor, press N to bring up the sidebar if it isn't up already. Click View, then set the 2D Cursor to 0,0.
- Select all the vertices in the UV Editor with A. Press S then Y to Scale on the Y axis. Then enter your factor I mentioned before. I cropped the image by a half so I'll enter 2. Left click to finish scale.
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$\begingroup$ Hello @Benus, thanks for your input. I'm very disappointed this isn't a feature. It's not practical to do this manually with dozens of textures, and more importantly, how do I find the exact amount to crop? $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 8, 2022 at 14:35