Texture Atlases and Texel Density

alfredasplen

Hi!

I've been thinking about... well, texture atlases and texel density. Does anyone have good method/tool/etc. for calculating texel density across multiple objects at once?

Like, say you've got X amount of assets for a scene/level/etc. and you wanna figure out how many 2k or 4k texture atlases you can fit them all into while maintaining proper texel density.

HAWK12HT

Uh hate to be the guy who will state the obvious, did you search poly wiki first? 

poopipe

afaik none of the widely avaialable tools will give you texel density across multiple faces, let alone multiple objects. 

I imagine that's not because it's particularly difficult (it's not) but because It'd be incredibly slow to do with python or mel in Maya.
It'd be orders of magnitude faster in max but it'd be a pain in the arse to implement on multiple objects

alfredasplen

HAWK12HT I know there's loads of tutorials on the subject, I was more looking for personal opinions & preferences. Maybe I should have clarified that bit in my original post.

rafastrip

have you fond a cool method?? it is a good question , specially for wasting space.... atlas can waste space.