Questions tagged [uv-image-editor]
For questions related to the UV editor and its tools.
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is there an easy way to select the whole top of a texture?
I have a model which is UV unwrapped with 1 image texture.
Now i want to select the whole top of the lady's outfit (which is partly selected and gray).
I know i can use circle select, but because the ...
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Assign UV map to material (and consequently to object)
I'm a Blender beginner (for some 20 years, I guess) - I've created a UV map by Unwrapping a box-like object. When opened in Gimp, it was empty, so I took screenshot,...
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Textures not aligning with edges
does anyone know how to fix this issue with materials not lining up with the other edge? Ive attached a photo of my problem and I'm sure it's an easy fix but I don't have crazy experience with blender ...
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How to get rid of UV-unwrap distortions on a curved object (sock model)?
I needed to have image patterns placed on the sock to generate a bunch of sock renders. So I made a model and got these strange distortions on UV-unwrap on the ankle level.
I tried to fix that in ...
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Smart UV Project Distorts Color Map
I'm new to Blender and I recently asked on my last post/question that I was having problems with baking textures. I have fixed that problem, however, I have a new problem now. Every time I Smart UV ...
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How to UV map this image onto chrome material
I have already a chrome material applied to my object. And then I make the same material for the front of the object, and I want to UV this PNG image, but I don't know how to set up the NODE for it to ...
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Trying to figure out UV Wrapping but it is not working
I thought for sure that I understood, but I guess I do not.
I "exported" - UV> Export UV Layout from the UV Editor, so that I could place materials via Photoshop to this exported layout - ...
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How do I know which UV channel I'm viewing for each selected object(s)
It seems I can only select the channel of my active object(s) and there doesn't seem to be anything to show that when I go to the second channel of one of my object's UVs. The other objects show their ...
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How do I edit UVS without having every face selected?
To be able to edit and move my uvs in the uv editor panel, I have to have every face selected on my mesh. That makes everything bright orange, which makes it hard to be precise with my uv editing. Is ...
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Baked Material to Image Texture looks BLURRY
I made this material and when I go to bake the diffuse (or any map) the baked image looks blurry... The image size is set to 4096x4096, and the margins are left at 16... What am I doing wrong?
I ...
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Is it possible to exactly set a UV mapping by entering the UV values as numbers instead of clicking and dragging?
I'm trying to apply a UV texture I created to a model, but I'm not satisfied by the level of precision offered by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. I would like to be able to pick a vertex ...
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Material assigning problem while projecting UV from view onto texture
I have 2 rather screenshots than textures
What I do is projecting my front and back sides of a character mesh onto these pictures.
I do that in this consequence:
assign a material to the mesh.
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UDIM tiles option missing in Blender 3.2
I installed the 3.2 release yesterday and I have come across an issue when working in my character UV's.
Once I've had the UV's unwrapped, I have tried to enlarge the UV tiling space in order to lay ...
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How do I move a vert on my uvs that's overlaying another vert without moving both of them?
As the title says I have a vert overlaying another vert in the uv image editor and I would like to be able to move one of them without moving the other one.
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UV scaling not updating the texture in the object
In the UV editing tab when I rescale and move the UV, the texture is not updating.
In the all other objects rescaling is working
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A way to extend the UV grid in the UV Editor
Instead of having empty space outside UV space, continue the grid. Drawing the grid over images may also be useful
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I tried unwrapping my model and this is what I got, how can I fix this?
.blend file
Apparently, it only works well when I try to unwrap the objects individually, I've checked the marked seams and nothing seems to be wrong.
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How can I align a texture and material based on the same image?
I am trying to model an "inflationary multiverse", inspired by this picture from Quanta Magazine:
To do that, I am trying to create a bunch of bubble universes expanding out as part of the ...
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Normal map bake is not seamless after UV unwrapping character
So I UV unwrapped my character first, then I duplicated it to use as a cage, I went on sculpting n inflated the cage mesh a bit, so it doesn't intercept with the high res sculpt that I want to extract ...
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Pitch Black Image Editor & UV Editor
Hi. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and Blender 3.1.2
I noticed that I cannot see my selected faces in the Black UV Editing environment. Selection seems to be under the black pixel as if it is a ...
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How can I make my texture loopable on a cube
I'm trying to put this loopable wallpaper on this wall and no matter how i mess with the UVs, i cant make it loop. is there some other way to do this?
here is the blend file
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How to make sure the texture doesn't stretch on the inside of a cylinder?
I've been trying to put a brick texture on a cylinder, I'm running out of time since I've been stuck on this for so long. The sides as shown in the picture below are getting stretched out, I've tried ...
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Rotating in edit mode meshes messes up UV Maps
Every time I rotate any model in the scene the UVs get messed up. I tested doing the same in a new scene and everything works normally.
Has anyone ever encountered this problem in Blender? Someone ...
