UniV

Changelog

This update includes a tremendous amount of work to support Blender 5.0 with its long-awaited synchronized UV mode. Thanks to a few clever tricks, older versions - all the way back to Blender 3.2 - are still supported.

Overall performance of the add-on has been preserved and even improved in some areas.

Many operators in Blender 5.0 do not switch to Face Mode when deselecting (which served to avoid deselecting random elements).

Despite the need to support the new selection system - which took a significant amount of time - the long-awaited Symmetrize operator has been added. In addition, performance has been improved, bugs have been fixed, and the behavior of many operators has been refined.

Several operators also received the new View Box Sync Block system, which clips accidentally selected verts and edges based on the visible area. With Blender 5.0 this feature is less relevant, but for those who can’t upgrade yet, it's an excellent helper.

Add:

• Blender 5.0 compatibility
• Add prototype View Box Sync Block system (for Align and Orient)
• Add Symmetrize [Alt+X] operator
• UI: Added collapsible subpanels

Improve:

• Blender 5.0: Mode Set [1, 2, 3, 4] - button 4 emulates switching to island mode
• Pick System: SpeedUp x1.5 found nearest edge for Blender 5.0
• Straight: Support old sync mode and performance improvement
• Quadrify: Improved best-face detection for initial quadrification
• UI: improved subpanels order in the 3D viewport for consistency with 2D
• Added the ability to set custom texture resolution for TD presets
• Focus: Takes the T-Panel into account
• Pin: Add Toggle system instead Set/Clear
• Make addon settings independent of the scene
• Weld: Improve performance and revert report info and very small distances are connected
• Border: Improve performance, handle very small distance matching, and fix selected UV face iteration

Fix:

• Inspect: Flip: Fixed incorrect behavior caused by loss of float precision
• SplitUVToggle [Shift+T]: Fix crash if the area object was already deleted (caused by a quick tap)
• Select Linked: Fix: Delimit is no longer set automatically in Normal mode
• QuickSnap | Drag: Add snap by Cursor
• Fix keymaps menu for older version
• Align: Fix calling CENTER | HORIZONTAL | VERTICAL in elem mode when all vertices deselected
• Focus: Unselected vertices and edges no longer affect operations in face mode
• Flatten: Fix GN for Blender 5.0
• Unwrap: Fix error when calling operator without selected geometry

Removed:

• Align: Remove Cursor Align (use Set Cursor 2D [Ctrl+Shift+MiddleMouse] instead)

Changelog

It's been a year since the first release, and I'm happy to present to you a small but quite important update before something bigger to come.

Add:

• Add Check Over operator
• Add Toggle T,N-Panels by Mouse Cursor [Alt+T]
• Add Pie Menu for transform operator [T]
• Add Select Linked operator for consistency with the UV space [Ctrl+Shift+Wheel Up/Down]
• Add Select Linked Pick operator for consistency with the UV space [Shift+Wheel Up/Down]
• Add Toggle Pivot operator for General Pie Menu [`] in UV space
• Add Pie Menu for Texel operator [Shift+A] and fix potential crash
• Add Reset 3D operator
• Add Select Mode operator [1,2,3,4]
• Add keymap for Select Similar [Shift+G]

Fix:

• Unwrap: Fix inplacing
• Move Up/Down (UV-channel) only renamed UVs in Edit Mode
• Quadrify: Fixed an issue where not all edges were included in the average edge length calculation.
• Quadrify: Neighboring unlinked edges no longer affect the result for the current edge.
• Fix: UV Layer layout now works without selected objects in edit mode
• Fix: Crash when use toggle modifier
• Raycast now ignores objects that are not in edit mode
• Fix the raycast on objects with the modifier
• Grow Select: Fix (de)selection when sticky is disabled in face non-sync mode
• Fix: Remove modified keys (CSA+Click) for Pie Menus
• Fix alignment of buttons when resolution scale is less than 0.98 and fix info about the Pro version.
• Fix: Crash in size settings due to recursive property updates causing stack overflow
• Fix call View Projection from Pie Menu
• Fix line width and point size for Vulkan in most cases.
• Fix: Align: some selected edges not moving, and corrected vertex influence in non-vertex mode

