The right tool for the right job
My workflow goes Model>Make Texture Sheet>Unwrap to fit.
Often I am unwrapping, and go to select a new face (or group of faces) and because I have the rotate /scale or move tool selected in the UV editor, I end up rotating /scaling or moving the faces, even though the modelling is finished and will never modify the mesh again. Often this means I've damaged the model without realising, and often I only find out after I've used up my undo's. There was mention of a padlock type icon to lock things but I dont see it in the interface anywhere.
Solution: A memory set for the selected tool in the UV editor seperate to the selected tool in the 3d view. So if Ive been using the rotate tool in the uv editor, and the select tool in the 3d view, these two parameters are both stored so Moving mouse from one window to the next restores the tool I was last using in that window, as opposed to carrying the tool globally.
If Im not being clear, let me know, and I'll explain futher when I have time
AC
My workflow goes Model>Make Texture Sheet>Unwrap to fit.
Often I am unwrapping, and go to select a new face (or group of faces) and because I have the rotate /scale or move tool selected in the UV editor, I end up rotating /scaling or moving the faces, even though the modelling is finished and will never modify the mesh again. Often this means I've damaged the model without realising, and often I only find out after I've used up my undo's. There was mention of a padlock type icon to lock things but I dont see it in the interface anywhere.
Solution: A memory set for the selected tool in the UV editor seperate to the selected tool in the 3d view. So if Ive been using the rotate tool in the uv editor, and the select tool in the 3d view, these two parameters are both stored so Moving mouse from one window to the next restores the tool I was last using in that window, as opposed to carrying the tool globally.
If Im not being clear, let me know, and I'll explain futher when I have time
AC
