My arch thing model something..

    um.

    how do I say this nicely...

    that entire structure should fit on one 1024. All your pillars should share the same texture (just rotate them differently if you want.)

    You wasted so much texture space I literally gagged on what I was drinking.

    If I were you I'd start over again and FORCE myself to do it correctly.

    As for having a normal map. That seems a bit suspect. Your diffusion layer (the color layer for you kids at home) has a bunch of shadow detail on it. You beveled and chipped things out. You should kill all the shadows and highlights and let the normal map do its job.

    Makes a pretty render though.

    Heh I made an UV that is a bit more appropirate at least.

    I could still have fitted a lot more objects in it, but this is more of what I would have done if I made the model again.

    [Blocked Image: http://blaz.csbanana.com/packed.jpg]

    Also the normal map was only really for the little textured details in the arch thing.. those that should look like they stick out a bit.

    As mike said, using so many textures for a single mesh is hugely inefficient. You really wanna try and keep it to a single texture per mesh, as this way the graphics card can cruise through all those triangles in a single batch as opposed to stopping and starting at each mesh sub section because it needs to switch materials.

    yeah i know i just wasnt good enough on uving at all when i started this model and thats why i made like this if it would be for usage in a game id have to do major changes to the model itself too so.

    But Ive learnt a lot til next model

    my main priority now is to learn the program well. when i do that i can start thinking about poly limits, correct uvwing etc.

    because as i said im still a real n00b on max :\

    just a thought for the arch texture pic you posted (dont know if this would really be better im f*cking noob at these things) but i think you might want to make the texture just a straight one instead of that arch like and just uvw it per section of the arch (dont really know how to say that hope you understand) it would look kinda messy inbetween but that would only be seen from far away i believe so that wont really be seen. this way your texture would be really smaller so atleast that would be better

    thx stolve ill check em out.

    improving my uv skills every day now

    still a long way to go heh.

    UVed this simple trashcan yesterday just to practise some stitching etc and I think it's quite well packed now actually. If I'd want unique sides on the trashcan tho I'd have to do it another way obviously. But for this I didn't need that. As you can see I didn't put my soul down making the texture

    [Blocked Image: http://blaz.csbanana.com/trashcan.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://blaz.csbanana.com/trashcan_tex_0.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://blaz.csbanana.com/trashcan_tex_1.jpg]

    can I get the sites you learned this from ( If your using 3ds max that is and if you tell me how to make a useable model of it ( since daan0 couldn't ))

    btw when my eye saw that trashcan i thought i saw a look-out tower i blinked and thought , hey , maybe it's a trashcan too different textures imo . but I still wub you either way

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