Which technique is a better approach for Materials and UVs?

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Hi, I’ve made 3D models of a modular wall set for use in Unreal, I was wondering which would be a more optimal setup for models and UV’s.

  1. Should I UV the models in such a way that they can be used with most any power of 2 texture and have material instances that can be used on the walls interchangeably?

or

  1. Should I bake specific materials to the UVs in Blender and have a custom material for each baked UV texture?

I was thinking it would be best to go with the first method and leave baked UV map materials for things like a desk with many objects on top that never moves for example. I just wanted to run this by some Unreal users first.

Thanks

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Like you said, in my opinion the best material for a wall is a seamless UVs with a seamless material that way not only you can change the material you can connect walls to each other with a little tweaking. I have full levels where walls connect to each other with almost no notice of where they start and where they finish and yeah leave the complex UVs for complex stuff.

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Thanks for confirming this!