Overlays

Overlays#

The UV Flow add-on provides helpful overlays to enhance your workflow while unwrapping.

Seams#

You can customize the appearance of seams in the following ways:

  • Seam Color: Control the color of your seams for better visibility.

  • Solidify Option: Temporarily applies a non-destructive geometry node effect while the tool is active, displaying seams as solid curves. The thickness is based on the size of the mesh and can be fine-tuned with the Size setting.

  • Brightness Setting: Adjusts the brightness of the seams. While increasing brightness may not significantly affect the solid view, it can make seams glow in material preview or rendered view.

Checker Texture#

The Checker Texture options control the application of a grid texture to the model while the tool is active. You can choose from the default Blender grids or custom textures.

  • Visibility in Object Mode: If you want the checker texture to be visible even when not using the tool, enable it for selected objects in Object mode within the UV Flow section of the Object menu.

  • Viewport Display: Enabling a checker texture while Blender’s solid mode color is not set to Texture will make the selected object textured while keeping the rest untextured, maintaining a clean viewport. This is achieved by setting all other objects’ viewport display property to Solid. UV Flow will revert this change once no checker textures are enabled in the scene.