How does ACTOR MERGING handle texture combining?

[GoLionMk2]

@MostHost_LA

Well, unfortunately each bone is different if you are dealing with scanned data. Instancing won’t help here.

If you combine the meshes, yes, you will loose resolution. However how much resolution you loose might actually depend on how the merging occurs.

If you want to do it yourself, in a 3d program, you will get better reuslts.
the anutomated system doesnt usually know that multiple bones can fit next to each other because the UV isnt full.

I would manually merge parts until the UVs are full. This wont necessarily give you a single item, it really depends on the scan data…

Also, as far as quality upclose. Maybe you could levarare Virtual Texturing an that extended mapping here…

Aha!
This is exactly what I was looking for.
I can optimize the UV’s in Blender prior.

Haven’t heard of virtual texturing so will look it up