Advice on Texturing Complex Star Destroyer?

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Hey all, I haven’t posted in a while.

I’ve been working on this Star Destroyer for quite some time now, and I have begun to think about how I will go about texturing it. My problem is that the goal was to make as visually stunning of a recreation of the ship that I could, and by choice I modeled all of the greebles along the edges and between decks. This creates a tricky situation (and a nightmare) when going to UV unwrap since I would like to create an AO map.

I would love to keep everything on one texture if possible, or use a combination of procedural texturing and manually texture parts that need specific detail. If used in an animation, would the use of multiple textures or a single huge one affect performance more? How would you go about tackling something like this?

Thanks!

Edit: I did not create the TIE Fighter model, credit for that goes to Daniel74 on Blendswap

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Make armor plating texture. Use the knife tool to cut various shapes into the ship exterior. Google “Space Ship Exterior Textures” to get some ideas.

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Seen this? https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?273033-Sculpting-with-UVs-and-displacements

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That looks really interesting, I may give it a try :slight_smile: