Creating Detailed Floors for Games Using Trim Sheets + Tiling Textures (UE5) 

good question! I suppose either way would be totally fine at the end of the day. I opted for this method just to keep things all together and (in my opinion) easier to work with. I can see how vert painting might be easier if things are separated as you can divide them up more cleanly. In fact the more I think about it the more your idea works, but it might be trickier to align things at a micro level, and lightmaps would bake very strange. Its all dependent on the situation, If I were to redo this I might do it how you described, would be faster

The issue I see with making a separate piece of geo is that you risk z-fighting.

How to get the plugin uvMapper v3.2?

means a lot, thanks so much

It'll speed things up a ton! Also love the asuka icon, good taste ^__^

always coming in at record speeds

​@@tiedie Dang im late

Ha! Fancy seeing you here :D I'm using it for work as I write this too, who would have thought UVs would reunite us all?

That or they could be 1k as well.

@@justin9649 in that case wouldnt they need three textures? the curved area, the straight version of the thinner bricks, and the main tiling bricks? Could be either way, figured it would be easiest to put it all on one trim

@@tiedie yeah, trim sheets are still extremely useful and the video is still really good for people wanting to learn about them. It was just something I had noticed when analysing the photo. Id have to look at the ref again of your screenshots, but if there is a third, then they could've made one 2k, with 3 or 4 1k square variations. Tons of ways of going about this, but it's fun deciphering what other artists have done.

I love trim sheets. And the upside to your method is that it's typically going to be more optimized.

yea, if you mapped a much of tiles to a texture you could hand place them around and use that. It might be very tedious though, I still think it might be best to map like this and add several tiles popping out or use height maps for extra depth. Lots of ways to go about it depending on the scene

thanks xD glad the webcam idea went over well

many thanks for the video though, very informative !

just had a realization while experimenting with this... isnt this almost the same way how you learn about textures on the first place?? at the least when i started way way way back, 1 - download some random tileable textures on the net 2 - apply that as a material on your object 3 - do the uv thingy where you would get what look what you want. scale it up/down or move it(because at the beginning i didnt know what uv was) when it boils down to it, isnt it just that? just applied in a way that you now know more about uv mapping, texel density, trims, kitbash etc while i was experimenting now, i was like "didnt i use to do it this way before too?" once i figured that out, everything just became intuitive because its almost the exact same way i was doing stuffs before i learnt about substance painter and custom textures tsk.. this is my own fault of course. i got too stuck with substance painter getting called the "industry standard" that i forgot about the basics... also, it now clicked why someone would use substance designer.. i never got designer before this now i miss my old texture collection i downloaded way back.... why is this not thought immediately? cause when you try to learn texturing to move away from the basics, you would be guided on the texture painting route...

ah sorry to hear that :/ maybe try no spaces? I never tried it on my end so idk 100%. It might be best to reach out to them on twitter or their email to find out. Sorry about that

@@tiedie all solved from rizom side, no worries :) thanks!!!

really happy to hear that ^__^

@@tiedie I haven't checked out your whole channel, but if you haven't already, I would love to see your approach to making smaller assets like the clutter you see laying around in these types of scenes. I really like the art style you've used here. Has that nice mix of realistic/artistic

@@AndrewByrnes1 I've done a few more tutorials focused around props, but more hero props than anything. You can find those on my artstation page, but having more tuts on set dressing is a good idea :)

In general, Ngons are bad because when you bring them into an engine they auto triangulate. This can be bad because its not controlled and can lead to some crazy shapes, shading, and normal issues. We use ngons all the time in the industry as long as we know they're safe, and thats typically along flat surfaces like these. even if this is triangulated, it will still be a flat plane. Because of so, im not worried about leaving this as an ngon when I bring it into unreal :)

@@tiedie oh wow, that makes a lot of sense. This will be good to know in the future, thanks a lot for the quick reply.

@@blayde98 make sure to alway ask why