Am i doing this right???

IIxDEATHxII

I have modeled the building below and exporting it to Unreal. Thing is, it is big and wanted to have enough room for my UVs. so i broke it into pieces.

And theses are some of the pieces

this is supposed to be the brick wall.

And these the windows and more.
I did unwrap them (every element) and "GROUPED" everything into one single mesh. And exported it to Unreal. So, my question is, is this the right way for doing this or there is a better way?
P.S. If i didn't make sense, you could ask me again and i try to explain it. English is not my first language. Thank you.

wonkza

You could make the windows modular I think. the repetitive windows that you have just export one and import it in UE as a separate mesh, then import your building and duplicate the windows until you get the result you wanted.

IIxDEATHxII

I will look into it and see if that will work. Thanks

lpanic

I do prefer to do objects like this one in complete modular way. So window and its surrounding wall would be one object. That would save time and memory used on textures. Its also really easy to make unique buildings from template you will get by using that method. 

IIxDEATHxII

that seems like a cool method as well and i have seen it being used on some stuff mainly interior designs and i thought it wouldn't work well with exterior environment assets.
I will give it a go. Thanks fam.

Mant1k0re

Making it one big mesh works too and has its own advantages but it won't be reusable easily as with a modular approach. Also with very big assets you may have to switch to dynamic lighting in Unreal because your light maps are either going to be very heavy or very low res and your shadows will look bad.

If you're making large scenes all by yourself modularity is probably best as you will be able to build a lot quickly and reuse your assets.

IIxDEATHxII

So, i make stuff like windows as modular and export them to Unreal and then reuse them over and over?

Mant1k0re

How about you start by reading the wiki? This thread is hardly the ideal venue to cover all the basics of modularity, which a rich topic.

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments

The second link in the list in particular is quite recent and done in UE4.

IIxDEATHxII

thanks man. Appreciate the help a lot.