From the course: 3ds Max 2018: Mastering UVW Mapping

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The Arrange Elements tool set

The Arrange Elements tool set - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max 2018: Mastering UVW Mapping

The Arrange Elements tool set

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take a look at some of the organizational tools that we have available for when it comes time to arrange our UV clusters inside the zero to one space. These can be found inside the Arrange Elements rollout. Before we look at these though, it is important to note that they can be used on either all of the UV clusters at once or on a very specific selection. If we want to work on all of the elements at once, it isn't necessary to select them all, as simply having no selection will ensure that this happens. Before we use these controls then, let's make sure that we are in polygon sub-object mode and that the element toggle is switched on. Let's just click in some empty space to ensure that we have nothing selected. Coming to our controls, the first button we see is the Pack Custom option, and if we click on it, we see all of our clusters reordered to fit inside the zero to one space. If we press Ctrl + Z, and drag a marquee selection over a…

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