First of all, I have to say that it is purely a coincidence that I have done two posts in a row with a picture of a skull.  I really don't have a thing for skulls I promise.  The one that I used in this demo just happened to be a good test case for the tool.  

I'll really try to resist including any skulls in my post next week :) 

Aside from working on this new UV tool I'm preparing for my sessions at MIGS next week.  MIGS = Montreal International Game Summit.  If you live in Quebec, or if you happen to be traveling there for MIGS, stop by and check out my sessions...

• Modeling and Animation Tools for Game Pipelines

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• Realistic Modeling for Game Production

So, this new UV tool that I'm showing in the following movie is based on something I did a long, long, long time ago for Sega in SF.  It became a bonusTool called Automatic Wrap Map. 

You've probably never tried it but if you did you probably found it completely unintuitive and somewhat limited.  So this new tools is based on it in general, but it is much improved and hopefully much more useful.  It's called Auto Unwrap UVs Tool

It can be used to interactively and automatically create UVs for lots of different types of forms.  Check out the movie below to see how it works.  If you're interested, or as we sometimes say in Texas "inersted", I've posted a beta version of the script that you can try out (see link at the bottom of the page)

Here is the script is you'd like to give it a whirl ->  bt_autoUnwrapUVTool_beta2

It's in a late beta form, which means it works pretty well for me and I think I've ironed out most of the glitches, but it hasn't been thoroughly tested by others.  Any feedback would be great.  Just open the script in the Script Editor, then select it and drag it onto a shelf. The resulting shelf button should open the UI.

 **UPDATE**  The update to this tool is now available -> Unwrap UVs Tool Part 2