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It is convenient to have a mesh made up a central body with its own uv/textures/materials (say, 3 materials, 2048 uv), upon which will be parented other parts/meshes each with 1-2 materials and 512 uvs?
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Yes, this is possible.
However, this choice will depend on many factors.
You must provide more information about the context where asset will be used.
Screenshots for a portfolio piece?
Asset viewable in a playable game?
What kind of game, what delivery hardware, what other assets are visible, etc.?
All of these factors influence the choices you have made.
Hi Eric. It is a playable character, for either Unity 5 o Unreal 5.
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Need more information. A character to be used in an actual game will require you to consider performance constraints.
How will the model be seen, from an overhead tactical camera? Over-the-shoulder camera? Closeup facial camera for in-game cinematics?
How many characters will be shown at the same time? This affects performance/frame rate.
What kind of hardware is the game going to run on? This affects performance/frame rate.
Is the character customizable in-game by the user? What exactly can they customize?
Etc.
Conversely, making a character model for a portfolio piece is much much easier.
Hello Eric. The model is the rifle of which the sling I'm talking about in the other thread: seen from 3d person. Not customizable with other parts than the ones listed. I don't know abou hardware and the rest: I've though that anything may be scalable, with both engines today.
Rifle body 1024 map, scope 512, retractile stock 512, sling 512, handle 512, mag 512, bullet 128. 1 central piece plus 6 parented pieces (including the moving barrel, which is mapped into the body uv).
All this just for the sake of avoiding a 2048 or (worse) 4096 map just for an assault rifle as a whole and to gain better details for each part (I tried to map all of this into a 1024 map, but the details of writings and the rest was very poor).
I guess that 512 maps per each sholuldn't be anymore an issue with today's engines.
Sounds like you're not making it for a specific game.
Not specific. Althoug for now I have in mind to use this rifle alongwith the character into a canvas for Unity.
OK so for a portfolio piece it doesn't matter what tech specs you use.