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Hello Polycount community! This is my very first polycount topic and coincidentally my first finished 3D artwork. I uploaded it on ArtStation here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ov5XY8
I modeled everything in Blender: highpoly, lowpoly; then I baked normal maps, ao and curvature in Marmoset Toolbag 4; textured everything in SP and finally uploaded all textures back to Blender, set up terrain and lighting there and made renders.
Before starting texturing process i divided all objects into 10 texture sets, each of them is represented by a different color on picture 5. I really wanted my textures to look as detailed and realistic as possible but I'm afraid that this could screw my textile density (picture 9). Maybe I could ask your advice on how I could distribute the textures better? My main problem was the walls, since I wanted them to have unique damage details (cracks around the pipes insertions, leaks under the drain etc) so I unwrapped them all on a single UV sheet, which made them take up so little texture space! Basically my question is: how can I keep the crispy details on a huge object, which can't be optimized by texture/model repetition?
I could manage to optimize wires by creating them as arrays of cylinders following a curve path, each cylinder having a small tileable texture, which I thought was very smart tbh 
But if you know a smarter way, tell me!
Overall I welcome critique on any part of the process: topology, baking, textures, unwrapping, lighting, just appearance. Maybe you could share some of your knowledge on the best way to make terrain in Blender? I'm sure I could improve something on every step.
Thank you in advance!
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A lot of decisions depend on the intended use of a model. Since you're rendering it to stills, you don't have any of the limitations of making something work in a real-time renderer like in a game. Therefore you could go pretty high with geometry detail, texture resolutions, UDIMs, etc. However it seems like you're considering some of the limitations of creating content for in-game use.
So which is it? If it's meant to be used in a game engine, then you should commit to that, and make your content fit the needs of a game engine. This would help improve your portfolio if applying to game jobs.