How to approach large, sculpted objects that will also use tiling textures?

NeonGold

Hi Polycount,

I'm not quite sure how to pose this question, but this is an issue I seem to run into a lot. I'm in the process of modeling this environment but I can't wrap my head around how to make the stairs in the lower right. I want to sculpt them, but if I do it as a single large piece the textures will have to be huge to maintain a decent texel density. My best guess is that there is a way I can sculpt/bake a small set of stones, arrange those into the stairs, and then somehow blender that with tiling textures and vertex painting  - but then since the duplicated stones will have overlapping UVs the material will show obvious repetition, no? Very confused!

(Awesome concept by https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gJEa08)

sarasumm

Unless its a major prop, most of those bricks and stone pieces would be textured using trim sheets. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DipfrjCgYW8 - This video explains the idea really well and shows you how to get started

Your winebox looks really nice! I hope this helps!

teodar23

You should google tutorials on how to do scale-aware tiling or just use a triplanar for a normal detail level, aka blending the unique uv texture with a tileable texture scaled down.
Edit: here you go
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/67015/tiling-texture-scale-based-on-actor-scale.html

NeonGold

Those are good ideas, thanks! Didn't think of that for some reason! I find that being self-taught I have these weird pockets of missing information when it comes to process, even though I've used trims, scale-aware, and triplanar materials many times before.