Hello everyone,
I am researching UE4 for my firm to use as a archviz tool. I have previous experience in UE3 but its been a while. (I am a game art grad who ended up in archviz.) I know that you have to create light maps for meshes but I’m curious about a specific. First let me explain my workflow. I work in 3DS Max to create scenes and when possible I just use the uv map modifier from max which uses a simple box or planar map method to create uvs for an object. Its useful for chairs or floors or something that doesn’t need to be unwrapped manually, but the uv’s are pretty ugly sometimes. So I have a scene that I rendered in VRAY originally but I’m trying to export the scene to UE4. That being said I exported in groups. For example, I exported all the furniture together as one fbx file, all the lights as one file etc. They all have a uv map but when exported together the uvs are obviously on top of one another and just crazy. Do I need to export each object seperately and unwrap the uvs for all objects to create the lightmaps correctly? Even ones that I want to use a basic material on? (laminate or alluminum) Obviously when I build the lighting I have overlapping lightmap uvs. This is probably a silly question so sorry guys! I’ll post images of my scene.