combining object and maps into one

[PaulScheepers]

Hi All,

I have a scanned model of a city that consists of about 5000 small objects, all with their own shader / texture.

I would like to combine these into one larger model with one large diffuse map so it becomes far more manageable.

What would be the way to go?

Can I bake them all into one texture?

What about the individual UV maps?

- Paul

[francesco.torchia]

Hi @PaulScheepers,

if you plan to render your scene with Arnold, you can use the Render Selection to Texture utility. (You can find a quick video tutorial here)

In addition, you can choose either to merge the individual UV maps or to keep them apart, using the Combine Options.

Regards,

[francesco.torchia]

Hi @PaulScheepers,

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the video and the article help to solve your issue?

Regards,

[PaulScheepers]

The tutorial link doesn't work.

Combining the 5000 objects into one mesh already causes my system to crash...

I'm rendering with Redshift in the end.

[francesco.torchia]

Hi again @PaulScheepers,

sorry for the broken link! Here is the working one.

Please give it a try and let me know if it helps.

Regards,

[PaulScheepers]

The tutorial example object has an object with an ok uv-map.

In my case there's 5000 objects, with their respective uv-maps that need to be combined into one object with one uv-map. Then the texture of the original objects need to baked onto the new combined mesh...