Advice. Modular workflow. One UV or separate.

corthus

I need a help. I working on project where i create modular corridor. And here is a tricky part for me. This corridor, when i match all pieces together is very huge (11 pieces, H: 6m, W: 3m and lenght depents of how loenght you want ) and when i texture it with single UV in SP i have some problems with hard surface stamps (quality). And here is my question, how looks like work flow in game industry in that case? It's good to have 11 different textures per 11 object, which gives me together  one model (corridor), or i must try pack that 11 pieces into one UV shell?

Sage

That depends on what each piece looks like. You  should try and layout your UVs so you can use trim sheets, since certain objects  are going to be one type of material, and you also want to reduce the amount of textures used for your assets.

You are actually dealing with a really complex issue due to texture limitations, hardware limitations and time...


Here are some tutorials: I hope this helps...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziIY674NAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFry2fy0rY4&list=PLU74dDTYexO5ap_Ko9stC-RZs5Pw1cJOi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODD-79i5_4&t=2100s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAm2E3_evYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-zXbv49II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqyefCV1XE8

corthus

Thank you for tutorials, that's blew my mind. I always thought that i must each time pack all pieces from my model into 0-1 UV...

And i have a little problem, what if i want put on some pieces different texture, like u know, have same color of wall on every pieces, but on 2 or 3 pieces i want put graffiti or something, that should looks like led strip on the wall.

Here is how this all pieces looks like:


And here is what i want to do. I want to create some variations between some pieces. Put some normal stamp like vents, ect. I have 6 of this elements: 3 of them are shorter and 3 of them are longer. But on both i want to have same thing (led,hard surface stamp and completely blank wall). :



And here is the another problem: i have 2 pieces of corners and the dead end - I don't know how to handle this.

Sage

You should look into decals. They are used to add specific details like logos, blood, grunge, broken edges, anything that can break the tiling textures look....

Here is something I used decals... See if you can spot it.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LNwbw

corthus

Thank you very much for help That explained me a lot