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Is it wrong to have UV shells laid very close together?

I laid out my UVs within Max and put the shells very close together to maximise the space

but after polypainting in zbrush and sculpting for the normal map when I create the texture the diffuse and normal textures are overlapping ever-so-slightly in places even though the UV shells while extremely close arent overlapping at all

should this be a problem?

could the fact that I used the changed ‘Sud-d level 1 Mesh’ as opposed to the stored morph target mesh account for the texture being slightly larger than the UV shells and therefore overlap?

or is this just a normal occurence and UV shells should never be that close?

I know i can just change and scale the UV shells down slightly in Max and then re-import the Base mesh back in to change the UVs in zbrush but with 16 subtools this will be a ball-ache and Im curious

here is an image of the UVs

Thanks

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sorry mods wrong forum, :confused:

Depends on texture size and needed edge padding to avoid seams.
cheers