Straighten Quads UV | Maya Script

ABOUT

Straighten Quads UV is a uv tool, which unfolds uv shell in one click in straighten, grid-like way.
The only one condition: the topology of the selected uv shell should ONLY consist of QUADS.
Impressed by the similar tool in the Headus UV layout. It's very handy to get straight unfold uv shell in one click, especially working with cylindrical, wires kinds of models.

HOW TO USE

• Make Selection. You can select one or few or all Faces or UV vertices and seletion will expand on whole UV Shell. You can also select objects, than all UV Shells of each object with quad polygons will be unfolded.
• Choose options and press "Make Straighten UV" button.

INSTALLATION

• Put the file StraightenQuadsUV.pyc into \Documents\maya\20XX\scripts
• To add the script to shelve or run from scripteditor or to add a hotkey - use following 2 lines below (Python):

import StraightenQuadsUV as su

su.StraightenQuadsUV()