Re-baking all texture maps, different positioning

another caveman

Hello!
So my point is to make tile-able materials, I have a workflow in mind, but I don't really know if it is possible. I don't even know if it has a name?

Lets say I have PBR assets ready, I want to place them all over my (to be tileable in the future) plane.
Then I want to re-bake all those assets that I dropped on the plane. All maps: AO, Normal, Height, Albedo, Metal/Spec etc.

I'll still use xNormal for the normals, AO and height, but now what about my texture maps?
Maybe I can do it one by one and pretend they are 'base texture' and xnormal will let me deal with it? What does he call 'base texture' exactly?

Anyone has experience with this to share?



Let me know if I'm not being clear!
Thank you
Adrien

EarthQuake

Yeah, you can do it one by one with the base texture. The only thing that won't work that way is a normal map.

m4dcow

EarthQuake said:

Yeah, you can do it one by one with the base texture. The only thing that won't work that way is a normal map.

With the "base texture is a tangent space normal map" option it should work too.

another caveman

Interesting. Where do you plug the maps tho ? Can't find any button?

m4dcow

I think you select it in the high poly tab, though I don't have xnormal installed at the moment.

another caveman

Oh it's been right under my eyes straight from the beginning you're right it's there in the tab.
Alright I'll give a go to that workflow tomorrow and try to come up with some sweeet materials from bashing assets!

Sajeet

pls share the results as im very curious person

another caveman

okay worked out pretty well
I went for a simple material with no gloss / spec needed (kaplas pieces, it's like jenga)
idk if this workflow is common over here but it's a pretty cool discovery to me




here is the ingame result
i'll give a go to a lego material too

another caveman

They're blending into eachother pretty well using the height map too.





Okay so now what if I have several different assets that I want to bake together?
Shall I re-uv them and combine the different textures together or can I plug more than one base texture?

m4dcow

I use this technique to make foliage, I make an Atlasses for all the different elements so I only have to back one set. However you could have a mask map for different texture sets and use that to composite but I think putting everything in an atlas would be easier.