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UVAutoRatio Pro
“The time it saves is unparalleled in third party UV tools.”
Paul Lohman, Phantom EFX
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Artists in the film and games industry spend hours manually scaling the texture coordinates of models to get them in the right proportion. This plugin completely automates this process but still leaves the artist in control.


Introduction

To get the most out of textures they should be mapped in proportion to the size of the geometry. Not doing so means that different parts of the scene will have different texture distribution, resulting in some textures appearing blurrier than others while some will be overly sharp, making the scene appear inconsistent and strange. Those objects with too much texture mapped to them waste memory and cause aliasing (flickering) due to the overly high frequency of texels.

Artists in the game and film industry can spend hours scaling UVs up and down manually trying to get them to the ideal proportion. This isn't a particularly fun job, in fact it's not something we should be wasting our time with. Wouldn't it be great if this tiresome task was automated?

Enter UVAutoRatio Pro: the complete tool for automating all texel ratio tasks.


Features
  • Automatically scale UVs based on surface area
  • Fast and accurate processing algorithm
  • Ability to specify UV-set
  • Operates on UV shells
  • Automatically moves overlapping UV shells
  • Normalise across multiple objects
  • UV shell finder tool
  • Ratio inspector tool
  • Maintains settings between sessions
Other Features:
  • Supports all major 32 and 64-bit versions of Maya on Windows, Mac and Linux up to Maya 2013
  • Automatic installer and uninstaller for Windows
  • Version update notification system
  • Comprehensive documentation
  • Comprehensive support

Documentation

Please view the online documentation for a complete feature breakdown with examples.


Videos


Basic Features: Castle Wall Demo


Testimonials
The UVAutoRatio Pro tool made it possible to UV 100s of items in seconds, leaving me more time for stylizing and art direction of the shot.
- Senior Modeler, National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Precise results in seconds rather than hours - since we found out about UVAutoRatio the computer does the tedious, boring stuff while we can concentrate on the fun part. That's how things are supposed to be.
- Tom L, Senior 3D Artist, Realtime Technology
UVAutoRatio makes UV mapping almost completely automated for diffuse and normal map UV layouts, even more so for light map layouts! The time it saves is unparalleled in third party UV tools. Thanks Guys!
- Paul Lohman, Phantom EFX

UVAutoRatio has been used in the production of the following films:

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Download
Download includes a free 30 day trial!
License Information
Includes all updates until version 3.0
Personal £10.00 GBP
Professional £30.00 GBP
Site £300.00 GBP
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Licensing

Licensing is easy, just follow the steps below:

Licensing Steps

  1. Purchase a license via our secure online store.
  2. Our store will automatically generate your license key and email it to you.
    Your license key is plain-text and will look something like this:
    bill@initech.com-(1 user license)-Bill Lumbergh-Initech-UVAutoRatio Pro 2.x-
    3ABC-5Q2T-6A0N-2C13-0I0K-5Q2T-6A0N-9Z13-634M-0A4S-5Z1Y-3I3W
  3. Launch Maya and enter this key into the UVAutoRatio Pro plugin when prompted.

Licensing Notes
  • Single-user and multi-user licenses can be purchased.
  • Site licenses can also be purchased to cover an entire studio or company with a single key.
Licensing Benefits
  • Licenses are valid for ALL supported versions of Maya on ALL supported platforms.
  • Our licenses are "floating" which means they are not locked to a specific machine.
  • Licenses are valid for all future updates to the software up until version 3.0.
  • Licensed users receive maximum priority support.


News

Version 2.5.4 - 14 May 2012

  • Added support for Maya 2013 for Windows
Version 2.5.2 - 17 February 2012
  • Added support for Maya 2012 for Mac
Version 2.5.2 - 21 September 2011
  • Added support for Maya 2012 for Windows
Version 2.5.1 - 10 March 2011
  • Minor bug fixed in the installer
Version 2.5.0 - 23 August 2010
  • Added support for Maya 2011

  • Installer can install silently and automatically license keys
  • Added to documentation about how to translate UVAutoRatio into your own language by using the localisation system
More version history »


Screenshots

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UVAutoRatio 2.0 Pro, with the entire UI expanded

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UVAutoRatio Basic 1.3

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UVAutoRatio Basic in action creating uniform UVs across an entire scene.
Image courtesy Realtime Technology.



Support

UVAutoRatio Pro comes with documentation which is also available online.

If you'd prefer, you can email the developers directly. We're keen to hear your comments and suggestions. If you have a bug to report, please include the scene file if possible.


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