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Cryrid · 06-02-2010, 11:12 PM

Individually. They should still pick up AO from other visible geometry regardless of the UV, so you wont be losing any details. In fact, you'd be better off splitting the mesh into different pieces for the AO and hiding some anyway due to the moving parts involved - it would look funny if AO from the turret gets baked onto the front of the tank, as it will be there even if the turret is rotated 180 degrees.

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Cryrid Senior Member 299 - 72	Individually. They should still pick up AO from other visible geometry regardless of the UV, so you wont be losing any details. In fact, you'd be better off splitting the mesh into different pieces for the AO and hiding some anyway due to the moving parts involved - it would look funny if AO from the turret gets baked onto the front of the tank, as it will be there even if the turret is rotated 180 degrees. Last edited by Cryrid; 06-02-2010 at 11:14 PM.