Unfold3D 9 released

Jun 05, 2015 by CGP Staff

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Polygonal Design has released a significant update to its UV unwrapping software, improving the software’s core and UI, and adding 38 new features. Changes include:

Main new features:

New brush tool for Optimize and Unfold.
Unfold does not create overlaps anymore when flattening islands.
Possibility to add room space on the tight zones of the island frontiers to remove texture bleed.
Full featured transformation panel (Rotate Scale Translate with mathematical evaluation). Different center and axis modes.
New “Proportional Transform” tool (with distance mesh based).
New Drag, Pinch, Spread brush tools.
New UI.
Soft pinning (brush editable).
LUA script for a full control of Unfold3D.
Free form area selection (raytraced).
New “Cut Mutual” tool.
UDIM support with multiple UV Tiles.
5 new mouse presets: Cinema 4D, Blender, ZBrush, Modo, Rhino.
New Grid with island bounding box and point snapping.
New tools to hide, isolate, show islands.
Automatic edge straightening tool for grid like islands.

Other new features and enhancements:

Improved realtime Optimize algorithm.
Improved OBJ file mesh import.
Improved speed and robustness for unfold and optimize.
You can now “cut” a selection of polygons.
You can now “weld” polygons and islands.
The tile id display has 3 different modes: “UDIM”, “_u_v” (zero based), “_U_V” (one based).
The UV tile can have arbitrary ratio, dimensions and location.
The U and V texture multipliers can be 1:1, Linked, Free, and use the same ratio as the custom texture W&H ratio.
There are now 4 different modes for the color of islands in the viewports: Uniform color for island, Stretch, Density map, Off (uniform grey).
The edge loop selection can have a limit in the number of edge and can stop when two consecutive edges form an angle superior to a given limit. The “Geometric mode” allows to work on a triangulated mesh.
New textured grid picture for better distortion visualization.
Monitored file to remote control Unfold3D by a third app.
New Help window that shows the mouse bindings and tips.
The exporter now exports Tiff files (and also BigTiff).
New “Select Parallel” edges tool.
The UV viewport now has rulers.
The viewport have a new gizmo for switching to the top, bottom, back, front, left and right point of views.
Viewport zoom is now mouse centered.
All numeric input can evaluate mathematical expression (you can write things like “0.25*2+1.0”).
Topocopy will now work in automatic mode if you select all the islands.
New icon to switch directly from 3D to UV view and vice et versa.
The edge selection Shortest Path tool is faster.