Guys, how would you go about unwrapping, sculpting and baking something like this?

mrgesy

This is a fence made out of individual bricks and are all attached together. I think if I unwrap them on one UV map, the normal maps and textures will be of lower quality.
Should I create one UV with many shells for this fence, and sculpt all the bricks and then bake?
Or should I sculpt, unwrap one brick, assign the same unwrap to other bricks and offset them by -1 in relation to each other in the UV space, and then bake the brick and apply the same normal map to all of them?

JustMeSR

Dethling

I tackle the Monthly noob challenge to and I decided to go hand painted and for this I went with the same approach JustMeSR suggested.

I unwrapped the area between two verical blocks, one vertical block and the corner stone.
The large wall corners will be done in a seperated Map (I will add them to one of the other UVs, as they don't really need much space).
For the part which connects it to the stairs I simply add this to the stair map/UV.

mrgesy

But won't the scaling of the baked brick affect the baked maps and make the textures looked skewed/distorted?

BagelHero

You won't be scaling it at any point.

Simply cut out the highlighted red sections (provided so nicely by JustMeSR), Unwrap, sculpt, bake, and then dup them around with no editing other than perhaps rotation.