Is there a reason we unwrapped the plane the way we did?

[proc24]

Hey there,

in the lecture Procedural Brick - Brick Pattern at around 5:00 stephen adapts the plane unwrap by manually scaling the island to match the plane dimensions, then placing it to the bottom left edge of the UV Coordinate Square.

I usually unwrap differently, mainly I try to have all the UV Islands be inside that square if possible. So I played around a bit and here is the unwrap comparision:

I needed to double the Vector Math > Scale value in our current node group to get the same results as we have in the lecture:

Is there a reason we did unwrap the plane the way we did in the lecture? Are there any upsides- and downsides to either approach?

Thanks in advance!

[NP5]

Presumably just a personal preference. It is a repeating pattern so it does not matter that I can see. Just the scale had to be adjusted.

[zeRgenTa]

I think the reason he did it that way, was so that the value in the scale node was equal to the number of bricks in the vertical axis of the wall. Which will come in handy when you’re making it into a node group.