UV Mapping Tutorials

Common UV transfer problems in Maya by Dru Abrams.
Fix for UV transfer problems resulting from mirrored geometry. Rev. October, 30, 2003.

UV snapshot workflow by Dru Abrams
Description of traditional UV mapping workflow with Maya and Photoshop. Rev. August, 08, 2003

UV Mapping by Isham "Sama" Padron.
Multiple planar maps for Front, Left and Right of Head with a stitch edges to rejoin the UV meshes.

Chicken Head Setup by Kris Kapp
Average vertices technique followed by a UV transfer. Rev. September, 2001.

Attacking Stretching by Andrew Camenisch | 2001
This excellent document covers: UV transfer, Cylindrical vs. spherical, Nurbs to Poly UV projection, Relaxing UV's and more. Top marks.

Using a MEL script: dannyUvTools to aid in the Unwrap process.
This technique seems interesting, but overly complicated and slightly bizarre.Rev. July 7, 2003.

Correcting Maya 4.5(and earlier) polySmooth UV map distortions.
Drone.org is a generally excellent resource for 3d artists. This technique is painful to execute and should be superceded by Maya 5.0's inclusion of a polysmoothUV option now available when smoothing poly's.

Workflow for accurate UV's in a PolySmoothProxy workflow provided by Ben Bathen

 

UV Tips
UV Tip - Align Faces to Camera and spFaceCamera.mel

swaps uv position between 2 or 3 uvs/vertices

Tranfer UV's to multiple identical surfaces simultaneously