Improve:

• Improve UI and fix potential crash
• Remove Texel operators from general pie menu and add Ring and Inner (select) operators instead
• Improve Individual Scale
• Improve performance x1.15-3 for Normalize, Reset, Adjust, Rectify and Quadrify
• Add icons for TD Get/Set, Area, Coverage and Flatten operators
• Stack: Improve stacking single face islands
• Box Projection: Allow unselected faces and add Avoid Flip option
• UVPM (optional): Support for the latest version added.
• Improve keymaps UI
• Flipped | Zero: Improve report info and added accounting uv sticky select mode
• Home: Improve performance for large scene
• Replace padding with padding multiplayer

Changelog

This release adds a Workspace Tool featuring a Pie Menu and various operators with easier access. The Stitch operator has been improved. The Inspect system has been reworked. A new “Align by Angle” option was added to the Align operator. Many new texel-related operators have been introduced. More operators now support the Pick system, which also works in the 3D viewport via the Workspace Tool.

Add:

• UI: Add Monochrome icons
• UI: Add icon color editor
• UI: Add Workspace Tool for 3D
• UI: Add General Pie Menu for 3D Viewport [~]
• UI: Add General Pie Menu for UV Viewport [~]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Align operator [X]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Misc operators for UV Viewport [D]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Misc operators for Workspace [D]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Favorite operators for UV Viewport [Q]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Favorite operators for Workspace [Q]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Projects operators for Workspace [Shift+Q]
• UI: Add Pie Menu for Inspect operators for UV Viewport [F1]
• UI: Allow disabling the 3D View panel
• UI: Add property to change panel category
• UI: Keymap: Add filter by conflict keymaps
• UI: Keymap: Add filter by workspaces
• UI: Keymap: Add filter by spaces
• UI: Keymap: Add filter by name and by key
• Add 3D Viewport version of the Weld operator [W]
• Add 3D Viewport version of the Stitch operator [Shift+W]
• Add 3D Viewport version of the Relax operator [Alt+R]
• Add 3D Viewport version of the Unwrap operator [U]
• Add Batch Inspect System
• Align: Add Align Edge by Angle option for HV botton in Island Mode
• Align: Add Collect option for Center button in Island Mode
• Add Select by Vertex Count for Pie Menu View3D
• Add Use Modifier Keys option for disable CSA context invoke operation
• Add Flatten operator (convert UV to 3D)
• Add support UVPackmaster 3
• Add Calc UV Area operator
• Add Coverage operator
• Add Calc UDIMs from 3D Area operator
• Add TD From Texture operator
• Add TD from Physical Texture Size operator
• Add Copy to Layer operator
• Add "Split ToggleUV by Mouse Cursor" button in addon ui preferences
• Add Show Addon Preferences operator

Improve:

• Stitch: Add padding option
• Stitch: Add Aspect Ratio
• Stitch: Correct transform flipped islands (remove flip option)
• Stitch: Improved the uniformity of island multi-stitching and remove self weld
• Stitch: Allow zero length islands
• Stitch | Weld: Allow flipped 3d islands and add more warning info
• Weld | Stitch: Add Pick and Flash Line Drawer system
• Add Flash Line Drawer for Border operator and improve UI for Global Settings
• Random: Add Flip option
• Random: Island wrapping now correctly stays within image bounds
• Crop: Now positions islands as close as possible to their original location
• Cut2D: Add Aspect Ratio
• Cut3D: Add Pick System [C]
• Cut3D: Add Unwrap option
• Add Unselected option in Hide operator [H | Shift+H]
• Non-Splitted: Count Non-Manifold edges
• Non-Splitted: Check Non-Seam is now enabled by default and no longer configurable.
• Non-Splitted: No longer switches to Edge mode from Face or Island mode if no problematic edges are found.
• Performance: 1.25x speedup for all operators using rotation with uniform aspect ratio
• Grow and Loop Select 3D: Allow geometry without faces
• Select Grow: Speedup x30 and add support wire edge
• Select By Area: Improve threshold behavior
• Select Edge by Border: Add aspect ratio
• Unwrap | Relax: Add aspect ratio
• Moving Select Edge by Border operator into Border Select
• Zero and Flipped operators now select trouble faces with linked vertices in non-sync mode

