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darkr9

10-15-2002, 01:29 AM

What size UV map should one use for a character say in a broadcast quality render of an animation? Any standard size relations for frame size to map size? I'm use to to maps for games which are relatively small but what's cool for higher res stuff. Any insight would be great. Thanks in advance.

leigh

10-15-2002, 07:49 PM

I wrote a bit about this very conundurum in one of my tuts :)

Basically, you should make the image map about twice the size of the maximum pixel size that it will appear onscreen. For TV broadcast stuff, using anything under 1000x1000 pixels can be problematic ;)

darkr9

10-15-2002, 09:06 PM

Hey, thanks Leigh. I did a speed read of your tuts, guess that's why I missed it. Doh! Great stuff btw. Thanks again.

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