UDIM vs UVs

pmiller001

Everyone, I've been doing a little research, because I'm about to start diving into mari at work, and seeing as Automatic UDMI packing is going to be a thing in Modo 901. I've begun rading into What UDMI's are.
My first impression is taht they are superior to UV's. You can have a mesh with multiple resolutions. IT looks like You can accomplish more on a texture with UDMI's.
Are UDMI's experimental, or not commonly used?
IF so why not?

leslievdb

as far as i know udim is not used in games only vfx

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tacbephot

thanks bestellen, very helpful information

gnoop

bestellen wrote: »

The main drawback of the traditional UV map is that you can not have different mapping resolutions for each part of the model. If you have one single UV map for the entire model, and a specific part of the model needs to be highly detailed, for example the face, you are forced to make the entire body texture at that high resolution, creating large files unnecessarily.

Why can't you just detach the face uv island and scale it up till it takes necessary pixel density. Then re-pack.

You don't need udim for that actually.

CompanionCube

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/udim-uv-mapping/