I’m looking at mudbox 2012 and the ptex feature and I’m seeing and hearing lots about ptex-mudbox-maya, which is fine, but I work in max. So here’s a simple noob question about mudbox 2012:

can mudbox-ptex allow me to bring in an object from max without uvs?

Thanks for your time.

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there is no native ptex support in max…
think its better to use the automatic uvs in mudbox…

or thry this plugin here…
http://www.mankua.com/Stripes/Stripes.php

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christoph-schaedl/6/558/73b

yes you could use the automatic UV feature and jump back to max…

ptex is a different way to create UVS and store your texture data… its also a file format… you wont have the ability to use “normal” texture files like .tga or .tif… its storing all the data into a ptex file… if you like to know more… take a look…

http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/ptex/ptex-slides.pdf
http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/ptex/ptex.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNgy2CYEvfI

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christoph-schaedl/6/558/73b

the layout looks like evenly layout squares… you cant use them in photoshop to paint on…
its a big mess of uv shells… but its great for fast work in mud…

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christoph-schaedl/6/558/73b

My issues with automated uvs is that it becomes near impossible to load maps in and out of memory when painting maps in mudbox beacause the uv coords tend to not be grouped by location across multiple tiles.

With carefully crafted uv coords accross multiple tiles, you can easily load areas of the model in and out of ram.

With things like auto uv or even ptex, mudbox doesnt always load every tile automatically like you would expect.