I need help understanding how to construct UV maps.

MBauer17

UV mapping is not for suckers. I found that out today. I am creating a low poly tree with hand painted textures and I'm not quite sure how to go about preparing the UV map. I have a couple stupidly basic questions that I'm probably overthinking:

• A lot of the shapes are repeating with small changes to diversify the silohuette. Do I need to create a UV map for each shape or would a single map be fine barring slight warping?
• Should the assets of the tree be put on a map separate of the tree itself? 

Thank you for helping out! (Here is a sketchfab )

Eric Chadwick

If you can repeat parts of the model, without being too obvious, then that's to your benefit since you can make the UVs larger and thus increase the number of pixels per meter.

We have some info on our wiki about UVs. Have you seen it yet?

Mark Dygert

It's usually best to unwrap one and then copy it around as you build the object.

MBauer17

@Eric Chadwick - I did although briefly. I may have gotten dissuaded at the time because it wasn't meant for a quick read. I'll take a look at it again. 
@Mark Dygert  - excellent. That'll make everything much easier.