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).

Inconsistent Islands Error Handling

The user may specify parameters on a per-island basis for some packer operations (e.g. group number, per-island rotation step, lock group number etc.). The problem is that Maya does not internally maintain information about UV islands. That is why the user needs to specify aforementioned parameters on a per-UV face basis in the Maya UI. During the operation, the packer uses those per-face values to determine values assigned to UV islands.

The Inconsistent Islands error is returned by the packer every time the user assigns different parameter values to two faces belonging to a single UV island – in such a situation the packer cannot determine the parameter value for the island itself in the unambiguous way. After returning an error, the packer will also select all problematic islands, so that parameter assignment may be easily fixed by the user.

In order to fix this error, the user has to select every problematic island one by one, and assign a single parameter value to all faces in every island.

For example, if the packer returns an error such as the one in the picture above, it means that at least two faces of the given set of islands have a different Rotation Step values assigned.

Video tutorial

Handling of an exemplary Inconsistent Islands error was presented in the Groups To Tiles tutorial:

Allow inconsistent islands

You can also make the packer ignore inconsistent islands by enabling the general option Allow Inconsistent Islands:

When the option is enabled, the packer will not raise an error when it finds an island with inconsistent per-island parameter assignment. Instead, it will take the parameter value assigned to the island face with the lowest face id as the value for the entire island.