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A Place to lay my head...
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eclark1894
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Pretty much. All the rooms are done and I'm still fitting doors on rooms and closets, and there may be a few last minute details i might add like light switches and wall sockets. Otherwise, I'm through with the modeling. Now, for me at least, comes the hard part of texturing.
eclark1894
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The outside of the house is, as are the floor and the roof. Honestly, it never even occured to me to UV map the inner walls, as I was thinking people would just have them one diffuse color anyway. You think I should?
eclark1894
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Every room has been broken up and separated. Like I said, it didn't even occur to me to UV map the interior walls, but It might actually be easier to do now that they are separated.
Also if the interior walls are UV mapped, people could easily add photographs and paintings without loading in actual models for those.
eclark1894
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Any idea of what size map you want or need?
I've noticed vendors who include maps/templates with their products vary the size of their maps. I've gotten into the habit of creating mine 2048x2048, BUT, usually for clothing or small items. I'm not sure what size you'd want for maps for house parts. I've seen maps up to twice that size.
Then again, I suppose taking into account the amount of details in a mesh would determine how large you want to make it. The more details, the more room you need for texturing. A plain wall, not so much.
Then again, I suppose taking into account the amount of details in a mesh would determine how large you want to make it. The more details, the more room you need for texturing. A plain wall, not so much.
eclark1894
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As predicted, having issues with the UV mapping. Here's my problem; I can create a fairly uniform map if i Smart UV map in Blender or a jumbled mess if I try to map by seams. Plus, in this particular instance, there's an interior of the house and an exterior of the house. Actually a lot of the rooms are like that. What I'm thinking is that I can map everything and just create separate maps. Frankly at this point I'm just lost.
Wouldn't you need the Kitchen and Bathroom mapped so you could add Tiles?
Blender has a way to select Edge Loops or Edge Rings, but not for Verts or Polys.
That said, if I want to select a few rows of adjacent polys, I select an edge in each row that would be affected, go to Select > Edge Rings, switch from Edge selection to Vert selection (a click of the appropriate button) so that all the Verts attached to the Edges selected are also selected, and lastly I switch to Poly selection, and all the polys in the affected rows are selected. I've tried going from selecting the edges straight to Poly selection mode, but that doesn't work. In Blender the Edges and Verts interact together, so if I go from Edge to Vert, and THEN to Poly, I'm successful.
THAT all said, I would only do that for small areas, especially where another part of the mesh is blocking an easy selection of the Polys I want. Otherwise I just select the whole area I want to UV, for instance a whole wall, and go into the UV Editor and set it up and export the layout.
Needless to say, I've not undertaken modeling a whole house, so haven't got any advice as to how to do it, though separate layouts may be the best way to go, say one for each room for the interior.
That said, if I want to select a few rows of adjacent polys, I select an edge in each row that would be affected, go to Select > Edge Rings, switch from Edge selection to Vert selection (a click of the appropriate button) so that all the Verts attached to the Edges selected are also selected, and lastly I switch to Poly selection, and all the polys in the affected rows are selected. I've tried going from selecting the edges straight to Poly selection mode, but that doesn't work. In Blender the Edges and Verts interact together, so if I go from Edge to Vert, and THEN to Poly, I'm successful.
THAT all said, I would only do that for small areas, especially where another part of the mesh is blocking an easy selection of the Polys I want. Otherwise I just select the whole area I want to UV, for instance a whole wall, and go into the UV Editor and set it up and export the layout.
Needless to say, I've not undertaken modeling a whole house, so haven't got any advice as to how to do it, though separate layouts may be the best way to go, say one for each room for the interior.
IIRC, in Silo I can select and edge, and then holding the Shift key, I can double click the next edge in the row, and they'll get selected. Pretty much the same thing, except done with the mouse (or in my case Wacom pen) instead of menu selection(s).
eclark1894
Visionary
So what I'm doing then is to to prepare two separate UV maps for each room with an interior and exterior, so that's all but two rooms, a hallway, and a linen closet.
eclark1894
Visionary
Just took a quick count and not counting the hallway and linen closet, there are ten rooms in this house. Three bedrooms, 2 baths, garage, dining room, kitchen, family room, and living room.
