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What is the ideal way to UV map modular pipes of different sizes?
For my project, I am building a set of modular pipe pieces with different diameters. Currently all of the UVs are square-mapped from the 0-1 range so the pieces are perfectly tileable; however, depending on the thickness of the pipe, its UVs may be stretched too thin or too far on the V axis. I could scale the UV shell… -
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Thirding explained: http://poopinmymouth.com/tutorials/thirding-textures-tip.html -
Re: What is the ideal way to UV map modular pipes of different sizes?
That's a pretty expensive way of solving the problem really there's quite a few ways to handle without doing anything complicated with your materials this but they'll depend on what the pipe actually needs to look like at the end. if it's a pretty basic painted metal pipe with no seams - just bake the largest one down and… -
Re: What is the ideal way to UV map modular pipes of different sizes?
You could have a texture that always matches to the next pipe (say on map channel 0) then have a blended texture for the between area on map channel 1 where you could vary the tiling. -
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poop-in-my-pipe :D I just went on the wiki and searched for thirding. -
Re: What is the ideal way to UV map modular pipes of different sizes?
I should have thought of that - there's no greater pleasure in the world of game art than sending someone a link to one of Ben's pages -
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I see. That's a good idea, like I could align the bottom of the UVs to 0 on one channel, and align the top of the UVs to 1 on another channel, and blend with UV channels. I think that could work.
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