JackRipper666 Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 Hey guys, I was just curious does Mesh in SL support anything like Multi Tile uv map textures? I was just curious cause with the possiblity of going as high as 65536 vertices. It could really be useful to have more 0-1 UV maps available. Lots of programs like Maya, Mari and Zbrush support this as well. I Don't know about blender. Anyway was just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeliefste Oh Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 You can go to max 8 uv maps per mesh. Make sure to make a selection for each UV map, and add one material to each selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackRipper666 Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Thank you for the relpy! Yea I figured that part out but when I go to paint on these maps. Do they all have to be on top of each other overlapping? Or can I do it how you're suppose to in 3D editor like Maya where you layout each UV map on it's own 0-1 space plane. I'm not sure if Second life would see those maps if I don't lay them all out in one UV plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwakkelde Kwak Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Every material has its own dedicated UV map. So you can use 8 seperate maps, just like you can in Maya. Whether they overlap or not is entirely up to you, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chosen Few Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 The question of whether to put each map in the primary tile (0-1), or to lay them out in separate tiles, is laregely dependent on what specific combination of software you're using. If you're using Mudbox for texturing, for example, that program loves it when you break things up into multiple tiles, but there are other programs that get all kinds of confused by it. SL seems to have no problem with it. So if you're only using Maya and SL, do whatever you're most comfortable with. Myself, I often use separate tiles while I'm working, just to keep things easy to see (and because I do use Mudbox). When I'm done, I'll usually snap each map back to the main tile, before export, to help ensure maximum compatibility with the most amount of programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 In Blender, you can have (parts of) a UV map outside the main 0:1 square, and when it comes into SL it behaves as if the texture was tiled infinitely in both ndimensions. So in that context, your tiling would work. However, I have never inspected such a case in the collada file. So don't know whether UV corrdinates are rounded to 0:1 by the exporter. I would guess not. In which case it would work in other contexts too (whether or not the uploader does adjust it). Of course you still have to use different materials if you want to apply different textures, but it would allow you to look at all their UV maps next to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacy Nightfire Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 For anyone not following this, here's an illustration (again I'm a beginning intermediate Blender user so I may be missing some subtleties here): Note it that the UVs can positioned outside the positive 0-1 uv grid space and here each mesh box is assigned it's own material so that in SL a seperate texture can be applied. Within Blender a second material isn't required to assign various faces in an object to different textures, but in SL you must to assign material groups to create texture seperation. Also it's important to note that you can only manipulate and paint the texture within the visible grid section. From there the texture gets applied to the mesh as an infinitely repeating pattern, so its important to view your mesh in texture view in the 3d edit screen to make certain it's place in the manner you desire. SL view: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackRipper666 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 Ah ok, sounds cool! Thanks guys, I'll have to give this a shot for fun with Maya. I'm curious if I can get similar results. So far I know assigning just lambert materials to each uv works and even works if I assign them to a single face on the mesh. It works with overlapping UV's to so I guess if I had to I could paint them not overlapped and then maybe go through the effort of moving my maps and textures all into one 0-1 uv plane. That's if it don't work like blender lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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