Transfer uvs from static character to the same rigged and animated character.

Support Materials and Textures
#1

Hello there, I’m having some troubles with some low polies characters I’m working on.

The problem is quite simple, I have a static character, which is not rigged, this one is fully unwrapped and textured.
Next to it, I have as well, the same mesh, this time rigged and animated, but uvs aren’t done yet.

So what I would like to simply do, is to apply uvs from my static mesh to the one animated, as they are the same, that should work whitout any problem. (Although I mostly use this only on statics meshes usually, first time I try with an animated mesh and that doesn’t work).

Anyway, I use CTRL+L (the join uvs function in fact). When I open the uvs of my animated mesh, they look good, well unwrapped, but on my model, the texture seems totaly messed up, not applied correctly.

Anyone would have an idea, a way to fix it please ?

It’s really important for me to have this function working on animated character in this case…

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#2

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#3

Thanks but after some hours looking for a solution, It seems, It’s now working corretly. It seems I’ve found a way to fix it.

Here is the way I fixed my issue.

  1. I deleted the half of the animated and rigged character (I left the skeleton, I just deleted the half of the polygons once again).

2)I deleted as well the half of the static mesh which has overlapped uvs (as a mirror modifier had been applied just after I had done the uvs on the half of the mesh, uvs were still good).

  1. I copied the uvs from my static mesh, to the destination object (the animated character) => CTRL+L -> transfer uvs LAYOUT, and magic, it works !!!

I don’t fully understand why this way it works, but maybe It’s related to the fact my uvs were at first overlapped…
As to save some uvs space, I had uved the half of the character and then apply a mirror modifier, which means uvs were overlapped, quite normal…

I hope It’s clear and that will help other people who might need some help for a similar issue.