hi, below is a sample of a taxiway sign im making. after sleepless nights i was finally able to learn how to Uv unwrap and then bake textures. but now im getting this very poor quality of textures. is there anyway to improve this or uv unwrapping? would be much appreciated. PS suggestions needed how to fit many signs in one frame by keeping best quality i have over 21 of these. TAI. and would you suggest 3dmax or blender for this thing?
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Blender textures baking
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same problem :/ any plugins would you recommend?
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To get best quality in a bake , or textures in general, you'd want to maximize the space occupied by the polygons in the available texture space, and minimize any empty space, to that :
1-UV ==> Average island scale : this will scale all unwrapped faces to be equal in their proportional size.
2-UV==> Pack islands : This will redistribute all the faces in the texture space with the goal to maximize coverage.
3-Choose the most important faces like the front of the sign, and scale them up in the UV view, and scale down (sometimes to a pixel) faces that are not important like the back of the sign, move the UVs around manually to minimize empty space.
The whole goal is to have high texel density for the faces you want to be prominent, and much lower density for faces that are hidden. Texture space is a valuable asset, so minimize it as much as you can.
1-UV ==> Average island scale : this will scale all unwrapped faces to be equal in their proportional size.
2-UV==> Pack islands : This will redistribute all the faces in the texture space with the goal to maximize coverage.
3-Choose the most important faces like the front of the sign, and scale them up in the UV view, and scale down (sometimes to a pixel) faces that are not important like the back of the sign, move the UVs around manually to minimize empty space.
The whole goal is to have high texel density for the faces you want to be prominent, and much lower density for faces that are hidden. Texture space is a valuable asset, so minimize it as much as you can.