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Skinning Large objects (specifically buildings)

by Ryan Neighbour · in Artist Corner · 09/07/2009 (7:08 pm) · 3 replies

I'm still really new to creating art assets but I've really been enjoying the 3D modelling I've been doing lately. It's a hell of a lot of fun and sort of reminds me of playing with clay as a kid. Yesterday I did my first texture map and even though it looked like crap I still got a hell of a kick out of seeing my texture wrapped around an object.

Anyway, today I was playing the last Spiderman game that came out and I got to thinking about how one would go about texturing large objects such as the buildings in the game.

Would something akin to the system used to texture a terrain be used? Is it just a single massive texture that is wrapped around? Is it a (hopefully) seamless texture that is applied over and over to the side of a building?

I'm pretty much shooting blind and although I doubt I'll be needing the information soon I'm just really curious as to how one would go about doing this.

Thanks for reading!
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    Torque Owner Ryan Neighbour
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    #1
    09/07/2009 (7:12 pm)
    If only I'd have spent a minute looking at the forum. I found this thread that gives me some idea of how it's done.

    I guess now the question is, is it possible to have multiple UV-maps for an object? (I'm using Blender, it's cheap)

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    09/08/2009 (2:50 am)
    sorry for my english
    ok, to build interiors (buildings) i use constructor it´s a great tool, free too and easy to use
    about texturing large objects you can repeat the texture, mmmm find the constructor´s tutorials to see what im talking about
    sorry again jaja

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    #3
    09/08/2009 (3:10 am)
    No worries about your English, it's not that bad.

    I've used constructor a bit and I like it but since I'm working with T3D I'd rather avoid dif's if I can since they don't perform as well as dae's (collada) from what I've read.

    I should have clarified that I was asking about dts objects or meshes in general.

    Thanks for the response!