Skyscraper Blender Texture

[Teldaril]

Hello,

i want to create my own asset. Namely a skyscraper with Blender. I am fairly new to this whole process and i have watched tutorials to get started.

Currently i have modeled my asset in Blender and wanted to texture it via UV unwrap.

I have collected some textures, put them together and did a first "smart UV unwrap" and roughly placed everything to get a first impression. Of course everything is distorted, compressed and stretched.

Now i tried to improve on the UV mapping by manually unwrap but i quickly reached a point where i am uncertain how to progress.

The problem is: The skyscraper has several larger faces which would stretch the textures.

Am i able to repeat a part of my UV texture on one face? For instance i have a very long face which should repeat just the part on the image.



Or is there another way to better fill larger faces?

One way i could imagine is to scale everything on my imported texture down and repeat it there but that would reduce the texture quality.

Or do i ultimately have to split the faces and increase the tris count of my asset by quite a margin?

 

[mntoes]

You are right in your thoughts. Scaling down the texture or increasing the number of faces/tris is the way to go. What size texture map are you using? I have never made a skyscraper but I would imagine that a larger map size of 2048x2048 might be appropriate and help to solve you detail problem . I also find it easier to manually unwrap the uv's as it allows for textures to be stacked on top of each other.

Any skyscraper makers care to comment?

Stacked textures:-

The windows are all separate to allow for varying illumination settings.

 

[Teldaril]

Thank you for your comment. Currently i am using a 1024x1024 map. I am not sure how it will translate to the game since it is my first attempt.

I progressed by scaling everything down on my map to keep the memory and tris count rather small. It looks a little bit grainy on the map but it is so much smaller on the asset. I think currently it is the way to go for me and see what i get.

With this method there is also plenty more space on the map to add more details when i am happy with the foundation.