[Feature Request] Modify Texture when moving the selected UV islands around by hand

[Radivarig]

It would be really powerful to be able to move the texture with the uv selection to a new arbitrary position.

Minimal implementation:

1. Make a UV selection
2. Press button Copy Texture
3. Move UV to a new location
4. Press button Paste Texture

Ideal implementation:

1. Make a UV selection
2. Press button Move UV
3. Move the selection around
4. On move start: 4.1 Apply Copy Texture 4.2 Render it under the UV selection being moved
5. On move end: 5.1 Apply Paste Texture

[noio]

Hey!

Yep. 'Preserving' the texture through arbitrary UV modifications would be really powerful and cool!

You can do something very similar to what you describe already, the steps are:

1. Duplicate current UVMap
2. Modify new UV map as desired
3. Bake from old UV map to new UV map. The plugin has a button for this. IIRC you need 2 UV maps and you have to be in Object Mode