Questions tagged [uv-image-editor]
For questions related to the UV editor and its tools.
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How can I see/select UVs that are mirrored
I have around a hundred models which have some UVs that are mirrored. I need to find those UVs are unmirror them. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to do and I was hoping there would be a way to see ...
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Stack identical uv islands on top of each other
So imagine I have a spherecircle face divided into four identical slices. I want to uv unwrap them so they are all top of each other. I found one solution for blender 2.79 but it uses keyboard ...
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Pixels while texture painting
I come to a problem while texture painting. The lines and strokes are all pixelized and looks very ugly.
I tried to double/quadruple(2048px X 2048px/4096px X 4096px) the size of the image in the UV ...
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UV Editing not showing vertices on some objects but works well on other objects
getting started with blender and i'm trying to color an object using UV Editing but after going into Edit mode in UV Editing i can't find vertices unlike other objects. So if i press A then S then 0 ...
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bad texture overlay on the model
I have a bad texture overlay on the object.
I created an object and made for it Smart UV Project, island Margin made 0.001, then in shade editor made such a scheme, on all three materials and of ...
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Blender Add PNG with Transparent Background on simple Material [duplicate]
I made a barrel and want to add a Warning Sign on it... But I dont know how..
Tried to do it with UV but if I put it like that it shows a Background color.
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UV islands of multiple meshes turn into lines or distort into other shapes
I am trying to select relevant meshes in order to pack their UV islands onto a single UV map, but some of meshes and their respective islands either turn into lines or glitch out of the preview window ...
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All black rendering
Im new using the software and a lot of are things are being very difficult for me to understand .. I've already watched some tutorials of how to fix this problem but nothing seems to work
the ...
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How do I put a face on top of this halftone shader?
As the title says, I've been trying to put a simple black line on this half-tone shader using mix shader, mix, diffuse, etc. I've been using blender for a few months so I'm at a loss. Linked is what I ...
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How can I improve UV unwrapping in Blender?
Primarily I am a Maya user and I need some help to understand blender's unwrapping tool. By default Blender unwrapping tool gives suboptimal results with a lot of stretches on the inflated areas: ...
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Disable changing texture and zooming in UV?
In the UV editing room, whenever I select an island, the background texture changes. THATS fine. However this changes the zoom level randomly. Like if I select a UV island, the background texture will ...
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Whenever I add a face then the whole square becomes black
Whenever I add a face then the whole square becomes black.
I already UV the square so that the face matches it, so I don't know what's wrong with it.
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How can I change a specific color without repainting the entire object
I have this dolphin and I only want to change the blue to another color. The eye and mouth are also painted on. Is there a way to adjust only the blue without painting over the eyes and white on the ...
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How do I make this texture visible as a PNG?
I'm trying to export this model's textures from Blender, and I can do all of them fine except for the Eye texture. When I export it, it is just a blank PNG. I don't know how to make it visible in the ...
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Why is my Baked Texture Atlas Black?
Title pretty much says it, I'm pretty new to all of this and I'm trying to follow beginner guides on YouTube. So far I've been able to fineagle things and work them out myself but now I'm at a loss.
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How to flip UV map
I'm trying to flip this UV, but not just flip it's current position, flip it based on the whole texture sheet if that makes sense.
For example, I have this face mapped:
and I want to flip the UV so ...
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Texture "compression" issue
I am doing a model for my low-poly game and i have encountered a issue with the texture that i can't find anywhere how to fix it. Basically my texture becomes "compressed" and it's quality ...
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Exported OBJ to Procreate is imported with UV coordinate overlapping
A very simple 3D blender model. Two cubes. I use a Boolean difference to create what is basically a square donut. Exporting that file as an obj to be used in Procreate. I’ve merged, checked for ...
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How to add UDIM Tiles to an image and fill them via python?
I'm writing an addon that bakes various passes to textures using cycles bake.
The script checks the geometry and works out which UDIM tiles the uvs on the mesh are occupying, creates a new image and ...
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How do I get crisp edges on Image Editor? (Get rid of fall off of stroke)
How can I get rid of the fall off and have sharp endings to my strokes when being in the Image Editor? I don't like how the brush kind of fades off the color at the edges, I want it to be crisp and ...
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Why won't my UV Editing Textures show up in Texture Paint?
I have done other Blender projects before this one but for some reason, after I go into editing and unwrap my object, the outline of the UV Wrap will not show up in Texture Paint. I'm using 3.0 of ...
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How to mirror vertices on uv sheet
Sorry a newbie question... I have a UV sheet from a mirrored character using normals and displace.
however at some stage some vertices have been moved resulting in a gap on the textures on one side
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UV Editor Not Displaying Selected Faces
While in Edit Mode, selecting the geometry in the 3D viewport doesn't cause the same selected geometry to show up in the UV Editor window.
It's only when I begin modifying the selected UVs that the UV ...
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How to open an image in UV Editor via Script?
I'm trying to open an image through this UI element via code, but Blender info doesn't return all the necessary steps to do it.
All it shows is this function which does not load the image and assign ...
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How to keep sync between Canvas and UV Editor
When switching between objects the mesh from the picked object will change in the UV Editor only if I go to Edit Mode, but the Canvas Image remains the same as the last object edited. Node Editor ...
