The best method for applying a texture...
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Here is a scene I am working....
Today I was doing the conduit cables for the lights...
I have made similar scenes loads of times before over the last 3/4 years but I havent had any chance to ask questions to professionals.
With the lights/signboard and a few other objects in the scene such as the tracks I have unwrapped them carefully laid them out grouped certain objects to save space and textured them individually in Substance Designer then exported the results as either maps or sdsar files to Unity5.
However with the station wall I made a tile texture and just dragged it in.
1) I dont know the words to describe those two methods... a texture UV which is specially made for an object it has dirty edges and damage etc, or an object which just has a tiled texture dropped on it.
2) with the conduit cable things, I could carefully unwrap them, bake several maps then make a texture to fit them, which due to the size of them, they will look shit and pixilated, so sure its better I just do a 'quick unwrap' in Blender regardless if parts of the cables are overlapping etc and export it, then just drag in any suitable metal material?
any suggestions?
Today I was doing the conduit cables for the lights...
I have made similar scenes loads of times before over the last 3/4 years but I havent had any chance to ask questions to professionals.
With the lights/signboard and a few other objects in the scene such as the tracks I have unwrapped them carefully laid them out grouped certain objects to save space and textured them individually in Substance Designer then exported the results as either maps or sdsar files to Unity5.
However with the station wall I made a tile texture and just dragged it in.
1) I dont know the words to describe those two methods... a texture UV which is specially made for an object it has dirty edges and damage etc, or an object which just has a tiled texture dropped on it.
2) with the conduit cable things, I could carefully unwrap them, bake several maps then make a texture to fit them, which due to the size of them, they will look shit and pixilated, so sure its better I just do a 'quick unwrap' in Blender regardless if parts of the cables are overlapping etc and export it, then just drag in any suitable metal material?
any suggestions?
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2) with the conduit cable things, I could carefully unwrap them, bake several maps then make a texture to fit them, which due to the size of them, they will look shit and pixilated, so sure its better I just do a 'quick unwrap' in Blender regardless if parts of the cables are overlapping etc and export it, then just drag in any suitable metal material?
well i was wondering if those two particular methods of applying a texture have a name, cause I dont know anything. also I was wondering if one is recommended over the other. but if you cant answer that dont worry about it.
Generally you pick a texel density based on your limitations and use case. Say a 1024 pixel per meter for a modern FPS for example, after this you unwrap and create your textures/materials following this guideline. This ensures that most of the objects in the scene share same texture quality.
Less textures and materials generally means better performance, but using tiling textures on props also usually sacrifices some of the quality that you could achieve by using a unique texture, so you need to balance that depending on your needs and targets.