UV Texture Editor Image menu

For more information on using the features in this menu see Display a texture behind the UVs.

Display Image

Shows or hides the texture image. This item can also be found in the UV Texture Editor toolbar for quick access. See UV Texture Editor toolbar.

Dim Image

Reduces the brightness of the currently displayed background image. Dimming the background image lets you more easily view and select components in the UV Texture Editor’s view. Selecting the item toggles it on or off depending on its current state.

Display Unfiltered

Turns off pixel blurring to show exact pixel boundaries. This item can also be found in the UV Texture Editor toolbar for quick access. See UV Texture Editor toolbar.

Shade UVs

Shades active UV shells in a semitransparent way.

Using Shade UVs you can:

• Display areas where UVs and UV shells overlap within the 2D view of the UV Texture Editor. Regions where UVs and UV shells overlap are shaded with more opacity when compared to the default shading. See also Display overlapping UVs.
• Displays the UV winding order for UV shells as they appear within the 2D view of the UV Texture Editor. UV shells that are front facing (that is have a clockwise winding order), are shaded blue. UV shells that are back facing (that is have a counterclockwise winding order), are shaded red. See also Display UV winding order.

Front facing color

Specifies the shaded color for UV shells with a clockwise winding order. The default color is blue.

Front facing alpha

Specifies the transparency value for the front-facing shaded UV shells. A value of 0 is fully transparent while a value of 1 is fully opaque. The default is 0.25.

Back facing color

Specifies the shaded color for UV shells with a counterclockwise winding order. The default color is red.

Back facing alpha

Specifies the transparency value for the back-facing shaded UV shells. A value of 0 is fully transparent while a value of 1 is fully opaque. The default is 0.25.

Display RGB Channels, Display Alpha Channel

Switch between displaying the texture image and its alpha (transparency) channel. These items can also be found in the UV Texture Editor toolbar for quick access. See UV Texture Editor toolbar.

Pixel Snap

Determines whether or not to automatically snap UVs to pixels. Snapping is to pixel corners or centers. This item can also be found in the UV Texture Editor toolbar for quick access. See UV Texture Editor toolbar.

Placement

Select where Pixels snap to.

Snap corner

When on, the selected UVs snap to the corners of other UVs.

Snap center

When on, the selected UVs snap to the centers of other UVs.

Image Range

Use these settings to change how much of the texture appears in the texture editor.

Minimum U/V and Maximum U/V

You can explicitly set the size of the image by setting these options, or you can select one of the presets.

Presets

Select one of the preset image ranges and click Apply.

None

The texture space is defined by the Minimum and Maximum U and V values.

Grid size

The texture fills the extent of the grid (defined in the Grid Options window).

Unit size

The texture fills the 0 to 1 (or unit) texture space.

Use Image Ratio

Switches between showing square texture space and texture space with the same ratio of width to height as the image. This item can also be found in the UV Texture Editor toolbar for quick access. See UV Texture Editor toolbar.

UV Texture Editor Baking

Bakes the texture and stores it in memory. See also UV Texture Editor toolbar.

Baked texture resolution

The resolution used when baking the texture.

Related topics

• UV Texture Editor menu bar
• UV Texture Editor overivew