How to ?: Game Textures

[Ian Jones]

umm.. its so small I can hardly see what it is. Not sure what your question is about...

[leigh]

Originally posted by Ashe Tie'skar
How do people make game textures like these? How do they make all the different color variations and blends and such.

Look on your Photoshop tool palette. You see the Paintbrush/Airbrush tool? Use that ;)

[Stroker]

For those kinds of variations, one of my favorite tricks is to use an HSB Adjustment Layer. Just add one, give the sliders a little tweak. With the HSB Ad-Layer mask filled with white, the HSB Ad-Layer will affect the whole graphic. Can't have that. So I'll fill it with black, then paint in the parts that I want affected. Maybe even soften the mask with some Gaussian Blur.

Or add a new Layer, change the blending mode to Overlay or something, and paint on that. Mess with Opactity and junk.

Depending on what I'm painting, I may or may not Merge Down (ctrl + e).

Another thing that has helped me is a method for what colours to use. Check it out: Picking Colours (http://w3.chrlmi.cablespeed.com/~halmich/tech-slop/pickingcolours/index.shtml).

If I find the time later, I'll post a few more thoughts.

[Stroker]

Hey, I almost forget that DarkGarden is the man.
Painting Eyes (http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/162/rating/)

That should keep you busy for awhile.

[leigh]

Oh I forgot to mention that the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools are fantastic for creating variations as well :)

[Ashe Tie'skar]

I think i found somewhat of what i was missing.... The brushes... I would read stuff about hard edge and soft edge and all this and that, but I wasn't understanding it. Anyway, i think i am looking for soft edge brushes and things like that....


Are there Gradient brushes out there?

Thanks for the help everyone...

If anyone knows where i can download some good brush sets that would be cool! Thanks!

[EricChadwick]

Open the Brushes palette. Click on the > arrow at the top right. Load new brushes. There are a few sets right there. And all the options are there in the palette to customize them to your own tastes.

To quickly change to harder/softer, use Ctrl [ and Ctrl ].

[MasonDoran]

here is something that will you help get a head start.....painting from scratch on a UV map for a low poly character is a bit blind at times so using a baked lighting can really spice things up very quickly.


http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/benmathis/benmathis_1.asp

[BiTMAP]

Wow that 3d total one will give me somthing to do and help me sharpen up, thnx :)

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