Tileable Texture or Custom Texture?

Jaber · Mar 2014

What's up guys, I was working on a metal barrier model trying to get the UV map looking right for the rounded part of the barrier and running into some issue trying to get the UV map right looking good and not bending too much, and was also not sure if I should be connecting this bent part of the barrier to the other two part pipes going left and downward. Then I came to wonder if it is a better idea to go with a tileable texture for an asset like this or go with a 512x512 texture map. Any thoughts or ideas?

sargentcrunch · Mar 2014

Jaber · Mar 2014

Thanks for the tip. Would it be wise to keep that xorner part of the metal barrier in the same uv ahell as the other two parts or seperate them?

warby · Mar 2014

tile-able texture

marks · Mar 2014

Tile-able. No question.

Jaber · Mar 2014

If I were to do a barrier with multiple colors on it and and also wanted to add a good AO and some dirtiness to the object, wouldn't it be wise to make a unique texture map instead of a tile-able texture? Here is an example of a barrier I'm talking about. http://www.safewell.com.hk/eng/product.asp?id=21

SanderDL · Mar 2014

Those details look like they could easily be done with vertex colors. Then use a tiling texture to make things look dirty.

Jaber · Mar 2014

Vertex colors? Im a begginer to texturing, is vertex colors where I use a tiling texture and vertex paint dirtiness over top of it?

Moosebish · Mar 2014

On a bent cylinder you are always going to get some stretching. The only way to not get stretching would be to map the individual polys, but that's just silly.

As far as tilable vs unique, it always depends on how its going to be used. Will it be right up next to the camera? Is it a key prop in the environment? Or is it supposed to be a boring prop over in the corner?

Jaber · Mar 2014

The prop is going to be reused throughout the scene many times, so I thought if its going to be seen a lot then a unique texture would be the smarter route to take.

kurt_hectic · Mar 2014

Done:

Jaber · Mar 2014

Kurt is that supposed to be a custom uv texture map that is 512x1024?

sargentcrunch · Mar 2014

Jaber · Mar 2014

Sargentcrunch I agree, idk what he was trying to show there?

SanderDL · Mar 2014

I quickly made this as a test:

I've cut up the mesh at the parts that needed a different color. Then detached that part, so you get a really sharp blend. Then after I've assigned the colors I painted in a few spots of AO and shadows.

In Unity I made special shader that multiplies a diffuse texture with the vertex colors.

kurt_hectic · Mar 2014

sargentcrunch- man I done in in 1 min. just to show him how to tile this elements. He can map 2 models or 2 color variations on this texture, or just make 512_512, come one.

IMO vertex paint isn't necessary and require quite complicated shader. Not worth.

Jaber · Mar 2014

Snader, so is that mesh pulling from 3 different tileable textures and some vertex painting? Or is it from a 512x512 texture map?

Tileable Texture or Custom Texture?

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