Hey juggulator, yeah 3DCoat is pretty good for UV unwrapping and it certainly applies an equal texel density to all the UV shells of your mesh. Back in the days I started using 3D Coat for both its great retopology and UV unwrapping tools and just afterwards I learned the painting tools (I still have to dig into the voxel…
Hey guys, I was researching about texel density for a personal project in UE4 and I though that might be interesting and useful to open a discussion about it here and share the information I gathered so far. Hopefully through the discussion we can create a sort of reference thread/wiki page about this topic here on…
I actually do have NSUV[Straighten Shells!!FTW]. I have shamefully moved further from it ever since discovering 3D coat. I but do miss my dear to heart nightshade suite of scripts. One of my primary factors for moving more and more to 3DC was that I just couldn't get the Textel density operation to work[that and/or I have…
Something to note is that Epic doesn't work this way. They don't use texel density when creating an object. What they do is create all of their textures at a single size (currently it seems to be 4096x4096) and then go through and set the LODgroups and LODbias to resize the textures for different platforms and appropriate…
Hey wapc, I know that is kind of difficult to wrap your head around the "texel density" topic. I'll try to make some additional sense, based on what I understood by the time (hoping that helps you). :) To have a consistent look from different textures in your environment/game is a good idea to set a common parameter to all…
I was struggling to understand what density resolution to apply and when. However I have essentially phased out unwrapping UV's in Maya ever since using 3D coat. It has made unwrapping UV's something that I actually look forward to as it empowers me with the ability to map out and unwrap UVs in a matter of seconds. Plus it…
Hey sprunghunt thanks for the interesting insight. :) I think that these days is pretty common to create and author textures at least at 2048 (if not 4096) and then clamp them down in the editor to a more suitable resolution. So the "Epic workflow" you describe makes perfect sense and allow more flexibility in the long…
Glad to be helpful. ;) Well according to me you are looking the whole thing from the "old" point of view: you should free your point of view from the old constraint between texture size and grid size. These days is not that important anymore, as long as you work in a consistent way, so to have the same texel density…