Fix:

• Quadrify: Fix incorrect edge border detection and ring avg length causing UV island splits
• Fix: Force ensure icons
• Fix: UI List not update due to missing persistent handler after load blend file
• Fix: Use existing UV for Add UV operator and make it undoable
• Fix: Disable context dependency in keymaps for Align operator
• Fix: Crash in Checker operator due to recursive property updates causing stack overflow
• UI: Fix TD property update issue
• Relax: Fix grow select effect
• Fix: Grow3D selection state update issue resolved in specific cases
• Fix: Orient operator now applies only to selected islands, if any, without transforming the others
• Select Edge by Border: Fix bug related to zero-length edges causing errors in angle calculation
• Fix: Weld by Distance not affecting non-manifold 2D connections in Island mode when no vertices are selected
• Non-Splitted: Fixed false positives on 3D border edges.
• Fix: Ignore hidden verts and edges in Weld by Distance, Focus, and Pin operator
• Border Seam: Fix seam marking when the "All Channels" option is enabled
• Fix: Aspect Ratio now distinguishes between 3D and 2D views for Normalize, Adjust, and Reset operators

Changelog

Add:

• Add Hide operator [H]
• Add Focus operator [Numpad .]
• Add Stretch UV Toggle [Z, Z+Z]
• Add Show Modified UV Edges Toggle [Alt+Z]
• Add Set Cursor 2D [Ctrl + Shift + Middle Mouse] operator
• Select by TD: Add Compare Type option
• Set TD: Add Union Grouping Type option
• Cut: Add Pick system and line drawer
• Flip: Add Pick system [F]
• Rotate: Add Pick system [5]

Fix:

• Support Blender 4.4
• Fix: Context error when the active object lacked polygons
• Fix: SplitUVToggle operator crash when using version 4.4 and higher

Changelog

Add:

• Add icons system
• Add Shift operator
• Orient2D OT: Add pick system [O]
• Add Pick system to Adjust TD [Alt+A]
• Orient OT: Add Lock Overlaps option
• Add Texel Density System:
  • Add Get\Set Texel Density OT
  • Add Select by TD OT
  • Add TD Presets System
• Add UV Layer system:
  • Add Move Up/Down UV Layers OT
  • Add Remove/Add UV Layers OT
  • Add: Fix UV Layers OT
  • Add Sync selection
  • Add Batch UV Rename system
• Add Select Stacked OT
• UI: Add settings button in panel header
• UI: QuickSnap: Fix overlapping help menus with n-panel
• Add exact lock overlap option for Sort, Distribute, Random.
• Add Select by Area OT (Small, Medium and Large)
• Add Join Objects OT [Ctrl+J]
• Quadrify: Add Pick system [E]
• Quadrify: Add Aspect Ratio, Scale Independently and Shear
• Add View Projection OT
• Add Smart Projection OT
• Add Reset Scale OT
• Add Toggle option for Checker OT
• Unwrap: Add Pick system [U]
• Relax: Add Pick system [Alt+R]
• Overlap: Add inexact option
• Stitch: Add update seams option
• Edge Grow: Add support 3D viewport
• Edge Grow: Add support sync mode
• Edge Grow: Add Prioritize Sharps options
• Edge Grow: Add Boundary by Boundary options
• Grow: Add support 3D viewport and add clamp by seam option

Fix:

