Texture/skin Advice

[SwR]

Hi guys...

well, as you can see by the attachment, i am modeling 'something' (some will find it familiar... xD... lets see if someone recognize it). I am using 3dsmax.

My question is:

1) For texturing, which would be better: have only one *.jpg for all the body or split it (e.g., one jpg for arm, another for body, another for face)?

Obs: all the elements of the model are not yet attached. should i?

thanks in advance

Swr

[Dave_UK]

In general you'd want to keep things organised so if the arm and legs are going to be in same colours then I would put them onto the same texture sheet. Also depends on the texture sheet size if its big then you can put everything onto 1 sheet. i.e. 1024*1024.
I would attach all elements together so it would be easier to rig.

[SwR]

Thanks for the reply Dave_UK.

Right now i'm on the process of reworking the human leg (didn't liked it), but as soon as i finished it i'll put everything together and go for texture.


Swr

[kuman]

using one texture sheet or multiple ones is really up to you
for real time gfx texture space is limited obviously by the video card so that's why you see a lot of packing, for pre rendered/cinematic film stuff there's no real reason to minimize the use of texture sheets, short of disk size, speed issues in viewport and the time it takes to make a bigger textures.

as for attaching everything or not. it really doesn't matter. you should read up on the multi material. basically you can assign different polygons a material id and you can make a multi material where each id on the face corresponds to a sub material of the multi mat. check the help file for material id and multi material. should be all the info you need.