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and/or edges. You can change the highlight color

on the

Unwrap Options dialog (page 1–902)

Update Ma p—Refresh the editor window

background and displays the current texture

map. If you change a bitmap used in the object’s

material, choose U pdate Map to show the new

image in the Edit UVWs dialog editor window.

View menu

Zoom—Choose Zoom, and then drag downward

in the editor window to zoom out and upward to

zoom in. Zooming is centered about the point you

click before dragging.

If you have a wheel mouse, you can also turn the

wheel to zo om. Z o oming is centered about the

mouse cursor location.

Zoom E x tents—Zooms in or out to fit all UVW

vertices in the editor window.

Zoom R egion—To zo o m to a s p e c i f ic a re a , c ho os e

Zoom Region, and then drag a rectangle in the

editor window.

Zoom To Gi zmo—Zooms the active viewport to the

current select ion.

Zoom E xtents S elected—Zooms in or out to fit all

selected UVW vertices in the window.

Pan—Choose Pan, and then drag in the w indow to

change the visible portion.

If you use a three-button mouse, you can a lso pan

by middle-button dragging.

UV W Editor Dialogs

Flatten Mapping Dialog

Select an object. > Modify panel > Modifier List >

Object-Space M o difiers > U n wrap UVW > Edit button (on

Parameters rollout) > Mapping menu > Flatten Mapping

The Flatten Mapping method of procedura l

mapping applies planar maps to groups of

contiguous faces that fall within a specified angle

threshold. It prevents overlap of mapping clusters,

but can stil l cause texture distortion. The Flatten

Mappingdialogletsyoucontrolhowclustersare

defined and mapped.