diff --git a/Scripts/Core/CSG/Polygon.cs b/Scripts/Core/CSG/Polygon.cs
index 0603629f..fec8e651 100644
--- a/Scripts/Core/CSG/Polygon.cs
+++ b/Scripts/Core/CSG/Polygon.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Reflection;
+using System;
 
 namespace Sabresaurus.SabreCSG
 {
@@ -107,6 +108,36 @@ public Polygon(Vertex[] vertices, Material material, bool isTemporary, bool user
 	        CalculatePlane();
 	    }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Polygon"/> class.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="vertices">The vertex positions of a <see cref="Vertex"/> that make up this polygonal shape. Normals and UVs will be zero (see <see cref="ResetVertexNormals"/> and <see cref="GenerateUvCoordinates"/> to generate them automatically).</param>
+        /// <param name="material">The Unity <see cref="UnityEngine.Material"/> applied to the surface of this polygon.</param>
+        /// <param name="isTemporary">If set to <c>true</c> excludes the polygon from the final CSG build, it's only temporarily created during the build process to determine whether a point is inside/outside of a convex chunk (usually you set this argument to <c>false</c>, also see <paramref name="userExcludeFromFinal"/>).</param>
+        /// <param name="userExcludeFromFinal">If set to <c>true</c> the user requested that this polygon be excluded from the final CSG build (i.e. not rendered, it does affect CSG operations).</param>
+        /// <param name="uniqueIndex">When a polygon is split or cloned, this number is preserved inside of those new polygons so they can track where they originally came from.</param>
+        /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">Thrown when <paramref name="vertices"/> is null.</exception>
+        /// <exception cref="ArgumentOutOfRangeException">A polygon must have at least 3 vertices.</exception>
+		public Polygon(Vector3[] vertices, Material material, bool isTemporary, bool userExcludeFromFinal, int uniqueIndex = -1)
+		{
+            if (vertices == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("vertices");
+            if (vertices.Length < 3) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("A polygon must have at least 3 vertices.");
+            // consideration: check array for null elements?
+
+            // create vertices from the vector3 array.
+            this.vertices = new Vertex[vertices.Length];
+			for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Length; i++)
+				this.vertices[i] = new Vertex(vertices[i], Vector3.zero, Vector2.zero);
+
+			this.material = material;
+			this.uniqueIndex = uniqueIndex;
+			this.excludeFromFinal = isTemporary;
+			this.userExcludeFromFinal = userExcludeFromFinal;
+
+            // calculate the cached plane.
+            CalculatePlane();
+		}
+
 	    public Polygon DeepCopy()
 	    {
 			return new Polygon(this.vertices.DeepCopy(), this.material, this.excludeFromFinal, this.userExcludeFromFinal, this.uniqueIndex);
@@ -402,6 +433,21 @@ public void RemoveExtraneousVertices()
 			}
 		}
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Generates the UV coordinates for this polygon automatically. This works similarly to the
+        /// "AutoUV" button in the surface editor. This method may throw warnings in the console if
+        /// the normal of the polygon is zero.
+        /// <para>You may have to call <see cref="CalculatePlane"/> first if you modified the polygon.</para>
+        /// </summary>
+        public void GenerateUvCoordinates()
+        {
+            // stolen code from the surface editor "AutoUV".
+            Quaternion cancellingRotation = Quaternion.Inverse(Quaternion.LookRotation(-Plane.normal));
+            // sets the uv at each point to the position on the plane.
+            for (int i = 0; i < vertices.Length; i++)
+                vertices[i].UV = (cancellingRotation * vertices[i].Position) * 0.5f;
+        }
+
 	    public static bool SplitPolygon(Polygon polygon, out Polygon frontPolygon, out Polygon backPolygon, out Vertex newVertex1, out Vertex newVertex2, UnityEngine.Plane clipPlane)
 		{
 			newVertex1 = null;