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Image Editor changed behavior, not updating automatically from node editor anymore
I'm working with a model with many materials on it. Previously, any time I would click on the Image Texture node in the node editor, it would send the image from that node into the Image Editor ...
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When unwrapping by sphere projection, how to separate the vertices at the poles and spread apart evenly, like the default mapping for a UV sphere?
For a sphere-like object, I've unwrapped it using sphere projection. The resulting UV looks like this, with a single vertex at the pole (ignore the squiggly lines for now):
I would like to modify ...
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brush not painting onto neither UV or live view model
so I've been using Blender for quite a while now and made multiple models in the texture paint tab without many issues. This time it's causing me some confusion.
As I paint with stabilizing stroke &...
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How do i save new UV Map and textures?
I am importing a 3ds model with many textures applied on it to blender to bake the textures into a single .png file. I know the workflow for that, I create a new UV map, Unwrap the model and bake the ...
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How to show UV islands in texture paint mode?
So I have unwrapped my object but when going into texture paint mode the uv maps I unwrapped disappear. How do I fix this
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Mesh will not seamlessly UV unwrap
I've tried modifying the seams and changing the unwrap settings, but no matter what I do when I hit "smart UV Unwrap" the mesh will not unwrap seamlessly. Is there a way to fix this?
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FBX Blender Export to Unity - Textures will not stay with model (using blender render or cycles render)
I've seen this issue come up several times in multiple forums and there doesn't appear to be a clear way to resolve (for my situation).
My Goal: Export the model (above) I created in blender with ...
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Problem understanding how to UV unwrap for bump and color material
I'm pretty new to Blender and I'm using Blender 2.82, but my questions are fairly generic to the recent versions and revolve around getting a better understanding of how the UV Editor works. I've ...
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How to UV unwrap this object and how to have the same textures resolution for the two objects
I'm a beginner in UV Unwrapping, I don't find the good way to UV unwrap this part of my object, it's called 'Detail' in the Blend file.
I tried different technics but I didn't get the best results to ...
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Weird Streched Lines
I am a beginner in Blender and working on this chair almost 5 days. As you see, top of chair are streching. I changed UV map several times but it did not work. I am really stuck on this. I tried ...
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Remove certain lines of stroke/line art modifier
I want to make a 3D model look more like an anime picture, so I added a grease pencil stroke and added it to the collection with the modifier. Now it almost looks good, but some lines I dont want, ...
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How to properly apply an image sequence texture to an imported alembic file?
I've imported an alembic file of a fluid simulation from Houdini and am trying to apply a sequence of image textures (displacement maps that I have also exported from Houdini for the ocean spectrum, ...
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UV Mapping Texture Stretched
I've been trying to make an even continuation of a pattern that's on the top part of a mesh lower on the side faces, but pattern keeps stretching to the inside. Any ideas how to make the stipes that ...
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Engraving displayed from two sides
I am trying to engrave an image to the bottom of an object. The problem is that it ends up projecting both on the bottom and the top.
My nodes look like this:
I think the problem is in UV editing. ...
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How do I fix the Smart UV Unwrap zooming in to the texture on my model?
Im trying to combine multiple material slots into one image texture by baking the materials onto a new image texture but I ran into an issue while unwrapping.
How do I unwrap this correctly and ...
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Texture breaking when painting
Not sure what it could be, got it after upgrading to 3.6.1, please help :(
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UV Unwrap not scaling correctly
Upon smart UV wrapping a toolbox, this happens:
As you can see the UV map is stretched. This is problematic as the pixels need to be perfectly square.
Assistance would be much appreciated.
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Mesh unwrapping incorrectly to baked texture after using UV project
This mesh previously had a texture baked to it. When I import it as a .obj and try to unwrap it using smart UV project, the mesh doesn't unwrap to the texture correctly. When I use unwrap, it is even ...
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How can I resolve this UV scale problem?
I've placed seams and have unwrapped the two selected objects in the picture below.
However, whenever I unwrap the objects the UV map is considerably bigger than the texture tile and I am unable to ...
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What are the Images in the UV editor for and how to prevent them affecting OBJ export?
I'm not sure I understand the UV image editor and its ability to hold images. I thought it was purely to get a visual comparison between your UVs and the image you use for texture mapping, but it ...
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How to do UV mapping?
I'm trying to learn UV mapping and here's the thing: in one case it just doesn't show in UV editor, there's only a properties window (as you can see on the screenshot of the clock below)
and in ...
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Square Uv map: fill the Uv layout
This is my Uv map
My target is to max and optimize my Uv, in particular I would like it matches the whole Uv space. One solution could be scale the whole Uv from x axis and move all until the match ...
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How to prevent bleeding on UV image textures in blender?
I created an object in blender and created a UV texture as PNG. However, even though I so carefully line up the edges of the object in the UV editor, I get this bleeding artifact (below). How do I ...
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How do I highlight unwelded UV vertex?
While working in editing mode, I noticed that the UV image on the object looked garbled so I clicked on the vertex to see where it was on the UV editor. Turns out when I edited the area to remove a 5 ...
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In Blender 3.3.x Image Editor in Mask mode, Add Circle and Add Square options are greyed out. How do we activate them?
In the Image Editor, I have an image loaded but when I try to create a mask, the Add Circle and Add Square options are greyed out.
I created a new Mask but the options remain unavailable and I noticed ...
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