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UVAutoRatio Pro
The time it saves is unparalleled in third party UV tools.
- Paul Lohman, Phantom EFX
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Artists in the film and games industry spend hours manually scaling the texture coordinates of models to get them in the right proportion. This plugin completely automates this process but still leaves the artist in control.


UVAutoRatio Basic UVAutoRatio Pro
  • Automatically scale UVs based on surface area
Yes Yes
  • Fast and accurate processing algorithm
Yes Yes
  • Supports Maya 6.0 to Maya 2009
Yes Yes
  • 32-bit and 64-bit support
Yes Yes
  • Ability to specify UV-set
Yes Yes
  • Much faster for high polygon scenes
- Yes
  • Operates on UV shells
- Yes
  • Enhanced user interface
- Yes
  • Automatically fix overlapping UV shells
- Yes
  • Limit the scaling to horizontal/vertical axis
- Yes
  • UV shell finder tool
- Yes
  • Ratio inspector tool
- Yes
  • Maintains settings between sessions
- Yes
- Yes
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Overview

To get the most out of textures they should be mapped in proportion to the size of the geometry. Not doing so means that different parts of the scene will have different texture distribution, resulting in some textures appearing blurrier than others while some will be overly sharp, making the scene appear inconsistent and strange. Those objects with too much texture mapped to them waste memory and cause aliasing (flickering) due to the overly high frequency of texels.

Artists in the game and film industry can spend hours scaling UVs up and down manually trying to get them to the ideal proportion. This isn't a particularly fun job, in fact it's not something we should be wasting our time with. Wouldn't it be great if this tiresome task was automated?

Enter UVAutoRatio Pro: the complete tool for automating all texel ratio tasks.


Features

Please view the online documentation for a complete feature breakdown with examples.


Video


Basic Features: Castle Wall Demo
Click here to watch High Quality 1280x720 HD version


Testimonials
The UVAutoRatio Pro tool made it possible to UV 100s of items in seconds, leaving me more time for stylizing and art direction of the shot.
- Senior Modeler, National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Precise results in seconds rather than hours - since we found out about UVAutoRatio the computer does the tedious, boring stuff while we can concentrate on the fun part. That's how things are supposed to be.
- Tom L, Senior 3D Artist, Realtime Technology
UVAutoRatio makes UV mapping almost completely automated for diffuse and normal map UV layouts, even more so for light map layouts! The time it saves is unparalleled in third party UV tools. Thanks Guys!
- Paul Lohman, Phantom EFX

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UVAutoRatio Pro
License Information
Includes all updates until version 3.0
Personal £10.00 GBP
Professional £30.00 GBP
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UVAutoRatio Basic
Freeware
Free to download and use with no restrictions.
Windows
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MacOSX


Screenshots

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UVAutoRatio 2.0 Pro, with the entire UI expanded

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UVAutoRatio Basic 1.3

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UVAutoRatio Basic in action creating uniform UVs across an entire scene.
Image courtesy Realtime Technology.



Support

UVAutoRatio Pro comes with documentation which is also available online.

Use the discussion forum to post your questions, opinions, submit feature requests, report bugs and show off ways you've used the plugin.

If you'd prefer, you can email the developers directly. We're keen to hear your comments and suggestions. If you have a bug to report, please include the scene file if possible.


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RenderHeads is an Autodesk Authorised Developer.


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