that script looks sweet ;) yea, the motivation for me is to have starting point for people who want to try their hand at environment modeling. I just started, so I'm in no way trying to put out that I know what I'm talking about, but hopefully I'll learn myself and help someone along the way. Even at this point, theres a…
The way I've atlases in the past is if I have tiling sections then I work on each section as an individual texture set (color, bump, spec), then use a script to put them into the atlas, like this. That way I can edit and tile them individually (Crazy Bumping, modeling, etc.). Smart Objects in Photoshop go a long way…