Unwrapping Help for a Noob. My textures become blown up and huge!

ZenDavis

I'm new and still learning. Thank to anyone who can help advise me ahead of time.

When I unwrap my textures they become huge. For example If I have a brick texture tiled on the building when I unwrap it the texture becomes so big that half a brick covers the entire wall. I spend a lot of time stitching and welding them so I had a good UV but textures still looked the same so I couldn't render my textures properly. What am I doing wrong?

This is how the texture looks before unwrapping:



This is is how it looks after:

slosh

You need to scale your UVs larger so the textures fit at the right ratio.

MethodJ

Yeah, your UVs need adjustment. Try this tutorial on the topic.

ZenDavis

Thanks for the help guys. MethodJ I just went through your site but my UV is a little complex that it can't be just a top down projection so I would scale it up. It's multiple pieces. And in the same pieces there are polygons having ID of another materials where some of them aren't tiled at all (and don't have to be).

mobpapst

The most important fact by unwraping in max is to deselect the "normalize map" field. It gives you the safety to get right proportioned uv's to all tiles you unwrap. in the end you gonna scale all together down in your uv space.

sargentcrunch

n/a

ZenDavis

Thanks guys! Giving it a shot now. Hopefully I can figure it out. Will update you if I can.