Help! Can't see my UVs...again!

[P4wood]

Hi! I am new to XSI and am desperately trying to learn the fundamentals as quickly as possible but I am having a very frustrating time with the UV Editor at the moment.

I have been trying to create a flattened map of my character to take into Photoshop and after several hours of tweaking the UVs I accidentally touched a cluster in the Explorer and all my UVs seem to have disappeared from the UV Editor! I have lost them several times by doing something stupid like this before and am just about at the end of my wits now. :(

Can someone please advise me how to get them back or tell me if I have actually lost all of that work.

Any help gratefully received. Thanks.

[MmAaXx]

try to go inside the properties of your obj (press 8) e looking for texture projection...if there is that file you have your UVW. ;)

[P4wood]

Thanks for the reply, Max!

I had already tried clicking on everything in the explorer, (Key 8), with the hope of bringing back the visibility of my UVs in the UV Editor but didn't get them to show up. Eventually I had to accept that all my efforts were lost and I started the process again from the point of creating new Unique UVs. The process went a little bit faster this time, as I was more familiar with the tools, but still took a couple of hours to keep the parts from overlapping. I managed to save an image file to work with in Photoshop so I am moving forward now but I sure have alot to learn about using the UV editor efficiently and safely.

Thanks again!

[mantom]

Well, digging around the explorer isn't going to bring your UVs back in the texture editor.

If the UV's are only disappearing in the Texture editor, then select your object and choose the texture projection from the "UVs" menu on the texture editor titlebar. If the menu is empty of texture projections, then your object doesn't have any texture projections applied to it - in which case you probably deleted it accidentally. XSI occasionally loses the hook to the texture space. So manually selecting the texture space again should bring it back. There's also the 'auto sync' button (dual arrows pointing horizontally in opposite directions). Make sure that button is on.

Matt

[P4wood]

Thank you very much for your guidance, Matt!
Just the ticket! :yes: