You got it dude!

My pleasure buddy. Would love to do more of these.

Of course Bharat, it's my pleasure!

Man, that's incredible! I love that. Made my day!

Let's goooo

My absolute pleasure!

Yeah it's tricky but honestly, you can achieve a lot!

My man Zak! Honored to see you here!

Hahah who needs therapy am i right

Can't stop!

Thanks buddy

My pleasure!

It's coming

Hah man I don't even know, I just google "Fellow stagg top view" on google and it's right there. Here museumstore.sfmoma.org/products/ekg-pro-studio-matte-black?variant=42540988760242

There's no clear answer here honestly. If the distortion is too strong, then don't rectangularize. A lot of the times you would use some kind of a Triplanar projection that is then baked onto the UVs, so the texture is compensating for the distortion in the UV map so it looks fine on the model. But yeah, you would have to just assess your own project and pick your battles. There's no absolute right or wrong.

Yezzir!

I would recommend using the triplanar node for things like this, you can kinda cheat without uving using multiple triplanar materials layered with each other, to break up surface repetition.

That's a great question. If you're using unique projections for each texture, than technically you don't need UVs. But that would significantly limit you. First, you wouldn't be able to animate-deform the model because the textures won't stick to it without UVs. Second, you wouldn't be able to use the model in other programs/render engines, since you would have to set up the unique projection in each separate engine. And third, you wouldn't be able to create textures in programs like Substance painter. But like Bendosage said, you could just use Triplanar (I like XYZ to UVW in Octane), that's what I'm using in the next video tutorial when texturing this model, I'm not even really using the UVs.

Yes! I want to!

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Here's my reply to another similar question: That's a great question. If you're using unique projections for each texture, than technically you don't need UVs. But that would significantly limit you. First, you wouldn't be able to animate-deform the model because the textures won't stick to it without UVs. Second, you wouldn't be able to use the model in other programs/render engines, since you would have to set up the unique projection in each separate engine. And third, you wouldn't be able to create textures in programs like Substance painter. But yeah you can just use XYZ to UVW or another projection node to override the (lack of) UVs, which is what I'm doing in my next tutorial texturing this model.

Really good point. Texel size is important but, from what I understand, it only truly matters if you fit all the UVs of every single part of the model into a single UV block or a set of UDIMs. In this case, each part had its own separate UV set so I just adjust the size of each texture according to the part's UVs. But I'll admit I'm not a UV master so I might be wrong, but I don't think it matters if your model is broken down into separate parts.