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lisa · 15th June 2009, 09:18 PM

I just posted up a couple of plugins I use to do this:
http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...ap-by-material

The first one applies materials to a model by crease angle, effectively breaking it into contiguous sections.

The second one automatically applies planar mapping to a model by material, where each section of the model that has the same material color forms a contiguous area of map space.

The second one requires a little manually adjustment to the map which is why I haven't posted it up earlier--you'll need to repack the map after you use it, unless you don't mind wasted texture space. (Probably doesn't matter for still images, but matters a lot for games.)

15th June 2009, 09:18 PM	#10
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: Looking for Tutorial on texturing/preparing UV maps I just posted up a couple of plugins I use to do this: http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...ap-by-material The first one applies materials to a model by crease angle, effectively breaking it into contiguous sections. The second one automatically applies planar mapping to a model by material, where each section of the model that has the same material color forms a contiguous area of map space. The second one requires a little manually adjustment to the map which is why I haven't posted it up earlier--you'll need to repack the map after you use it, unless you don't mind wasted texture space. (Probably doesn't matter for still images, but matters a lot for games.)