Texture map for multi object models

Alidium

Something I never figured out is how people manage to get their model that uses several objects to all use one texture file.
I sometimes end up having up to twenty textures files for one character. I see others that have far more complex characters with separate armor parts and things that only use one (for each map type).
How is this done? I mainly use Max. I expect it should be a similar proses in other programs.

praetus

Essentially it's just selecting everything when you do your UV Unwrap. It's as simple as that.

Alidium

I did not know you could add modifiers with multiple object selected. I guess I just assumed you couldn’t when then modifiers box went blank while selecting more than one thing. Never actually tried add one like that.
It appears to be working, thanks.

sprunghunt

In the latest version of max you can use one modifier on multiple objects but you can also join all the objects together, unrwap them, then split them apart again