UV toolset

["Wayne Williams" <wayne(at)tripwireinteractive.com>]

I've read through the docs a bit and have tried to figure out workflows similar to how Max's UV editor works but am coming up with nil. These are a few things that I can't seem to figure out and am wondering if they just aren't in XSI's uv toolset or if I just don't know they are there.

1.Max has a "3d relax" tool that can relax based on face or edge angles. With the Face Angle method I think it is taking and looking at the polygons and their size relationship to one another in the 3D view and relaxing the uv samples to match that. The relax uv tool in XSI appears to only do Edge Angle method.  

2.In max, when you island heal one sample island to another it rotates and matches the samples so they heal together nicely. Ex. You have a cylinder that has a cylindrical unwrap and is proper uv wise. Sub projection>Planar map the top set of polys and the resultant samples are as big as the cylinder itself. In max, I'd select the top uv samples and island heal one edge to the cylinder and it shrinks the top samples down to match to the cylinder, rotates it, then heals it on. In XSI, it just seems to keep the same size. Is there a way to have it shrink the samples down?

3.Unique Uv's in XSI are great. Unfortunately, I only seem to be able to give an object one set of unique UV at the outset of uv'ing my object. After that I have to sup-project my way through the rest of my samples. In max, we are able to use Unique UV's (flatten map) as a projection and then again as a sub projection over and over. I've found this workflow to be very speedy when uv'ing and hope there's a way to do it in XSI.

Sorry if I'm comparing apples to oranges here with the Max vs XSI mail but just want to help others transition over to XSI one day and need to find out all I can if that'll happen. Thanks for any tips or workarounds you guys can share. Thanks!

-Wayne