Creating Lod Textures

[omega343]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone could answer this question for me. I am using maya 7 and was wondering if there was a way to use only one texture map for the low, medium, and high res models. The way my supervisor was thinking we could do this was to map the low poly UVs, map the medium poly to match the outline of those UVs, and do the same with the high poly, then possibly using just one texture that fit all the models. However, the process of making the more detailed UV sets match the low poly UV set is very time consuming, so i was hoping that someone knew of a different, better way of doing this. Please let me know, as this would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[joojaa]

Well its because of how you made the lods.

if you would work lowlevel model uvmap, spliyt way you would get the uvmap as a side effect of your process, and all the lods too.

However they don't need to match that accurately nobody will see it. kind of the idea.

[omega343]

But one texture for all of them will work, just have them in different resolutions? Also, i've heard talk about the Surface Sampler tool. Is that just for baking normal maps into low resolution meshes?

[joojaa]

Well the entire idea of havinga lod mesh and then texture it with edifferent texture kindof defeats the idea!