Overlapping UVs
Hi there,
I had this site recommended to me by a friend for asking game art related question so here goes.
When i am unwrapping and texturing I often overlap large areas of UVs intentionally because I want to save texture space and ofcourse have the same texture on certain parts of my model. The only time that i dont do this is for somethign that I know I want to take into a sculpting program.
I just wanted to know if this practise is something that i should not be doing, is it bad practise?
Thankyou
I had this site recommended to me by a friend for asking game art related question so here goes.
When i am unwrapping and texturing I often overlap large areas of UVs intentionally because I want to save texture space and ofcourse have the same texture on certain parts of my model. The only time that i dont do this is for somethign that I know I want to take into a sculpting program.
I just wanted to know if this practise is something that i should not be doing, is it bad practise?
Thankyou
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It's great for repetitive geometric detail, or large areas that can be mirrored.
It's worth bearing in mind that if you're baking normal-maps (or most other map types too!) then you should move your overlapped UV parts out of the 0-1 range, most people just move them 1 UV unit to the right.