Question about texture size and uv placement

kurylo3d

Question about texture size. I was wondering if the uv should be uniform in scale.... for instance normally one might make one area small and one area large depending on how much detail places need... heck one might even scale something in only 1 direction to fit the uv shell into hte texture... So my question is will this be a problem for quixel suite. Will it make a texture that looks stretched out or will it take into account the odd uv scales and try to make the same pattern sized up correctly even though the uvs are at different sizes.

a3D

It will look stretched.
Stretching isn't necessarily bad if you can control it and you know what you're doing.

Synaesthesia

It's working with Photoshop, so it's going to create stretched results if your UVs are stretched. I don't think you need to keep uniform scaling unless it's absolutely necessary - e.g. you can see every part of the model at the same distance. I would always give the underside of a vehicle less texel density than the rest of it, for example.

Dread Pirate Roberts

I usually try and keep everything in-scale in general, but there's no problem with not doing that as long as no important parts of your model are receiving to little texture space.