I do all my texturing before collapsing the stack, I work with a mirrored instance of my model. I sorta keep a mental note when texturing something that may need different details on either side, and just make space for it on the UV..
This is coming from a gaming point of view, to save texture space, but its always a good idea to keep textures neat!!!

Don't have much experience with Pelt Mapping, but my understanding of it would really recommend welding the model together... and slicing it down the symmetry line...

~C

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Yeah well in my case, both sides are symmetrical so I guess I can do it like my friend's. Because then it will make more rooms thus letting me be more detailed with the texture right?

EDIT: Oh wait, so did you texture half the mesh and at the same time had a mirrored "Instance" of it? So you're doing it like my friend's eh?

I'm also looking at this in a gaming perspective since I'm a gamer too ^^

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Can you link the pelt mapping tutorial please? I'm interested to have a look.

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Yeah, I have a mirrored instance... its cool coz then UVs update on bothsides, etc! It definately helps you to optimize the texture space, calling texture info for both sides of the model from the same UV space!!

What you making... car, character, gun?! Just wondering, coz we could take this a step further for smaller details...

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EDIT: [Link to www.youtube.com]

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Hi all

I am verymuch new to 3ds max and working on a small project about a big iceblock hitting a bottle of a beer and braking in to pieces but i want to make it look more realistic especially the braking into pieces part.So if enybody got a tutorial or any idea that can help me please help.

Thank you

Costa

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Hey Costa,
Doesn't quite fit the topic of this thread... but
Maybe this will help?! Haven't read the tut, but seems similar!!!
[Link to hammerbchen.blogspot.com]
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VarnishedOtter... byder posted the video tutorial that I watched about Pelt Mapping ^^

It's very helpful. I actually thought Pelt Mapping was like mandatory nowadays =P

Cool, guess I'll texture half my character and then mirror it ^^

Hope nothing goes wrong hahaha.

Oh and byder, if you're interested in what I'm making, you can look at it on my deviant:

jhawks.deviantart.com

It's under the title Alien Samurai and Japanese Kappa

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Coool, glad everything is good!!!
I'll definitely check out the deviantart page!!
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