Gas Station and UV Maps

Today I finally got around to modeling that gas station in blender to create isometric tiles.

To make modeling of larger objects easier and to keep a coherent color palette, I had to learn how to use UV maps along with a simple palette.

In Blender after 2.8, I found I had to use an image texture to import the palette and set it to Closest and set the Viewport settings to textured.

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After all this and linking the materials for all objects, I could set colors for each individual face or set of faces in the Blender edit mode.

Then I set the camera to Orthographic with rotation set to X 60° and Z to 45°. This model ended up being far too large which meant I also had to set the Orthographic scale and increase the clipping limits to avoid clipping.

After all that I could experiment by importing the render into Pyxel Edit and put it into the tilemap I’ve been playing around with.

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