Unfold 3D VS: See Orientation of Faces in UV View? [SOLVED]

Hi Remi,

Glad to be here.

I know it's not as clear as it could be. I'll see if I can word this a little better. This feature may already be present in Unfold.

Let's say I have a box that I've unfolded and laid out in Unfold3D. I have 6 planes if I separate all of them. The 'front' plane will be mapped (as a test) with a bitmap that shows an up arrow and right-pointing arrow, which has a very specific orientation to show the arrows properly on the mesh. So, on my model there's an 'up', a 'right', a 'left', etc.

However, when I'm looking at unfolded faces in U3D, I can't tell how that face or poly is going to relate to the original object. I can tell if a face is flipped or not (inverted faces shown in black), but I can't tell which part of the face will be 'up' or 'down' on my model. If I were to simply apply a texture to the unfolded UVs once back in Max, that 'up' arrow may be facing some other way, requiring rotating of UV shells in Max.

So, is there a good way to see the orientation of my faces in Unfold? The test map always shows the same way, despite the orientation of my face relative to the model. The idea was to have the test map as it is now but with an additional function in Unfold to see a display of orientation of the local faces as they might display in a 3D program with a bitmap applied (as opposed to a general tiling global test map). What I'm trying to see (before I get back to Max) is whether my UV shells are human-readable and as organized as I can make them, so I know that 'up' is up (top of bitmap will be a top of UV shell, left on left, etc.). Maybe I just need to load a custom bitmap to see this better?  

Hopefully this is clearer than mud, haha. Thanks much.



Dan