[Blender] alternative to UDIM features?

rafastrip

Hi everyone , I notice blender has not UDIM option for Uv's layout , any  alternative ? addon? or manual process ? I always use "texture atlasing" addon as another alternative way of performance for my current project , for save drawcallings and batching in terms of performance and good practice too  in my startup ,however I am searching new technique with blender . 

I read this thread  to understand some primary concepts. 

thx.

https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/UDIM

Udjani

I think you would have a better chance of having an answer for that on the blender megathread. http://polycount.com/discussion/72805/blender-mega-thread#latest

rafastrip

ok bro thx. 

kio

what do you want to achieve? UDIMS are not really part of realtime workflows at the moment - all your talking about drawcalls performance etc has nothing to do with it...

UDIMS is basically just a way to tell which UV quadrant gets which textures. For rendering you need quite a few maps per material per uv tile, and if you have to setup that all manually its very cumbersome and error prone.

rafastrip

I used texture atlasing in my startup , ok  I thougth Udims has the same effect as TA process or some process related to performance for games or movies. Ok , thx by your time.

renderhjs

Found a thread the other day regarding UDIM support for blender. Theory Studio have their own build of Blender for the animation work. It turns out that they implemented UDIM support, read more here:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?440326-Theory-Studio-s-custom-Blender-builds

renderhjs

relevant video segment at 8:55 (can't embed YT links here with time offsets)
https://youtu.be/r_Gjx-rrIG0?t=535