UVs for phallic imagery (a pistol) trouble.

McKertis

Okay, so i have this low-poly flintlock, and am making UVs for it. I have the symmetric halves on top of each other and stuff. But i am told that i need to "bunch up" those various pieces, so as not to waste texture space and have smaller texture sizes.

How is it possible to do it with objects like these, long and cylindrical ? The long fat piece on the bottom is the actual body of the pistol, and it takes the whole space width-wise. Should i just enlarge all the other pieces ? What do you people do in situation like this ?

hellobuddy

I would just reduce the height of the texture to a 2:1(512x256) ratio, then rotate all the bits that you have standing up right now so they are horizontal and cram it all in there, should fit quit snuggly judging on the scaling you have right now.

McKertis

Damn, its so simple i hadnt thought of that !
Umm...i can do that in any 3D package, i guess, but i wonder if that will be okay with the game engines. I'll ask the coder of the specific engine if it supports that.

Vailias

All engines should support it. The UV sampling goes from 0-1 in both U and V directions

You simply lay it out on a 2:1 space, like from -1 - +1 U and 0-1V then scale all the UV's by half (0.5) on the U axis and put them back into the default 0-1 UV space.

IN your program they'll look stretched but they will read a 2:1 ratio texture properly.

_Eclipse_

nice! it is the weapon of the musketeer i saw in another post?
it's for a game?

McKertis

Ah, specific directions ! Thank you.
I'm not exactly used to the UVs, just started in fact.

Yeah, its (hopefully) for a game, if i dont screw it all up, somehow.

Wells

i own one of these. looks pretty accurate. mine is a bit bulkier, though.

McKertis

Experimented with different cuttings, looks alot better i say. Much less wasted texture. However its still without symmetry, so it may be more spacy after i do that.