Asset Pack Textures

Chrismartinartist

Hello,

I just wanted to ask what the best practice is with regard to texturing for asset packs for sales. For example I'm working on a pack for a Blacksmith shop, a lot of the items are quite small, tools etc, and are mainly a mix of woods/metals.

Am I best texturing individually (per asset), or having one set of maps that everything uses?

Thank you.

Eric Chadwick

Considering mostly these assets will be used together, then the fewer textures the better. 

I would do a mix of trim sheets (for repeating forms) and a few unique textures as needed for specific shapes.

Noren

You could offer both if you think customers might want to use them separately and feel like it's worth your time.

Ghogiel

A mix. Simply using a tiling texture for each mat type would work, but it's low effort and kind of meh looking a lot of the time.

For a load of props, unique/atlased RGB masks might be worth considering. So a mix of generic tiling materials, with a mask to blend them with context to the object. an example for metal it might be layered like this> base metal tile textures> mask R channel to add rust (tilings texture)> mask G for edge wear (could be just metallic rough and color changes in the shader to save on textures)> mask B channel dirt layer ( metallic rough and color). you could also add AO to a channel in the mask as well if you wanted.