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scropo
04-30-2005, 08:15 PM
I have modelled a character(The Thing from the fantastic Four) and am having trouble with the texturing. I have the UV's laid out properly but the UV snapshot that I take, 2048*2048, is too small for the detail in the face. Is it possible to take separate snapshots of various body parts and put them together using one material? or do I have to use a separate material for each snapshot that I take( ie: head snapshot with blinn1, torso snapshot with blinn2)? or am I totally on the wrong track? I need the texture to run seamlessly from his head/neck area to his torso and if I make the head UV map larger than everything else the rock texture has thicker lines in it than the rest of the body. I have heard of UV linking but do not know how it works so an explanation of that would be great too.

thanks,
Steve
CGmonkey
04-30-2005, 10:17 PM
You'll have to have different materials on each UvSets.
vfx
05-01-2005, 10:40 AM
I'm in exactly the same boat. I am mapping a snake, and on a 1024 map, the body doesn't contain enough detail, I need that particular section of uv on a different map. I've gone into the material relationship editor, and I've created a second uvset, and copied the uvs there...BUT, when I select the set in the relationship editor, I can only choose the material thats currently applied to the model. No other materials are shown. Why is this?
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