why did you combine all 3 guns into one texture?

I actually have 3 question 

1- why did you UV all 3 guns into one texture wouldn't it be better if every gun has it's own 4k texture? 

2- did you pack all the UV the same way you did with the gun modeling course manually? 

if yes 

wouldn't it be better to use an addon to pack my UV faster like UVpackmaster addon? 

thank you 

  • Jonathan Lampel replied

    Good question! I was thinking of the three guns as a set of assets that would be used together in the game and one large texture is much more efficient for performance than several smaller textures. If they were to be used separately or if one would show up without the others though, separate textures would work great. 

    I used the UV Packmaster addon and it saved my bacon. I had started out doing it manually and it was a nightmare 😄 I literally spent a whole day or two just unwrapping and packing before discovering the addon. 

  • whity replied

    I see thank you