Modeling: Fix Suzanne's UV map #106652
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This patch fixes Suzanne's UV map, making it more symmetrical and adding the missing face on the ear.
I previously had this patch on the old developer website, but I can't find it so I redid it.
UV map looks nice to with me, but will leave review and commit to @Chris_Blackbourn since he is actively working in this area.
Modelling: Fix Suzanne's UV mapto Modeling: Fix Suzanne's UV mapUVs do seem improved in this version. Perhaps try using the "Relax Tool" with the "Geometry" relaxation method to clean them up even further. It can help resolve the symmetries in the eye-balls, and clean up some of the loops in the eye-sockets.
Here's a really rough programmer version for example:
A more philosophical issue is that we actually use the Suzanne model for testing the UV tools themselves.
e.g. Here's bug report would be "closed" by changing the default UVs, but without fixing the underlying issue: #102683
For that reason, we need to be really cautious about changing the default model, and also very obvious when we change it so we know which version is which. Perhaps completely changing the layout would make more sense, e.g. something closer to:
@brecht , how have we resolved these kinds of change-the-default-model-and-invalidate-downstream-dependencies in the past? It's not just bug reports, it's documentation, tutorials, etc...
Good points. Since Suzanne is a test model I could add a "Use Legacy" checkbox to use the old UV map if needed?
I haven't tried relax yet, but I tried minimize stretch. It improved the UVs but had some distortion artifacts. I used it lightly around the mouth to keep the original UV appearance. I'll try using relax instead.
Blender's base UV tools could be improved, though I don't see an issue with updating the monkey UVs for now. The root problem can be addressed later.
The eyes in the programmer version have a distorted appearance which I wanted to avoid. I mainly focused on making the face area even.
Updated the UV map, used the relax tool and adjusted layout
There's no single solution, it needs to be looked at case by case. Here I don't think we need to do anything.
For a bug report like #102683 the developer looking at it just needs to open an older Blender version and save the file. I don't think we should swap the order of islands to make the lives of developers easier, for user compatibility it's better to keep it the same as before.
Swapped order of islands as suggested by Brecht
Nice!
The other thing to maybe try is to make the ears a bit more rectangular in UV space, which frees up a little bit of extra texture space for the eye balls.
Speaking of Suzanne's eyeballs, there's an issue with the geometry too:
That being said, from a code POV, the change LGTM...
(Relax tool with "HC" Relaxation Method will help make the eyeballs symmetric)
Heyas! Is there a status update on this one? Would be nice to land for 3.6 ...
Can this just be committed as is? The main thing here is to fix the problem which was done. This is an asset for testing, trying to squeeze out small packing efficiency improvements does not seen like a good use of @MysteryPancake 's time.
Sorry for the delay, will update with the suggested rectangular UV layout soon.
Might as well keep it tidy since it probably won't be updated again for a while.
cee7132485to7bdd843b92New rectangular layout as suggested
Looks great!
Saw this mentioned in the Developer Meeting Notes topic on BA -- looking at it in blender-4.0.0-alpha+main.bdd189f593ac-windows.amd64-release from the Daily Builds page, and the improvements are much appreciated! But given that "making it more symmetrical" was one of the goals, shouldn't all 23 of the monkeyface's centerline vertices be on the center of the UV map, 0.500000? I found the average at 0.499365. Or is that still upcoming with getting the rest of that island symmetrical?
It's close enough for our purposes, doesn't need to be more exact.
@KickAir8p if you send a more symmetric version I can update, I'm not too sure how to get perfect symmetry myself
Happy to help! Used blender-4.0.0-alpha+main.3ca1e828e22b-windows.amd64-release from the Daily Builds page. Excluded the UV islands of the ears and eyes from any changes. Changed the X coordinate of each of the monkeyface island's centerline vertices to 0.500000 . Deleted all X+ faces of that island and mirrored from the X- faces to force symmetry. I won't say it's absolutely perfect, but it's as close as can be done in Blender IMHO, which should be sufficient (I'm happier with it, anyway).
@MysteryPancake will that do? Anything else needed to get this in? I know that with the new release schedule we've got till latish August for "new features and changes", not trying to rush you, just wanna make sure I've done my bit.