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Modular Environments (UE4)
I am fairly new to level design and have just recently obtained UE4. I decided to try and make a modular interior level, and this is what I cam up with using square modular pieces for the plain walls, a wall with a door in it, and the floor. Below is also a texture sheet for the enviro, only a few of the materials on there… -
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Just as clarification, when I build the environment, should I still use the modular pieces such as square blocks for walls and such, or should I make entire portions of the map into one mesh in blender and export that and apply materials in Ue4 -
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Separate pieces are better. On top of the in-editor flexibility you'll also be able to frustum-cull the geometry that's out of sight which is always good. Unreal is also supposed to batch geometry when possible to make for more efficient drawcall distribution. -
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Thanks for that valuable info sprunghunt. If texture atlases is not the correct way of doing materials, what is the best way to do interior environments in UE4? -
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In UDK making a texture atlas for multiple objects is a waste of time. Unreal engine counts each separate object as another drawcall, sometimes called a section. The renderer pauses every time it goes to draw another section. It does not matter if objects are sharing a shader or textures. This means that there's absolutely… -
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Texture atlases are used quite a bit, the EAT3D UDK tutorial is based off that and vertex painting. I would try setting up a vertex paint shader to try and create some variation in your materials. I guess you will be adding more in the future?
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