The TEXTURE TUTORIALS and FREE TEXTURES Thread


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Texturing Tutorial Links

Hello fellow texturing artists,

Due to the fact that we now have a number of cool texturing tutorials scattered around this forum, I thought it best to compile a nice thread that keeps all the links together in a concise fashion.

Please feel free to PM me with links to add to this list. I have closed the thread so that the links will be more easily accessible, as opposed to having to wade through pages and pages of links :wink:

Threads of particular Interest on CG Talk

Sometimes we get really extensive, fascinating and enlightening threads here, focusing on common texturing dilemmas. Again, please PM with me any links that you may come across that you really enjoyed and think others may benefit from. These are links to some:

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[li]Radial Anisotropy Getting that ?brushed metal? look
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[li]Human Skin WIPs Loads of human skin posts ? very cool reading
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[li]UV Mapping Tutorial Links A LOT of links here
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[li]A Collection of Displacement Mapping Links
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Online Texture Libraries

Everyone needs to find reference pics for their textures all the time, and sometimes Google Image Search just isn?t enough. Send me a PM with links to more sites that you think should be added here.

So, where are there some cool texturing sites that have loads of images?

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[li] http://goodtextures.com/
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[li] http://www.cydonian.com/photos/categories.php?cat_id=3
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[li] http://www.planetunreal.com/undulation/textures_n.htm
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[li] http://www.1000skies.com/fullpanos/index.htm
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[li] http://home.zonnet.nl/textures01/index.htm
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[li] http://www.animax.it
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[li] http://www.monitorstudios.com/bcloward/resources_textures.html
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[li] http://www.frenchtextures.com/site_gr.html
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[li] http://www.graysage.com/cg/BackDrops/index.html
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[li] http://www.imageafter.com/index.php
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[li] http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/lemog_textures/acc_textures01.html#
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[li] http://www.mayang.com/textures/
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[li] http://noctua-graphics.de/english/freetex_e.htm
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[li] http://perso.club-internet.fr/sebastien.gaucher/textures/textures.htm
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[li] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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[li] http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
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[li]http://art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture/
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[li]http://www.3dimplant.com/images.php
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[li]http://www.afflict.net/option_1/option_1.htm
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[li]http://www.fantasticarts.com/textures/index.htm
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[li]http://kosak.7dana.com/texture
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[li]http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/
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[li]http://rmmcnt7.cr.usgs.gov/ecl/reports/eclsmmry.cfm
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[li]http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/
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[li]http://texturez.flip.ru/
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[li]Flannelsauce
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[li]http://www.robotjam.com/freebies/textures.htm
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[li]http://www.thegrimypolygon.com/
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[li]http://www.3d.sk/
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[li]http://www.cgtextures.com/
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[li]http://www.environment-textures.com/
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Happy texturing!