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MSFS20 Working on KSOW work-in-progress thread
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Currently have everything unwrapped at 2048x2048 and seems like it'll be okay, looks decent so far in SP.Will the tires share the same uv texture space?
Edit: i think the answer is no
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Was texturing in SP last night and had some decent results but needed to make some changes to the mesh. Wrapped up the whole texturing project into a smart material for use later.
Realized a couple things, 1st was that the wood deck needed to be much thicker than I had it and 2nd, the thing was missing the wheel jack. Here's an update with colorID color's applied plus the UVmap.
Realized a couple things, 1st was that the wood deck needed to be much thicker than I had it and 2nd, the thing was missing the wheel jack. Here's an update with colorID color's applied plus the UVmap.
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oh nice! i can see some wheels on the uv map!
how do you make the colorID colors? is that done by Vertex Color?
Thank you,ColorID's are made using TexTools uv mapping tools plugin for Blender. It creates the materials in the blender material stack and then also bakes the map (currently using TexTools Diffuse Bake). Attached a screenshot of the UV editor with TexTools open. As you can see in the Blender scene collection there's two versions, one has all the color maps for baking and the other has a single material for export to SP.
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Looks great, have you exported it yet, any issues, does it look the same in the game?
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Not looking same in game yet, think I have issues with the normal map or something. Time to start troubleshooting.
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Figured out part of the problem I was having getting textures to look correct in MSFS from Substance Painter. My project was started using the "DirectX" normal method and exported with the FS2020 template which flips the "Y" ch assuming OpenGL normals which gave me OpenGL normals 
. Changed my project settings back to OpenGL normal then re-exported and it looks much better, still not happy with the results and there's plenty of tweaking to do but it appears that issue is resolved. Here's 8AM | 9AM | 10AM screen grabs.
**EDIT** All my shading problems are solved now that I have the model's shading fixed. With the Normals "Y" flipped wrong the faces all looked flat with no smoothing at all. Needless to say I borked the shading in the process of trouble shooting. But it's all fixed with a simple "Shade Smooth" to all faces with "Auto Smooth" set to around 46°.
. Changed my project settings back to OpenGL normal then re-exported and it looks much better, still not happy with the results and there's plenty of tweaking to do but it appears that issue is resolved. Here's 8AM | 9AM | 10AM screen grabs. **EDIT** All my shading problems are solved now that I have the model's shading fixed. With the Normals "Y" flipped wrong the faces all looked flat with no smoothing at all. Needless to say I borked the shading in the process of trouble shooting. But it's all fixed with a simple "Shade Smooth" to all faces with "Auto Smooth" set to around 46°.
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