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Unwrapping as part of building a texture sheet for small tools

Unwrapping as part of building a texture sheet for small tools

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Unwrapping as part of building a texture sheet for small tools

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In this video, I'll look at unwrapping these tools as part of a texture sheet. The idea is that we've got a bunch of small things and rather than have a unique texture for each one, which can eat up a lot of memory, we're going to make a texture sheet and stack UVs in. We'll see this a lot in games, especially in things like props, where most of the props may fit on one sheet and have simply sections of material rather than a unique unwrap for that tool. As an example on my texture sheet, I might have a section of wood and that will work for handles of things. I'll have a section of dented blackened steel and another section may be a wrought iron and this'll accommodate most of the things I need to do. I'll also add in a section of aluminum, as I'm going to make an aluminum ladder as part of my props in later videos. What I'll do to start out is go over to Photoshop and take my unwrapped checkers I've included as part of this project and lay some colors over, giving me areas to unwrap…

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