Good UVs or Good Geometry?

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Hi! I work with product visualization and I am been trying out unreal. I usually work from cad models which is no problem with a offline render, but I have been having issues in unreal. I understand that it’s preferable to work with a mesh that has good topology, but that’s not an option due to time constraints on projects.

I was wondering if there was a way to get around having to optimize the mesh for unreal? Is it enough to have good UVs if you aren’t worried about performance?

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If you use Nanite, you don’t need to optimize the mesh.

If you use ‘world aligned’ materials, you don’t need UVs at all.

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Thank you for answering!

I only have one about ‘world aligned’ materials though. If I where to animate it wouldn’t the texture move because it’s aligned to the object?

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Around 36:32 you have info how to cache world align offset naterial so it sticks to meshes.

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Thank you!