Re: [Gimp-developer] UV mapping of OBJ???

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:40 PM Michal Vašut wrote:
> Hello, I've just read an article at Gimp site (
> https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/01/02/gimp-and-gegl-in-2018/ )  and here is
> proposal of possible new feature mentioned there:
>
> "There are all sorts of other interesting ideas for plug-ins, like UV
> unwrapping
> from OBJ files for texturing."
>
> Is that really necessary in 2D editor? Let the 3D artist export UV
> wireframe in 3D software of his / her choice into some 2D format and then
> he / she can work on texture even with current version of Gimp. 3D software
> suites today already have functionality for UV mapping and even painting
> directly on the surface of model (resp. on mapped texture).
> What would be benefits of such thing in Gimp?

The important word there is "ideas". Ideas are not endorsements or plans.

So you don't like the idea. That's perfectly OK. There are more ideas
in the bug tracker, some of which you might like.

Alex