Modular Rocks
I'm using some speed sculpts I did to practice some of my texturing (which I have not done in a while) and could definitely use some feedback and critiques. Have at me! (the only properly worked up uv shells is the one in the middle and middle left)
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Cool stuff man.
Technical crits:
- Needs padding around the UV shells, without it you can get seams, especially if a texture mip-maps in game.
- There seems to be more UV shells/seams than what you need? Did you tennis ball unwrap it?
- Remember that you can treat your old low poly as a high poly model and bake your maps from the old UV layout to a new.
Mark, I never thought to rebake the low poly with new UV's makes perfect sense, thanks! as for the number of shells, I have a second, larger rock sharing the same sheet, I just wanted to nail the texture on the small one before working up the whole sheet. Additionally, any suggestions for getting good padding other than a re-bake (hoping for something IN photoshop?)
The rock UV's themselves were planar mapped and the rock was sculpted with UV's in mind, hence the crack along the middle (plus I can stack them into shelves with some differing visual interest on each side. Here's the sculpt: