The final version of the documentation for Maya is still under construction. This temporary version is based on the Blender documentation, though its contents is relevant to Maya as well (both variants use the analogical UI).
User Interface
In order to open the UVPackmaster UI, go to the Tools menu in the UV editor and choose Show UVPackmaster3:
The UVPackmaster UI is split into a set of multi panels:
You choose which multi panels to show by using toggles on the left in the UVPackmaster3 tab. Every toggle drives a single multi panel. You can press a toggle with Shift in order to enable more than one multi panel at a given moment. Contents of currently selected multi panels are displayed in the main column of the UVPackmaster3 tab.
You can also make the add-on draw the multi panel toggles in the horizontal layout by enabling the Horizontal Multi Panel Toggles option in the global add-on preferences:
Multi panels
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Utilities | Provides a set of useful tools which are always displayed on the very top of the tab, if the multi panel is enabled. |
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Packing | Provides UV packing functionalities of UVPackmaster. |
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Aligning | Provides UV aligning (stacking) functionalities of UVPackmaster. |
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Grouping Editor | Provides tools exclusively dedicated to defining and tuning island grouping schemes. |
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Other Tools | Miscellaneous tools which do not suit to any other category. |
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Statistics | Shows the statistics of the last packing operation. |
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Add-on Preferences | Displays the global properties of the UVPackmaster add-on. |