How to select overlapping UV's?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Nearly finished a prop and noticed there is a small overlap on one of the UV's. I remember in a tutorial the guy shows how to check for them by selecting any overlapping ones. I cant remember the tutorial it was from though, or if it was part of an add-on.

Anyone know how to do it?

[The Renderer]

I think that was an addon, I don't think Blender can do that by default (not 100% sure, though). Might have been TexTools or something like that.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Thanks for the reply, il check out some addons see if i can find it. I guess if i just select all UV's overlaps will be a bit darker? Might be hard to spot though, its a bit of a complicated UV layout. at least i know where this one is, roughly :)

[hellatze]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Thanks for the reply, il check out some addons see if i can find it. I guess if i just select all UV's overlaps will be a bit darker? Might be hard to spot though, its a bit of a complicated UV layout. at least i know where this one is, roughly :)

press L

[The Renderer]

If you select everything, you will see overlapping faces in the UV editor since the faces are translucent, so yes, overlapping parts are "darker" (more opaque), it's quite easy to see.

You can also select all vertices that share the same UV "island" by hovering over the UV map and hitting "L" as hellatze says above. This way you can switch through them and see if they overlap neighboring ones. Note that "L" is additive, so make sure none are selected before you do it.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Awesome, thanks guys, im just about to re unwrap it now so il be able to give this a go soon.

Was so gutted when i spotted the error because i was just about to do the final texture painting. On the bright side seen as i was gonna have to mess with the UV's again, i added some more geometry details i really wanted on it :)