When doing lowres pixelart texture for lowpoly model, depending on UVs and seems some lines are perfect while others are choppy and pixelated. How would you make this more consistent? Any suggestions what are the most wrong things here and how to make it better while still maintaining thicc-pixel-lowpoly style? I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing when in comes to lowpoly character modelling and texturing so even entrylevel tips are welcome.
>>1001705One thing I thought about that I could basically make geometry perfectly fitting the texture. So that every line in texture would have a seam specifically made for it which will make everything go into separate UV islands, then all lines would be perfect and I could have like 4x4 pixel texture that is simply a palette. This would be interesting approach but I think it's kinda inflexible and it's also not pixelart at all, it's more like a vector art and it is an equivalent of vertex coloring I think? But if I want big gritty pixels which also look good, how do I make it right and consistent?
>>1001705You need rectangular uv islands for pixel textures, your current ones are unsuitable, use google
>>1001710Do you mean something like this? I'm not sure if I repaint over those islands it will be any better, but I'll try.
>>1001710Okay, so I did this and I don't see how this supposed to change anything at all. The only way it could change anything is if I literally draw the texture outlines in UV itself as basically vector art. At that point I could use 3x3 texture just for palette.
I'm probably looking for how to actually make this texture look better, like add some painted dithering or painted shading or idk what. I don't know how that called and what to google in context of 3d especially.
Dude, just look at >>1000620Especially point #3. The point is that pixels are obviously square, and are laid out in an axis aligned grid. By making your contours straight on the actual texture, not curved as in your image, you make sure that when your texture is sampled it doesn't sample staircases but straight lines.
>>1001725This is not my problem though, this is not what I'm unhappy about. I just changed resolution from 256x256 to 512x512 and it's a bit better now, but my point is I wanted to know how to make it look cool in extremely low resolution, possibly even smaller than 256. And the problem is most likely that the texture like this (super clean and minimal) couldn't possibly work in such resolution without adding some dithering, noise, shading, idk what. In old games super lowfi texture work great but they're not minimal flat lineart with few colors, they're basically lofi PBR textures, and being full multigradient noise fields salvages their resolution.
>>1001725And yeah sure that one is fine becuase it's not flat colors it has proper shading.
>>1001726On 7 there's literally 8 colors and nothing more, no antialiasing on brush or falloff or whatever, which would soften edges even in 256.
>>1001725You know what, thanks for that one, maybe I'll try that "muffler" part, I wonder what it's gonna end up like.
>>1001725Damn, you're so right. Thank you!
>>1001705dont make your texture fit your uvs, make your uvs fit your texture.
>>1001771pretty much this;divide your maps in 64x64 format and place your wraps accordingly. Most early games have their textures in tiles.
>>1001705Texel Density plugin for blender
What >>1001725 and >>1001771 said was exactly my problem, after making UVs fit texture rather than drawing texture on top of UV unwrap a lot of it turned into silky smooth lines >>1001749.Anyway, it would be very nice if anyone can share links of videos or stream recordings of people doing this technique of wrapping UVs around texture, because when I did it, it was damn unpredictable and I had to basically bruteforce moving vertices around until it looked good. The resulting UVs look kinda insane. Would be nice to see how people who are good at this make it in a more civilized way, maybe there are some tips or things to know that make it easier or more predictable.
If anyone wonders, it's 1586 polygons.
>>1001900https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcJQ6Jdue4
>>1001905Nice improvement, but why is her skin so gray?
>>1001905Good work, but you can delete a lot of poligons that don't do anything for the shape
this thread is yet another proof that artistic "talent" is just general intelligenceI can barely believe you weren't trolling us
