UVPackmaster free C++ SDK for UV packing released

Glukoz has announced the release of a free UVPackmaster SDK for Windows and Linux, allowing any developer to use the tool’s features in their own applications.

UVPackmaster is a multi-threaded tool previously only available for 3ds Max and Blender that’s written in C++  and can use Cuda-enabled GPUs for packing and can perform some packing operations on all CPUs and GPUs simultaneously. Other features include: 

• Heuristic iterating for the best packing result.
• Adding new islands to an existing packing (with an option to automatically adjust the scale of new islands).
• Stacking similar UV islands on top of each other and packing them together.
• locking arbitrary UV islands together (their relative position will be maintained during packing, even if they’re not stacked).
• Island grouping.
• UDIM support – packing to many tiles with the best possible coverage (no margin of empty space is present in the result).
• Packing to a custom box in the UV space. 
• Defining rotations on a per-island basis.
• Packing for a non-square texture.
• Defining the exact margin and padding between islands in pixels of the texture.

For more information visit the UVPackmaster website.