Select, Move, Rotate, Scale

Section Video: UV Editor Toolbar: Manipulators

This first group of buttons contains shortcuts to the standard Unity manipulation modes. Clicking these will have the exact same effect as clicking on the main Unity toolbar buttons.

Vertex, Edge Face

Section Video: UV Editor Toolbar: Element Selection

The second button group contains shortcuts to ProBuilder's Element Editing Modes. When using Manual UV Editing, this allows you to select and manipulate UVs by Vertex, Edge, or Face.

Note: When using Auto UVs you may only edit UVs by face. Editing an Edge or Vertex will convert the selected UVs to Manual UVs.

In-Scene Controls Toggle In-Scene Controls

Section Video: UV Editor Toolbar: In-Scene Controls

When On, you can use Unity's standard Move, Rotate, and Scale tools to directly manipulate UVs in the scene, without affecting geometry.

Toolbar Icon Description
In-Scene ON On : Move, Rotate, and Scale tools will affect UVs, geometry will not be affected
In-Scene OFF Off : Move, Rotate, and Scale tools will return to normal geometry actions

Snap to increments by holding CTRL . You can customize these increment values via the ProBuilder Preferences

Texture Preview Toggle Texture Preview

Section Video: UV Editor Toolbar: Texture Preview

When On, the selected face's main texture will be displayed in the UV Viewer.

Toolbar Icon Description
In-Scene ON On : Selected element's Texture will be displayed in the UV Viewer
In-Scene OFF Off : No texture will be displayed in the UV Viewer

Render UV Template Button Render UV Template

Section Video: UV Editor Toolbar: Render UV Template

Opens the Render UVs tool panel, for rendering UV Templates to be used with texture map painting, atlasing, sprite sheets, etc.

  • Image Size : Total size of the rendered template (always square)

  • Hide Grid : Should the grid be hidden in the render?

  • Line Color : What color should UV lines be rendered as?

  • Transparent Background : Should the background be rendered transparent?

  • Background Color : If you want a non-transparent background, set the color here

  • Save UV Template : Click to render the UV Template - a file dialog will be opened to save the file.