UVGroupUtil

UV Group Utilities is a plug-in for Maya designed to extend the functionality of Maya's UV editor to list and group UV shells.

Installation

1. Copy UVGroupUtil.mll from the downloaded folder to the Maya plug-ins directory:

• Windows: %homepath%\Documents\Maya\plug-ins (or C:\users\<username>\Maya\plug-ins)

If the plug-ins directory does not exist within the Maya folder, create it manually

2. Launch Maya and open the plug-in manager by selecting Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager It is recommended that this is done in a new, empty scene, but not required

3. Locate UVGroupUtil.mll listed under the appropriate path and select Loaded

4. Select Accept in the pop-up dialog if prompted

5. Auto-load may now also be checked if you would like the plug-in to load with Maya on each startup

Features

Groups

Containers that other groups or UV shells can be assigned to

• Automatically serialize on save and deserialize on load

UV Outliner

UV Outliner window designed to mirror Maya's built-in outliner that lists the UV hierarchy for each mesh in the scene and acts as a visualizer for groups

• Interactive updates for mesh creations and deletions¹
• Interactive updates for UV shell splits, merges, creations and deletions with respect for existing groups
• UV shell grouping
• Recursive UV shell grouping (groups containing groups)
• Group deletion with automatic hierarchy updates
• Reparenting groups and shells by dragging and dropping in the UV outliner

Layout commands

Planned features

UV Outliner

• Support for hidden objects
• Support for multiple layers
• Quick access option to delete all groups
• Support for object reordering

Layout commands

• Optimization for large scenes
• More reliable recursive layout
• Freezing/locking groups
• Complex bounding shapes for more efficient layouts

Visual overlay in the UV editor

Misc

• Undo

Footnotes

1. Transient meshes (e.g. when duplicating) are not yet supported ↩