Your rendered bamboo shoots are about 80x600 pixels, which means they need a texture of about (2πr) -> 240x600 pixels for a 1:1 display. Usually you can afford to go a bit lower. I'd go for a 512² like this: Which gives you two separate textures for the sheets, a border for the top edges if you need a broken shoot at some…
Instancing within a model will only help with the items perfromance in your 3d package. That said, making duplicates of repetitious items can help when it comes to uv'ing as it can save you time/texture space. Once in game it will be recognized as 1 mesh unless imported in pieces. Tri count for your portfolio is your…
Incorrect. The blue channel has nothing to do with magnitute...Your thinking of how a bump map works. The three channels of a normal map store the ANGLE of normal vectors...Red is X, Green is Y, and Blue is Z. So in any one pixel, there is a value for each channel, giving angle for each axis to direct light which way to…
Hey everyone, I've spent the last few good hours researching lightmaps for UE4. I have found some useful info such as: 1) UE4's compression algorithm for lightmaps is using a 2 pixel border for interpolation so you need padding... 2) Your islands should be (as much as possible) be perfectly aligned on the grid. 3) For…