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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 04-09-2013 , 02:39 PM

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I've tried for four hours now to fix this UV map.
Flipping the faces and sew them togheter don't work as it want to switch it back to the other side.

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Can anyone kindly tell me how to fix this?

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# 2 04-09-2013 , 03:10 PM

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It's possible that the normals are actually flipped on the mesh itself for the red faces. Check the geometry itself.

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# 3 04-09-2013 , 04:27 PM

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Okay, thank you^^ But how do I check that?

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# 4 04-09-2013 , 04:41 PM

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One way is to turn off two-sided lighting in the viewport panel menu. Then any faces that are the wrong way around will turn black. You can reverse them with normals > reverse.

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# 5 04-09-2013 , 07:30 PM

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One way is to turn off two-sided lighting in the viewport panel menu. Then any faces that are the wrong way around will turn black. You can reverse them with normals > reverse.

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It was that! Thank you so much^^