Texturing large roadway scene. Maya and Arnold.

Bluewake · Oct 2017

I am needing to create a roadway that really exists. It's about 9 blocks in length. For my first attempt I used a tiling asphalt texture and blended a 16k texture of the roadway lines that I created in illustrator. I created the texture by simply tracing the lines of a google earth aerial. Are there more efficient ways to do this? The main problem I am having is the repetition of the asphalt tile over such a large area. The other problem is that even though I am using a 16k texture the painted road lines are so small they don't match the texel density of the asphalt tile texture. Thats why I had to bump it up to 16k.

Anyone have some ideas?

oglu · Oct 2017

UDIMs... make 200 of them and paint all unique....

Bluewake · Oct 2017

Yeah I was thinking about that but how would I handle painting the fog lines in the correct place? Im still in the process of learning Substance Painter. I have an illustrator file in which I have cut out all of the fog lines from the google aerial and made an alpha.

Bluewake · Oct 2017

Also painting across UDIM still dont seem to be supported in Substance yet.

throttlekitty · Oct 2017

You could use a single tiling asphalt texture, or a couple blended together for variation. Use decal meshes for everything else, paint lines, potholes, patches, plumes and penises.

Noth · Oct 2017

The 200 UDIMs approach @oglu suggested seems better for large areas of scan data. Sounds like you're doing it the old fashion way my friend.

PolyHertz · Oct 2017

Oglu was joking, throttlekitty explained the correct way to do it.

Texturing large roadway scene. Maya and Arnold.

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