Copy Uv's Within Object

[bla-1]

hello there,

this topic is about a problem i have with uv-ing in maya. I am searching for a tool in maya or a mel script or other solution to copy uv's within the same object.

ok i didnt state it very clear so let me explain it in further detail.

imagine a house with multiple windows.. the house is a box and all the windows are the same. you made the windows so they have the same number of vertices etc. apart from a different location in the object they are quite the same.

What i want or trying to achieve is to map just one of these windows and then copy these uv's and apply them on all the other windows.. so you get all the same uv locations for each of the windows (overlapping uv's ).

so the steps i would take would be these:

map a certain amount of faces containing one window
map them well
select those faces with the uv's you just mapped correctly
copy uv's
select same number of faces containing a different window
paste uv's
done

i dunno if this i possible but this is what i tried till now:

i used various melscripts, but none of them worked till now, or just didnt had the function. i tried functions in maya itself
like mesh clipboard actions - copy/paste attributes. this works the way i want but only face to face, so you cant select a bunch and then copy and paste.

i hope i stated my problem clearly

tx in advance

strages

[joojaa]

Yes but theres a problem asscoiated with it. See uvs are based on the points NOT faces, so how would the sytem know what the order of the points would be?

[bla-1]

mmh ok didn't know that so what do you suppose i should do. i mean there must be a quiker way to do this, or else i'll have to do the same thing like 40 times over and over

[rgkovach]

here is how i would tackle the problem you've described...

select all the windows along one side of the house - Planar Map them along the primary axis. Repeat for each side of the house.
Select each UV shell and Normalize each one (this will effectively stack all the windows UVs on top of each other).
Drag select over a UV coordinate so as to select the same UV from each shell and use Unfold, Pin Selected UVs, Constraint None.
For further refinements, you can start cutting UVs and redoing the Unfold command.

[bla-1]

heya there, i think i found a solution which isnt as good as it should be but will work for me

the faces i need to uv with it like 40 times are only 162 faces at a time and i found out that you can use the copy and paste clipboard actions per face. so i am gonna copy and mass paste to all similar faces, which works
i assigned some hotkeys and calculated that if it is 40 windows it comes down at mmh.. like 40*162*2 = 12960 actions for the fun of it

tx for the reactions but i think uv ing isnt still a fun job and could use some more working tools

strages