Free textures, and not-so-free textures...
by Ted Southard · in General Discussion · 07/03/2004 (6:54 am) · 5 replies
I've posted a small zip of textures(all power of 2 resolutions) on my website here. I'll be posting it as a resource as well, just to give back to all the people that have contributed to TGE and thus to my game project. For 613k, not to mention FREE, it's a steal!
I have no problem periodically releasing free textures like this, and even a few free generic objects, which I plan on doing sometime in the future. The questions I have are:
1) Are people willing to pay for sets of 50 or so textures like this? If so, what price would you think good for this?
2) Assuming that people are looking to buy textures to save them time, what kinds of textures are we looking for? Bricks are a forgone conclusion, and I have a good amount of those, and adding to it this weekend(I have over 200 raw photos, and I'll probably add another 100+ tomorrow).
Thanks!
I have no problem periodically releasing free textures like this, and even a few free generic objects, which I plan on doing sometime in the future. The questions I have are:
1) Are people willing to pay for sets of 50 or so textures like this? If so, what price would you think good for this?
2) Assuming that people are looking to buy textures to save them time, what kinds of textures are we looking for? Bricks are a forgone conclusion, and I have a good amount of those, and adding to it this weekend(I have over 200 raw photos, and I'll probably add another 100+ tomorrow).
Thanks!
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#2
07/03/2004 (7:32 am)
Just about all of them do, except for like 3 which are electrical panel textures. I try to get all my textures to tile at least in one direction, but this set tiles all ways. 
#3
I'm not sure there's a big calling for purchasing just a few textures, though. I've considered selling them as well. I just don't know.
07/03/2004 (7:53 am)
Those look nice, Ted.I'm not sure there's a big calling for purchasing just a few textures, though. I've considered selling them as well. I just don't know.
#4
07/03/2004 (8:55 am)
Have a look at the wadfather site for more free textures. They tend to be drawn instead of photographic, though.
#5
07/03/2004 (9:03 am)
Looks like good stuff, though even for those you need to contact the artist to use them in a commercial product. 
Torque 3D Owner dsfsd
Do they tile? (Haven't put them in anywhere, lazy)