• Sort OT: Fix sort by area option
• Pick System: Fix division by zero
• Zero OT: Reduced threshold for zero area check
• Border OT: Now ignores unsynchronized mode
• Quadrify: Fix separating unselected and non-quad parts
• Quadrify: Incorrect quadrify when taking edge length from non target faces
• Unwrap: Fix: Effects on neighboring non-selected islands in sync face select mode
• Pick Select: Fix bug when island has incorrect type
• Angle: Use generic attributes for bevel weight edge
• Aspect Ratio: Indexing by valid socket name.
• SplitUVToggle: Fixed error when two 3D viewports are open
• Unwrap: Fix calling from non UV viewport
• Normalize | Adjust TD: Fix overstretching scale issues for zero-area triangles
• Fixed object being seen as empty after adding geometry to an empty object
• Fix error when no selected objects but an active object exists
• Overlap: Fix call context
• Fix error when disable addon

Improve:

• Unwrap: No effects on selected vert&edges without linked selected face when unlinked selected face exist (sync mode)
• Stitch OT: More correct mouse cursor targeting in sync mode
• Orient2D OT: Use concave to orient islands
• Get aspect ration from checker modifier
• Rename Orient [3D] to Gravity
• Home: Operator work with Array, Mirror, UVWarp modifiers
• Speedup: Discard lock overlap island groups by Boundary Box
• Improve Auto Axis for Sort and Distribute
• Home | Shift: Add support all modes and improve behavior

Changelog

Add:

• Add Edge Grow Select operator [Alt + Scroll Up/Down]
• Add Pick Select operator [Shift + Scroll Up/Down]
• Add Grow Select operator [Ctrl + Scroll Up/Down]
• Add Normalize operator [Shift + A]
• Add Adjust TD (from unselected islands) operator [Alt + A]
• Add Checker Map system
• Add Overlap Check operator
• Add Pack operator [P]
• Add Seams by Border operator
• Add Pin operator
• Improve Relax now uses the SLIM algorithm [Alt + R]
• Relax: The number of iterations is multiplied, when called repeatedly on the same island
• Add Organic(SLIM) mode for unwrap
• Normal Project OT: Add Mark Seam options and working with unselected faces
• Orient2D OT: Edge oriented by longest edge
• Orient2D OT: Island Orient works like Edge Orient when only the edges are selected
• Preferences: Improve Keymap ui
• Preferences: Add Keymap Conflict resolve system
• Keymap System: Added notification of completed actions
• Improve buttons for Align Operator
• Non-Splitted: Add Non-Seam mode
• Add more descriptions and improve UI

Fix:

• Straight: Doesn`t work in multi-window mode
• Stack: Fixed grouping in Selected Between mode
• Fixed options for Fill operator
• Flip OT: Alt context key now change flip axis
• Fixed operation in local mode

Changelog

Add:

• Add Between Selected mode for Stack operator
• Add information about the amount of found islands for Stack operator
• Add Alt+S (UV-area) keymap for Stack operator
• Add Correct Aspect for Rotate, Orient, Random, Box and Normal operators
• Random, Normal, Box, and Orient3D operators work in all interaction modes
• Additional Angle for Orient3D operator
• Mark Seam inner island property for Unwrap operator
• Add distance type, and rename properties for Weld by Distance operator
• Separate keymaps with conflicts from other keymaps
• Speedup x1.05-1.45 operators that use transformations
• Speedup x1.5 Weld operator

Remove:

• Single operator
• Select by View operator
• Move Cursor mode from Align operator

Rename:

• Plane operator to Normal
• Rename Inner operator to Non-Splitted and move to inspect

Fix:

• Most stable behavior of the Unwrap operator (islands don't rotate)
• Fix context, operators could be called with other object types
• More correct context handling for SplitUVToggle operator if it was called outside the viewport
• Fix flips for overlapped islands of Flip operator, and remove Flipped Individual mode (Flipped now works as Flipped Individual )
• More correct selection by the SyncUVToggle OT in Vertex and Edge mode
• Correct edge welding for Weld operator, when the islands were only connected by a single vertex.
• Improve Unwrap Along behavior for Unwrap operator

Changelog

Removed sys module that may violate policies