Merging UV Map Islands

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi, I’m trying to map a low-poly helmet I created for a game but to save space on the file I’m Uv mapping onto the helmet, I was wandering if its possible to merge the mirror islands together. Here’s a picture of my UV map layout after unwrapping:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/Blackbird-SR-71/UVlayout_Barrel_Helmet_03_Figu.png
UVlayout_Barrel_Helmet_03_Figu.png512×512

Would it be possible to somehow merge (or at least move an island to be on top of its mirror)? I tried to do it by rotating and moving but it faces the other way so it doesn’t work.
Thank you. :slight_smile:

2

Try scaling an island on the mirror axis (the Y-axis according to your image) at an amount of -1.0 . . . along with any necessary rotations.

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3

Okay that did the trick. :slight_smile: Thank you for the insight and help.

4

you can also stitch islands together. see wiki on working with UV islands.