Blender Addons for UV unwrapping and UV packing

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Today we are going to talk about 5 of the Best Blender addons, that you can use to make the process of making and organizing UV islands much faster and easier, whether it be for video game assets or high-poly assets for visual effects and animation.

5_Textools
it is A collection of tools that helps any texture artist with UV and texture related tasks. The main philosophy is to shorten typical steps into simple context-sensitive single clicks.

4_Texel Density Checker
This Blender addon can be used to solve a simple but serious problem when creating UVs. in 3d software in general when creating UVs you need to keep the aspect ratio between UV islands accurate otherwise the textures will not look perfect nor with the same details.

3_Zen Uv
Zen UV is another addon that combines a set of tools that can be used for creating fast UV’s in Blender. its tools are intuitive and can help you do some complex UV unwrapping tasks with ease.

2_UVpackmaster
when you use this addon you will realize that it is one of the most efficient UV packing solutions for Blender because it is very fast and uses both the CPU and Cuda GPUs as well at the same time. so if you have a strong CPU and a strong GPU you will be able to pack the UVs super fast with maximum efficiency.

1_Uv Toolkit
UV Toolkit is an addon that has a set of tools for fast and high-quality UVs creation within Blender. it comes with a lot of features that make the process of creating UVs faster easier.

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[kesura]

the most part i hate from learning 3D modeling is UV MAPPING.

[ankurjoshi]

There is a add-on named UVSquares it makes all UVs squares to avoid distortion.

[EllJQ]

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[pardismack]

tbh I don't find listing Addons useful but more confusing. The goal is to have a set of addons that work well together and don't overlap much to avoid having to learn making the same function from multiple addons and trying and picking and choosing what works best (it's even less confusing to learn another coherent 3D package than to have to learn all these addons and try them out and build a workflow with them).

It would be more useful to tell us what addons to choose if they have similar functionality, and what addons work well together to improve the workflow (I don't know if I need all of these 5 to improve my workflow or a combination of them, and which combination, which creates tens of possibilities and I feel like pulling my hair out and abandoning blender).

[fruitjuice]

THANK you so much! Great and helpful video

[lukasallenbaugh]

Thanks this was a very helpful tutorial!

[fullyleaded]

Which is the best one? I want to unwrap a very rounded car with seperate parts for doors and hood etc...

[mixchief]

@Flipped Normals: I can't help being curious, are you two from Norway, Denmark or Sweden by any chance? Hailing from the latter myself, I think I'm sensing a small touch of viking dialect somewhere in the mix. Although I should say your English is pretty flawless. :)

[marsmotion]

what are blenders plans to make uvs better natively? i think thats on their agenda.

[chaosordeal]

I think Textools is now included in Blender (but you have to turn it on).

[MrRuizi]

Gracias!! Lo guardaré para verlo siempre. Me gusta usar el UnWrapping.

[SwissplWatches]

What is the link to the serpent attacking the ship? What a great model! I searched extensively but couldn't find it.

[cgpotato]

Lucky these addons exist or it would be much harder

[NazzarenoGiannelliCG]

Would you suggest to use UV toolkit or Zen UV?

[wolcamophone]

I made a custom humanoid model and I was looking for a tool that would let me define which way each island faces up and then fit them together tightly.

[Millu]

Every other 3D software: We can include UV toolkit as default tools for UV in our software
Blender: PAY FOR THAT!

[Some_one]

thanks for the video but i have to say your filter cleaning voice on in post process make you sound like a proper robot o, o

[digitalconsciousness]

4:12 How do you get to that panel for UV Toolset? I have installed it, but I don't see the panel when I press N. Has all my other addons there. I can get the pie menu with CTRL+f, but I'd really like the panel. I got my version from gumroad, as it's not available on the blender store any more.

[KaasTVNL]

What's up with the muffled voice recording?