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How to tile an image for Uving in Uv editor?
I'm doing some texturing using trim sheets, so a lot of my uving is done off the image on the editor. Is there a way to tile the image so it repeats over and over so I can see where I'm placing things?...
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Having trouble with baking textures on an image
I am relatively new to UV unwrapping and baking textures, I am trying to bake the colour(diffuse) of different objects that make up a CRT monitor model I made onto an Image("Baking"), I ...
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Uv unwrapping giving lots of extra lines?
So I am a complete beginner to blender and started trying to do this frog model tutorial. I got to the uv unwrapping after marking seams and have a mess instead of what the video showed. I have tried ...
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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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How can I move faces together in UV editor?
It is possible to move faces together, as solid island, but not as separated:
In sync mode.
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Why are my circular UVs turning oval?
I'm trying to unwrap my first model and there's some problems I can't get around. First, my circular faces are getting an oval shape in the map (image below), second, sometimes a mesh will get much ...
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UV map really small in uv editing?
UV's appearing too small in editing?
The UV's appear entirely to small, and so it makes the texture to big.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Why are UV Maps are "squared off" why is this easier? [duplicate]
In this youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xF5d3esd0&t=204s he explains how you must square off the UV map and essentially entirely fill up the 2048 x 2048 square. Why is this?
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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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UV map not applying to object
EDIT: I found the solution using this tutorial: https://youtu.be/8NEmx0cHwoI
I watched a tutorial on UV mapping, it didnt really help me with my issue, so here is my problem;
As you can see in this ...
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MagicUV not pasting correctly
Started using the magic uv addon, and it was functioning great for about a day. Now it's suddenly not copy and pasting faces correctly. Or in other words, I select the faces that I want to copy, copy ...
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How to delete uv maps (UVMap.001), etc?
I'm using MagicUV and I don't know how these uv maps keep getting created. MagicUV has also stopped working correctly (Copy and pasting is broken now), and I think it has something to do with these uv ...
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How to do a blinking animation similar to this? [duplicate]
So I want to create a blinking animation like this and it looks as if instead of making the eye a mesh its a texture where he has 3-4 seperate images that he probaby keyframes to make the character ...
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Mapping a Flag on a Sphere
I'm trying to Map a country flag on a sphere and I have some difficulty.
As you can see the flag isn't place as i wanted. You can see two circle around the ball to help me how to explain what I would ...
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Transform UV map when running python script in background
I'm trying to rotate, resize and translate an UV map using a python script that runs in the background (without UI). I got it working when running the script directly in blender (with UI) but cannot ...
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UV Editor Grid Overlay
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to enable a grid overlay like one would see in Gimp or photoshop, for the UV editor of blender. Here's a picture showing what I mean:
The grid is a 16x16, ...
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Why won't Blender paint the picked color?
When I pick a color in the Image Editor, and then proceed to paint with the picked color, the paint does not match the color I picked..
Why does the painted color not match the color I picked?
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Need help wrapping my object
So I've been working on a project and I'm trying to wrap my object with a camo color but for some reason the camo wrap is looks glitchy. Here's a photo, can someone tell me what I've done wrong.
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2 Materials with the same image and UV offset for meshes give different results?
I'm trying to combine 2 textures into one, and I successfully put the images together, however while the UVs for the face colour and Hair are in the same place overlaying the same spot, it messes up ...
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Why is my Cylinder not unwrapping square?
I've been trying to study some game assets and replicate them for practice and I cant seem to get the UVs to unwrap the same way. Usually a cylinder unwraps square with a seam down the side, but the ...
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How to insert an eyeball texture into an eyeball mesh
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When I try to adjust the texture of the eyeball with the resize eyeball object, the eyeball always appears black. I am currently at a loss.
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How to mix multiple textures in same procedural material
I'm trying to create a procedural tiled wood texture with several image textures in it.
I am using a brick texture and would like it to output different wood textures on the tiles in it.
It works well ...
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i have problem with uv packer. How do i fix this uv? i click pack and it snap to the edge. I follow champfer zone tutorial
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UV mapping and extra images
I keep making a smart UV map for one of my combined meshes and whenever I go into texture paint, it deletes the UV Map. When I into the imported images on the UV map it shows four of the same. I want ...
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How to get single colours on voxel faces bpy to blender python api
I created a script within blender to voxelize an .obj model, uv map it, and reduce the colour of each voxel face to a singular tone. The script runs fine inside blender itself.
When I switch over to ...
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Parts of Textured Mesh look extremely different from other parts
I have a model and a skin material. When applying the material to the model mesh, everything looks good, except that portions of the mesh look very different:
Explicit image
Now, the head is actually ...
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UV map U direction refering to X or Y?
As for as my knowledge goes the UV in UV map is basically the same as X and Y direction.
So my question is does the U in UV refer to the X direction in the UV editor or the Y direction?
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