What are Trim Sheets? 

i know I am kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good website to stream new series online?

It's called Atlas texture metod. Very old stuff.

Can you please tell what size of the plane we should use to make trim sheet

@@KugleeKuglee Yeah the best term word I had available for ages was Texture Atlas, but it's broad and can include collating single-object textures in one image to save on materials+draw calls. Trim Sheet is useful for describing a texture-first -uv-second, an inversion of the uv->texture process often used on detailed/hand painted characters/weapons

This comment perfectly summarizes my experience with 3d art

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me too

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definitely not too much, I'd say enough. I doubt the game would even run on that old hardware if you just used straight geo

I think you mean for a unique asset the model's geometry & UV map determine the texture, whereas with trim sheets, one starts with the texture and moves the UV's of a model and designs the geo to fit that texture.

Own created are usually better looking than image textures, but they are harder to make and usually end up costing more processing power. Quite frankly if you are doing 3d for games then image textures will do you fine.

Exactly! Chunk is one of the best teachers we've ever worked with

Woooh, this is some cross-over episode! :D

I think you are correct!

Different materials reference the same texture so that you can still get the variation you need between windows, bricks and metal etc. :)

You can apply them according to UV coordinates of models

Glad you think so!

If you use an entire photograph for your building, you can not reuse some texture you actually can share between multiple parts of your model. For example, you really don't need a big texture of entire wall for your building. Because of the repetitive nature of "wall texture" you can share it with a lots of wall in your building. So all the things you need is the texture packed with all of materials you want to use in your model. It reduces the number of draw calls in real time rendering (because the number of draw calls depend on the number of materials, usually. So if you pack your material as one texture in one material, the number of draw call become one!!) and you can improve the quality of texture because you can use a lot more texel by sharing them. If you don't care about real time use there's no benefit for most of the cases but it's useful to reduce required memory in offline rendering situations, too.

Yes! A texture atlas is the perfect way to describe a trim sheet

I tend to distinguish them in two ways. With texture atlases, I tend to see them assets that may or may not tile-for example, assets that aren’t necessarily designed to tile, but are brought together after authoring to optimize. You can atlas a bunch of characters or hero props on a single texture atlas, for example. You also may or may not plan to atlas these textures from the start, whereas with trim sheets, many of the textures are designed with tiling in mind and are pre-planned to be on the same sheet. They don’t need to be distinguished this way, but I tend to organize them into those two groups, with those thoughts in mind. But the rules are flexible.

I tend to distinguish them in two ways. With texture atlases, I tend to see them assets that may or may not tile-for example, assets that aren’t necessarily designed to tile, but are brought together after authoring to optimize. You can atlas a bunch of characters or hero props on a single texture atlas, for example. You also may or may not plan to atlas these textures from the start, whereas with trim sheets, many of the textures are designed with tiling in mind and are pre-planned to be on the same sheet. They don’t need to be distinguished this way, but I tend to organize them into those two groups, with those thoughts in mind. But the rules are flexible.

That's what the full course is there to teach you :)

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haha amazing! Glad to hear you learned something new!

@@fnmarket I have to admit I am really hoping this course will go on sale soon

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Exactly :)