I turned on the Display stretched in the overlays in the UV Edit screen. Instead of getting blue quads, I got some funky colors and some blue-ish quads. I continued and Auto Aligned a quad into a square and tried to apply the Follow Active Quad. Nothing happened. Is this a 4.0.2 thing or did my Blender version drop some acid? (For whatever reason now I can submit a photo?). Will try again after posting this.
Indeed wrongwright ,
like Adrian said...you don't seem to have any quad active in your screenshot...
...and as for the colors, try changing the Stretch Overlay to Area (default is Angle, I think).
The picture I used wasn't a good one to illustrate the Follow Active Quad, I had tried it a few times but didn't take picture. Martin, I did change to Area, got mostly blue on the two side faces and green for top or tread part of the tire. I checked the model for doubles, I haven't found any. I've been watching the normals so no problems there. I am trying several quads at once but that doesn't work either.
Reverting back to previous save just because I couldn't undo anymore..but now that's going to take some time to redo. Back after dinner or so. Or will start fresh tomorrow.
I am following the video as described, step by step. Maybe at the beginning we applied scale, or I did anyway because seems like that's the cause of most problems. I checked many times for doubles. I checked many times for normals. Nothing. All good. I have redone this 2x already. The next time I do this I'll make a film. Sure, why not. I may not be soon as I need to cool down, this is starting to get to me. Thanks for the replies.
I'd rather post a file than try to post a video at this point. Thank you.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bKLvynyGvBH6xy0WmIzoihnzusaVDb9m/view?usp=share_link
So, wrongwright ,
What exactly is your problem..it works fine:
Just press OK...(I disabled the Stretch Overlay and the Image, for clarity)
Hey wrongwright
I downloaded your file and tried 'follow active quad', it worked perfectly for the top island.
Make sure you select the whole island and deselect the quad you auto aligned, then select it again to ensure it is the active quad.
Then you should have no issue with the follow active quad option.
You will need to repeat the complete process for each of the islands.
Odd, I got this by using the UV menu on the right side of the UV Editing window. It did change but it isn't so square looking.
finally...I used a different square/quad and got a better result. All from the right side of the screen, using the UV instead of the right-click method. Why would it work there and not the other way? Is bug or is my MacOS still not fully dev'd up yet? or what? Not wearing the correct socks? This has been frustrating. Thanks for all the words everyone.
You are not selecting all the quads on the island
In Blender v4.0+ you need to select all the quads.
We do advice using the version used in the course.
By using a different version, what you see in the video may not be exact info.
A simple thing such as selecting the whole island is the only difference here, and we mentioned the solution at the beginning of the thread.
Oh, sorry wrongwright ,
I never used it like that, but in 3.6 this worked as seen in the Course, but in 4.0, you need to select the Island, that you want to use the Follow Active Quads as mentioned a few times before...so like this:
As a note, it is better (for 'beginners') to use the Blender Version used in the Course, when following along.
