How to use the UV Relax tool in Modo 201

Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.

Learn how to use this powerhouse, polygon package with tips for everyone, from the beginner designer to the professionals. Watch this video tutorial to see how to use the UV Relax tool in Modo 201.

The Relax Tool is very useful for smoothing overlapping UV data, particularly in combination with the Unwrap tool. The tool has two modes, Unwrap and Spring. The Unwrap option uses the same method for untangling UVs as the Unwrap tool but in this context you can use the method to untangle existing UVs as opposed to only creating new ones. The Unwrap option is the default and for most cases will be the best option. The Spring setting is a global optimization solver that treats the UV data like a spring system and iterates through UV positions to try and find an optimal global solution. Spring solvers can be somewhat finicky about the scale of the data and the number of iterations which can result in an unstable solution in certain circumstances.