Unresponsive Uv Texture Editor

[lakehaze]

Why isn't there a Maya -> 'Texturing' forum? I guess noobie will have to do...

How do you translate, rotate, and scale components in the UV Texture Editor? Isn't it the same control system as the iso viewports?

My w/e/r keys seem to do nothing in the UV Editor. Actually, the mouse icon blinks, and it may change to an arrow-pointing-at-an-empty-box, but I beleive it is only another kind of selector icon. I uninstalled 4.5 and installed 6.5, but I kept the prefs file. Now, 6.5 is doing the same thing. What setting do I have messed up?

Any ideas?

EDIT: I've reinstalled maya again, this time removing the folders title '4.5' and '6.5'. The application has been returned to its default presets. Alas, I still cannot manipulate any components in the UV Editor...

EDIT: OK, so the arrow-pointing-into-an-empty-box is the icon used for having an active maniplator tool ready. The icon holds this form until I move the mouse... I select a vert, then hit 'w', the icon changes to the 'move' icon, i move the mouse, the icon returns to the 'select' (arrow/pointer) icon. Should a manipulator show up in the UV Editor? Have I hidden my UV Manipulator handles somehow???

[joojaa]

Sounds like a gfx card glitch. TRy different drivers.

On the otherhand it may be a sort of a combo with stupiduser error too. See there will NOT be a mainipulator in uv editor for NAY other component mode except UV. even tough components light up.

[pogg]

The UV Texture editor will not work if you have selected vertices.

use the right mouse button and choose UVs and then select the UVs you want to manipulate rather than vertices. Then when you have the UV texture editor open and the uvs are shown, right click and choose UVs again just to make sure you are set to select and move uvs

Or you can select the vertices you want to manipulate and

Edit Polydons > Selection > Convert Selection to UVs

It's a simple soultion and you may have already tried it, but it's as the guy said earlier; it won't let you manipulate anything but UVs in the UV texture editor, though it will let you select faces, vertices and edges.

The warning "Warning: Some items cannot be moved in the 3D view." comes up to tell you that it can't move anything but UVs.

[user_deleted]

Ive been manipulating my UVs all day in the UV Texture Editor, it was all going well untill I tried to seperate a group of UVs as a seperate shell, but their not cutting free. I dont know what to do cos its the first time its happened. Its soooo fustrating.

Thanks ThePman

[capricorn2]

In the UV Teture Editor:
- select edges that U want to separate groups of UVs
- 'cut UVs'
- click on a UV, 'select shell'
- you should be able to drag that groups of UVs separately.

[user_deleted]

Thats what i was doin when it worked as well, ive tried doin it a couple of ways but this particular group wont budge. ive decided to apply a projection map to the selection and relax, move, scale and shove the shell in my snapshot quarter. It worked out to take just as long cos of all the overlapping UVs. Cheers anyway
ThePman.

[lakehaze]

Thanks guys, it was user error. I was trying to move the vertices instead of the UV's. Thanks again, could't have done it without you

Why isn't there a Maya>Texturing forum?

[anna-vrieling]

Hi Everyone!

I am encountering a similar problem to this in 2015, but I am definitely selecting UV's and not verticies... I'm new to texturing, but I haven't had a problem with it until now. I was able to unwrap everything in a cacuts model but two arms. For some reason, I can select the shell but I can not move it to the area to prepare for texturing. Any suggestions?