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Painting across seams is not smooth?


SeekerOfWisdom
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When painting on a smaller scale, there does not appear to be smooth painting going over my seams. They are getting in the way and its like impossible to paint over them.

 

Notice the visible seam in the following pic when trying to paint over it: 

 

 

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Also why is the quality so jagged? The same happens to my textures even when using 4k maps, also I set the project UV set to 4k too.

 

Using per pixel painting on a low poly mesh, tried different uv's and brushes, texture size is 4k and looks perfect in photoshop

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Sure its just a simple pants model I retopo'd, tried making different types of uv's in 3d coat and both maya, issue still persists.

Something odd though is when painting in mudbox it paints over the seam smoothly, and displays fine in maya, BUT
inside unreal engine the seam becomes visible with the same display problem as 3dcoat. So I guess 3dc is more true to what unreal is,

Either way what could be the problem? Are my uv's not proper even though I tried many different ways?

 

Here is the model - 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqk96vo6uuxzikz/pants1.obj?dl=0

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Thanks for taking a look! A few questions-

 

Where can I find this padding preferences? 

 

What about the jaggedness of the lines and how pixelated they look when painting that small, is this normal? Or does it rely on the mesh topology / resolution? 

 

And a question about uv seams in general- Is it not really possible to completely hide a seam? Painting over it will still be a bit notice-able in a game engine like unreal if you look close to the texture? So even with this method, the only other way to go about it still is to place the seam cuts in hidden places?

As someone new to understanding UV's, this seems hard to do sometimes when you want to avoid stretching

 

I've started to examine game models and although some games have seams easily spotted everywhere, others I can sometimes not even find any seams!
Even on unclothed characters- Not on the inner leg, outer leg, inner arm, outer arm, back neck no where! How are they doing it?

Thanks very much for the help!

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I still seem to have this problem in 4.5.22.

 

 

I placed a dot right on the symmetry line and unless I use symmetry I get an artefact even though the UV's are mirrored. Is there a setting / something I'm missing.

 

Cheers

 

Greg

From my testing it appears to be a mirroring UV island bug...  Like you I get artifacts unless I have symmetry enabled...

Baked from the retopo using using PPP without a normal map...

 

This is a different problem than the original post...

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