A useful tool for the users of 3DS Max.
Have a look at UVPackmaster 2, a fully-featured UV packing engine also as a plugin for 3ds Max. The tool was written in C++ giving the ability to perform packing on CPU, as well as on Cuda-enabled GPUs.
Features:
- Efficient UV packing algorithm
- UV islands area measurement
- Overlapping UV islands detection
- Heuristic search algorithm
- Packing for a non-square texture
- Add new UV islands into an existing packing
- Accurate pixel margin calculation
- Overlapping UV islands lock
- Grouping UV islands
- UDIM support
- Advanced heuristic algorithm
- Packing on GPU
- Heuristic search on all devices simultaneously (CPU and all GPUs)
Please note that purchasing the UVPackmaster plugin for 3ds Max will grant you a lifetime license, plus access to all future updates of the plugin for free.
You can learn more and get the tool (there are several options available) here.