Thank you all for the great feedback! This is all helping me out immensely. I will re-unwrap the mesh tonight and place the checker texture on it. I will also be getting rid of the blood splatters. As for "re-working the texture size", I meant that I saved a 512 version before reducing it so I just backtracked to using the…
What do you mean you re-worked the texture back up to 512? You're not scaling it are you? You need to start at the res you're gonna use or at least scale down, never up. Again I think you should take a moment to follow some advice on here, re-unwrap it, post up the uvs and with a checkerboard so we can crit. Texture it…