How can I solve distorted texture?

AlexLegg

I am getting some strange things happening with my texture in Max and Mudbox, please see the images. The texture seems to be distorting or stretching in an unusual way, kinda zig zagging.

I initially thought there was an issue with my texture map, but it looks fine in Photoshop, just goes haywire in 3D.

Now I'm not sure if its an issue with my UVs or something else.

The model is a poly crunched medium res one, that I have relaxed slightly. You can still see some artefacts on the grey render, but I don't necessarily think they would cause the texture issues.

So what would cause this? Uvs? If so is it worth me spending time re-UVing? or is there a better way? I'm not keen on Uving as I don't want to fiddle with the colour map too much as it is particular to the model, and I'm worried I may loose some quality if I bake it down.

throttlekitty

Is there any reason to use a mid poly model for wood planks in this case?

If not, I'd suggest making a proper low poly and work from there.

Daniel Doerksen

post wires your problem looks to be in the mesh

Piflik

Yeah...the mesh looks quite broken...

cryrid

UVs, those faces don't seem to have the right planar projection (blue especially).

SpeCter

It looks like you unwrapped it and used ProOptimizer or something xD

Edit Nevermind, didn´t see you just said that

AlexLegg

throttlekitty wrote: »

Is there any reason to use a mid poly model for wood planks in this case?

If not, I'd suggest making a proper low poly and work from there.

Yep it is just a plank of wood, but it has to stay medium res I'm afraid - customer requirement!

SpeCter wrote: »

It looks like you unwrapped it and used ProOptimizer or something xD

Edit Nevermind, didn´t see you just said that

I did indeed do that. Is this not a good thing? should I have done it a different way?

Here are some more images of the wire and UV.

gsokol

Whoa thats an ugly mesh haha. Your problem is definitely in your uvs...you will have to modify the sections that look weird.

AlexLegg

Hmm, maybe I'll just have to re UV it then.

Is there any notable lose in texture quality if I bake the colour map to another mesh?

AlexLegg

Does anyone have any further thoughts on this after lookinga t the mesh/UVs?

Do you think re mapping the UVs better will solve it? Or is there a deeper problem, maybe with the mesh? (it was pro otimized, as mentioned earler)

Thanks

renderhjs

you need to relax those areas in the UV, this would be the case with a proper UV unwrapping setup but it seems to be projected as a plane or so.

AlexLegg

Thanks for that.

I have decided to re UV it after all, and hopefully this will resolve the issue and fix some others too!