3DS Max - How to unwrap long objects

Filip5

Hey guys, I wonder how do you approach unwrapping long and large objects. I could just scale the thing down, but then texturing is not up to quality I would like it to be. Te smaller the unwrap, the blurrier textures are. So what is the best way to unwrap the circle wall part ?
 

musashidan

For an object that large you'll have to use tiling textures. It's way too big for a unique texture that won't be  blurry. You can blend different textures and use decals to break up the repetition. 

Portgas

Cut it in several parts to make each one occupy more uv space or just uv only one section of it and clone it if you don't need a 100% unique texture for the mesh. Heck, you can take a half of each 'section' and mirror it horizontally even. Usually, the textures for such things are tiled and unique elements are added via decals (alpha planes or whatever).