# UE4 is telling me I have overlapping UV's

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-is-telling-me-i-have-overlapping-uvs/476589>\
**Category:** Asset Creation\
**Tags:** Maya, overlapping-uvs, unreal-engine, UE4, question\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-is-telling-me-i-have-overlapping-uvs/476589 "2020-12-30T23:42:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayke](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jayke](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jayke)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-is-telling-me-i-have-overlapping-uvs/476589/1 "2020-12-30T23:42:01Z")

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I’ve created my own objects in Maya and UV mapped them all with no issues and no overlapping or flipped UV’s. However after importing them to Unreal Engine and attempting to build the lighting I get warnings that two of my objects have overlapping UV’s, one with 25 or so percent and the other with 50% overlapping. I’ve also noticed that after importing the objects, some of the edges became distorted as if the smoothing got screwed up. As I know next to nothing about UV mapping any help is greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![ClockworkOcean](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/clockworkocean/32/1169999_2.png) [@ClockworkOcean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ClockworkOcean)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-is-telling-me-i-have-overlapping-uvs/476589/2 "2020-12-31T12:46:02Z")

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Take a look at the mesh in the mesh editor, you can see if the UVs look there. UE uses the material UVs on import to compute the lightmap UVs, so one being screwed up will lead to the other having the same problem.

Channel 0 is the material UV, channel 1 is the lightmap:

 ![326000-screenshot-2.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/5/9/c59fa6c722f91e6ccc61082986a01f38eb9f7043.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Jayke](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jayke](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jayke)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-is-telling-me-i-have-overlapping-uvs/476589/3 "2021-01-02T20:44:19Z")

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When I open the UVs in UE4 this is what I see.

 ![326131-untitled-1.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/5/2/d/52d01f909945b12a0d4976ec9b47e9d83d68260f.jpeg)

It looks like a mess so I’m going to just lower the polys of the model in Maya and re-export it and go from there.  
Thanks.