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Originally Posted by bwtr Is that UV mapper "frame" the same as a "bounding box" in Carrara? |
no, it isn't a bounding box at all !!!
the bounding box is the "limits" of your object.
a "gizmo" (I haven't seen noowhere how they are called on UVMapper... so I will caled them "gizmos" ;) ) is a "representation" of the method you use to unwrap your model. For exemple, if with want unwrap your mesh with the "planar" projection (the most basic), your gizmo wil be a plan.
like that :
http://www.uvmapper.com/interactive3.png
if you do a rotation of this gizmo, this plan, the axis of the projection will change too, and then your UV map.
If you have UVMapper, the best way to understand is to test it. move the gizmo, and the UV change in realtime. It's really fun to use it
instead of having a lot of parameters for the projection, you have a plan, which represents the projection, and to move this plan change automatically the paramaters (axis of projection, limit of projection, center of projection...)