Texturing multiple identicle objects

ibbi

hello, i am in the process of making this into 3d. However im not sure on how to go about the roof tiles with texturing them later on in mind. Im aware of the technique where you move the uvs over to the next coordinates to use the same textures, but i also want some of the tiles to have unique textures such as weathering effects and cracks etc so they dont look completely identical. How would one go about this from start to finish? Any advice would be greatly apprieciated.

Alex_J

"Decals" is the word you are looking for.

Eric Chadwick

Depends, but generally I would model one slice of the pie, then duplicate that around to create the whole roof. 1/4 of the roof would be enough to avoid obvious repetition.

Eric Chadwick

We have a lot of resources here on our wiki, which might help you with this project.

• http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments
• http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_atlas
  
• http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/ChannelPacking
  
• http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/MultiTexture

ibbi

thanks for the advice. i will look into all of that.