10 Top Texturing Tips :: Tutorial

[Kabab]

Very useful thanks!!

[aussie3d]

Much appreciated Thanks, all this helps.
Gary..

[mandana]

wow.really useful man
thank you so much :thumbsup:

[eMPeck]

Good article, thanks :)

[Psionic Design]

Some great tips and techniques!!!

[betapilot]

Thanks man just what I needed.

[rayboy]

looks great - will have a full read later.

BTW the header image is flipped...

[MichaWha]

Very interesting tutorial, thank you !

[Jeggis]

Looks interesting. I've been diving into texturing/materializing the last months, maybe I'll pick up good tips and tricks:).
Thanks for sharing!

[Gravedigger]

aaah...great one! thanks for posting it here and thanks to our friend at game-artist.net aswell!

grs Gravedigger

[gamester]

A well done article. Very forward and helpful to anyone looking for direction on texture work. If I can point out one thing, on page 2 (http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4678&page=2) the forklift is flipped causing all the text to be backwards. It was kinda funny to see that and on the same page you talk about texture clusters. Then on the top, it looks like you mirrored the texture on the forklift. :)

[doylle]

Glad you guys like the article :)

Some of the images are mirrored indeed. The original models/textures were ok, but I'm afraid the graphics designer mirrored them to make a nicer banner...

ooh the irony... ^^

[Kanga]

Very informative and well written article Jeroen. The guide was a pleasure to read. Bookmarked:D.

Cheerio Chris

[Herne]

Great Stuff ! thanks to Jeroen ;) although i knew some of these things before, nevertheless,usefull,again thx

Cheers Herne

[swardson]

Nice job, well presented... good information. I will be referring to this one for sure.

Thanks!

Brad

[gauravindian]

Thanks for this tutorial.

[CGmonkey]

Much obliged, sir!:)

Great article..

[Ammarkk]

Thanks man .....
Really this is so cool tut ....
Thanks again..

[Rizo]

Great article, a lot of useful tips, thanks for sharing!
Cesar

[smurfbizkit2]

Definitely is one of the better texturing tutorials I've read, nicely done. :)

Was also cool to see one of the Hull Breach flats referenced, shame that mod is gone now.

[Brasil]

Its good opportunity to share more tips.. C'omon guys show your best tricks ;)

[davidportoles]

Sincelery, EXCELLENT
I discovered a couple of things that i have no doubt i'm going to use from now on.
thanks thanks thanks a lot!

[ds]

Er.....yeah.
I designed this article, its not mirrored at all, its all your monitors displays that are Flipped!!
Just Kidding, I was merely checking to see how much you are switched on...*cough*
;)

[Shawin]

Nice tips. I'm trying to learn texturing now and this was really worth reading.
Uh, btw there's something on page 2, number 9. "Some people use advanced GI settings to bake there AO maps". That should be "their". :p

[Fumetsu]

Bookmarked!
Thank you very much sir.

[stage-gr]

that was very interesting
thanks for your time and effort:thumbsup:

[dEDa]

THANK YOU!! I'm very happy to see that!
:bounce:

[mrwrong]

Thanks,man!
Concise and helpful!

[bjallal]

thx for this one ;)

[ninjacore]

good stuff.

i'm a keen fan of the Reduce Noise filter in Pshop. i mostly use it for it sharpness slider (why i dont use the unsharp mask i dont know..). then sometimes adding the sharpness but popping out a tiny bit of noise, getting some intresting results.

if you use a photo texture from a texture site, try and make it unique. theres been times either on here, or even in games, i've recognised a texture that i've seen before.

[Generalvivi]

This = awesome!

[Polydrawer]

tnx jeroen for the insightful information :)
and congratz on getting your article featured you guys did a great job teaming up with cgsociety.

[bleumoon]

Mirrored or not, those textures are gorgeous. Thanks for tanking the time to share some of your tricks. I'd be hard pressed to find any of that in a book :thumbsup:

[majid-smiley]

very useful! thanx...

[MatthewNovak]

Good stuff!

[ysvry]

great tut , thx for sharing.

[Hoen]

Thank you for this tutorial :) Really useful!

thanks! :beer:

[CrisdeLara2007]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial I learned a lot!! Really great!

[ivanegues]

Thanks!
Very helpful. :thumbsup:

[Au79]

Beautiful and useful tutorial.
Thank you very much for it, hope to try some of it soon :)

[todd4cgi]

Thanks a million, Paul. Those are excellent tips. I especially liked the information on using Blending Options in Photoshop to better integrate rust into a texture. Blending Options are one of those tools that always seem to slip my mind, but when I hear about them again I always think, "Of course!"

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Todd

[Kryzon]

Thank you for taking the time to write that article. It is the Holy Grail of indie game texturing :D

[MurdokX]

Great read, thank you

[thomashowes5]

Hey guys I'm not sure if this is even remotely possible but are you exporting the Ambient Occlusion or just using the mental ray AO material on objects?

[doylle]

Well the idea is to bake your shadow information to a texture, like you do with normal maps, and then use that in your diffuse map (well, generally). You can use mental ray for this, but it works equally well with scanline renderer. Once applied to the diffuse map, the difference is hardly visible... And even if there was a difference, it wouldn't really matter. No one will ever notice once it's ingame, or in a scene...

I hope that answers your question :)

Jeroen

[thomashowes5]

Thanks for your help!

[Silgrin]

OK, very nice and beautiful, but not everybody has Photoshop:banghead: I would praise sb for a link to Gimp tex layering, painting and UV!! "Grokking..." is too general, not goal-oriented, and I`m not advanced enough to study ref mans. I still can`t find any useful tutes... and all UV tutes I know end on or skip the section of 2D work! This keeps being a major obstacle for my tex work... recently I did some primitive "painting" in MS Photo Editor! not a nice job...

[virtualartbase]

really useful thnx for the post! ;)

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