"No active face is not selected" when trying to UVmapping in an aligned regular way

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Hi, I have this:

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I read somewhere that I can obtain a regular UV mapping if I align some squares and then using U > From Active Quads.
But this sentence appears.
How to make it work?

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You need to have an active face selected. Simply select all your faces in face mode rather than vertex mode

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I have the same problem and that’s because its even I am in faces in edit mode I cannot see the center of any face, therefore couldn’t exist any face so I am not able to use the function “Follow the active quads” , that means the problem is somewhere else.
At least I took the object from the Blender kit and I did the Unwrap, also applied the modifiers and still it doesn’t work!

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Hi, you need to have an active face. Usually it is the last one selected.

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I opened another window in Blender in UV Editing Mode and now it seems it is working, I guess I had a bug because now I can see the faces (that dot in the middle of a face) which before I wasn t able to see it but now I do.
Thanks a lot for your prompt message!

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I think the dot only appears when you’re in face selection mode

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but I was and so I have mentioned in my first message, otherwise I wouldn`t have asked :slight_smile:
PS: Congrats for ur work, I just have seen your animations from Vimeo! :wink:

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“Faces” has to be checked in overlays as well. Otherwise I’m not sure what would have caused them to disappear…

Thank you! much appreciated.

@Cris4Design beware you can be in “faces” mode in the viewport but the “faces” mode in UV editor is independent from that.

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Well, than I guess I wasnt in the faces' mode in the "UV editor" window (the one u can access it with Shift F10), and there in the first time wasn t able to see the modes: vertex, edge, face and island at all; so thats why when I have actually switched from “Layout” workspace/window to “UV Editing” I was able to see the 4 modes for editing: vertex, edge, face and island and I was able to chose face mode.

But after doing the switch back for “Layout” workspace when I hit now Shift F10 I am able to see these 4 modes: vertex, edge, face and island, and yes I was all the time in Edit Mode :slight_smile:
that`s why I think it was a bug! :beetle: :blush:

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but how do i do that?

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In edit mode with your faces selected, deselect one face and then select it again. That will make the face the active face and it will be a lighter colour.

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