Unwrapping a low poly scene to make best use of texture space

linz1010

Hi polycount! I'm working on a low poly island scene and I want to make the best use of my texture space. I want to do something like this: http://wiki.polycount.com/ModularMountAndBlade?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Modular_MountBladeMod_01.jpg but I'm pretty confused on how to go about it.

linz1010

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renderhjs

Mark Dygert wrote: »

Don't forget these too:
http://chrisholden.net/tutor/max_tiling00.jpg
http://chrisholden.net/tutor/max_tiling01.jpg
http://chrisholden.net/tutor/max_tiling02.jpg
http://chrisholden.net/tutor/max_tiling03.jpg
http://chrisholden.net/tutor/max_tiling04.jpg

http://www.vigville.com/forum_images/ModularMartins.jpg
http://www.vigville.com/forum_images/ModuleArches.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336353/ModularSewer.jpg

http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/modular_sets/modular_sets.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/WorkflowAndModularity.html

Terrain modeling is normally a plane pushed and pulled in various ways, with tile textures blending across it using either masks or vertex paint.

also

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1015470&postcount=17

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Ah yeah, cool tips Ryan.

Here are the pics I promised. I forgot we used 8 pixel pads for the 512x512s, any less and we had bleeding. We had this hand-painted cartoon-shaded look, and we wanted the blending between the tiles to also be in the same painted style, instead of the usual vertex-alpha blend. So the Lead Artist and I worked up this approach...


Some screenshots from our wiki...

Using a face-map preview during modeling.


Adjusting the UVs after modeling.


More shots of the game here.

and lastly always research on your stuff, like I used search keywords such as tile, loop, texturing, modular, low poly, uv mapping,... I always wonder why its so hard to search or get after the right keywords for so many people *shrug* . Maybe we should add some sticky or tutorials on how to research on your own and get the best out of it- like some nifty google tricks.

Ace-Angel

renderhjs wrote: »

Maybe we should add some sticky or tutorials on how to research on your own and get the best out of it- like some nifty google tricks.

A general 'keywords for dummies' type of guide would work very well. Many of my friends don't know what Vertex-Painting is, and many more don't know you can apply materials to it when creating shaders...

Which reminds, does the Polycount Wiki have a keyword catalogue?

On-Topic: Yeah, do what RenderHJS said...

renderhjs

even for that there are techniques on how to retrieve those words or knowledge/ overview- its called research.

People sometimes get angry thinking that often people are lazy slackers (because they don't research and rather depend on others) but I think its a clear lack of skills, skills that should be essential.

I might be able to write up some techniques I use around the google platform for example (gImages, google, gTranslate, imageSearch, additional search commands, sort by subject, picasa search,..) and maybe some strategies on how to break up a search to get what you think you need or want.