Public Consensus.

[soulburn3d]

Actually, I think you'll find no public consensus and that everyone has a pretty different workflow for this sort of thing. Personally, I split things up into 2 categories, general textures and specific textures. General would be say a dirt pattern, which I'll reuse quite frequently, specific textures would be say the spots on a lizard which I'll hand paint for a particular model. And I have a large library of texture maps from photos I've taken which I use again and again, like I'll start with the same photo and then adjust the texture to fit whatever I'm trying to do in a particular image. I recommend going out into the world and taking lots of pictures, or visit some of the good free sites around for texture maps, keep a library, and start from the same stuff, but try and adjust your textures each time so you don't get exactly the same material for each image. And paint specific one off hero maps for things that need them. Finding a good balance between reuse and painting new textures will be necessary to avoid spending ridiculous amount of time but still keep your work looking fresh. Best of luck.

- Neil

[timmins02]

thaqnx for the reply, i was just wondering becuase i've been in the dark so long and wonder how everyone else does it. I do need to regain a texture library, i had a descent one colllected/made on my old laptop, but the harddrive is crashing nad im haveing trouble collecting the old files.

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