Gothic Interior
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I'm starting to work on this Gothic interior. It will be another modular approach, I'm timing myself on this one to get this done as quickly as i can.
Here's part of a column deco I'm working on.
Here's part of a column deco I'm working on.
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Yeah but those tiny tri's should they be floating or welded to the rest of the mesh?
Im betting 2048 x 2
A found the background info on the image. It says that is a Victorian Gothic town hall. So it's a mixed style.
I always start out hi res then go low if need be.
Wait, hold on is that 2048x2 for just the pillar?
Wait, hold on is that 2048x2 just for the top of the pillar?
Doesn't UE3 automatically downsize anything over 1024 down to 1024 unless you set some override flags?
I would seriously adjust your texture budget down to something more realistic. Something like say 2048x2 for the whole scene. Which should be perfectly doable if you work modular and make a few tiles.
Yeah I was going to do the base elements a 2048 and the much smaller elements and 1024, but you say I can do the whole scene 2048x2?
Excellent, but what is the "bicubic sharper" is that a max render filter?
Ahhh. I didn't realize that. Thanks a lot.
Keep it coming
Vj
- The bricks in 5, 3 & 14 could be done with a single tile.
- The stripped pattern on the arches, could be a horiz tile.
- The bottom part of 1 and all of 2 could be combined to one tile.
- Each of the pillars doesn't need to be unwrapped uniquely, a few slight variations could be placed on one sheet and mix and match the UV's around so no two pillars that sit next to each other are the same.
- Or if one pillar was made out of a cylinder you could rotate it slightly for each pillar. So it displays a unique side. One texture for all the pillars.
- 6 & 3 could be combined into one mesh, and share one texture sheet. Using the same trick for the posts and the stairs. A few slight variations and some smart unwrapping go a long way in breaking up the repeating. You'd be surprised what kinds of tricks you can do on stairs with a really small strip, and some well placed UV's.
Yes some of the wall textures are like world textures,which can be tiled and used anywhere needed. This is just my thought..
Vj
Dude I am SOOO ignorant of these terms. What do you mean by "256 PPM"? Also are you suggesting that for the pillars that the top and bottom bases of the pillar should be 1024x and the middle tier of the pillar should 256x?
Are you saying that I can create a map for two different versions of pillars and all i have to do is take the same pillar mesh and move around the uv's on the texture map to get two different versions? If so how do I go about making a 512 x 1024 map to fit things in with more space without the uv's stretching horizontally?
As for the stretching, you can either start that way, by setting the custom bitmap dimensions. Or create a texture with those dimensions (uncheck use custom bitmap settings) and apply that to your mesh then start unwrapping. It's not too horrible if you have to scale it afterward, some times it helps to turn on pixel snapping.
To be clear this is what I was talking about.
I was trying to point out that you can texture 6 pillars with 3 unique parts (on one texture sheet) and no one would really catch on that the textures repeat.
Also this column is high poly and will be sculpted in Zbrush. I'm using the hi poly to low poly method. I unwrapped the high poly version, then will texture in photoshop, after that I will sculpt in Zbrush aided with a height map template created in photoshop, and bake. After all of that finally I will optimize the high poly to low poly. What do you guys think about that strategy?
Also one more question how does my pillar UV layout look too? Does it make sense? I think so. On the bottom of the UV layout I extended the long barrel portion of the pillar because that will be tiled.