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How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
Hello Polycounts I am a little stuck on an unwrapping problem. I am making a building that has 2 different types of roofs on it. One is a regular slanted part of a roof you would see on lots of house and the other is a cone type roof. (building is semi stylized) All the buildings in the scene will use the same tillable… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
Just out of curiosity I created a cone (not a mangled cylinder) and applied unwrap, just to see what kind of default unwrap 3dsmax applies. This is what I saw. There seems to be a bit of distortion but it would let you paint straight horiz lines without distortion or anti-aliased lines. You could possibly start to minimize… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
I like MagicSugar's approach however it didn't take into account the 2 extra loops and the slightly deformed shape, which would make getting to that nice straight edge problematic. The only two ways I can think of would be to make the simple cone, unwrap it, and then add/deform the loops after. Or do a lot of edge… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
Does every face need to be unique? If not unfold map a section of the cone, maybe 90 degress, stitch any breaks, ther shouldn't be that much noticable sretching and copy it around 4 times. Really depends on the role of the asset as to how you do it. Texture resolution, what its used for, how close to camera etc..yadda… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
Hi, This is what I would do: Planar X or Z map your cone, cut UV's in length, flip one UV-side, re-attach Uv edges on one side, and do an unfold operation, and you'll hopefully end up with something like this: This would work only for a coneshape. a sphere will be a more tricky primitive to map. -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
nice suggestion, MoP... seems a bit more effort/thought into the texture end to get the 'point' looking right, I spose, but much better with minimizing deformation on the actual UVs. -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
The nice thing about MagicSugar's unwrap (which is similar to what I'd do - although I'd take the top and left seams right to the exact UV border) is you can then make a texture which tiles on a 90 degree rotation (so the left edge of the texture matches the top edge)... that way you will have no seam at all :D -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
wow thanks guys for all the awesome feedback. I was worried that this was going to be just a dumb question and ignored. The good things I heard about polycount defiantly seem to be true =) Think I will go with the idea suggested by Malus and use some trim to hide the seams like EQ did. The extra geo would be worth it I… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
Yeah, here is a bit more practical example. Using some trim to hide the seams on the 1/4th model, you can get some pretty good results, there is some slight distortion near the uv seems, but nothing too bad. Also, you can shift around the uvs on the different parts, to get different detail from your texture as well. And… -
Re: How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture
too bad the distortion is so ugly along the middle tri there.
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