Uv mapping problems

[jthep]

Has anyone had your Uv map get all tangle and twisted while you were working on it? I am currently trying to unwrap my full nude figure. I was makeing good progress untill my uv got twisted. This is not the first time it has happened to me. I had saved another version with a lot mapped and when I reopened it on another day it was all twisted up. I thought it was some wierd glitch but now it happened to me while I was working on it. This problem is getting me nowhere because it stops me from making any progress which waste valueble time because I have to remap all over again.

[jthep]

pic

here is a pic if this helps any

[Professor Watkins]

did this happen suddenly, or when you smoothed it or what?

It looks like a model that just barely got started in the UV layout.

[jthep]

not smooth

yea thats the problem, i get started and when i reopened it it looks as if i didn't do anything

[Professor Watkins]

what does the UV Texture Editor look like? Does it change?

[jthep]

uv layout

yeah it looks like someone just grabed random points and move them everywhere

[Professor Watkins]

and this is after you had mapped other regions?

[jthep]

yeah i was working on mapping from the nose down to the stomach. then the points all of a sudden twisted and jumped all over the place. Right now I am working on just the face and everything is normal for now