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Texture Maker

by Jared Reno · in Artist Corner · 06/19/2007 (3:11 pm) · 14 replies

What is a good Texture Maker that is at a reasonable price?(by reasonable I mean like a few bucks to a couple hundred). And dont mention Gimp.
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Torque Owner Roland Orr
Roland Dynamics
#1
06/19/2007 (3:25 pm)
Have you tried paint.net? i tried this in the past and it seemed pretty good.

best part from what i remember it was free as well.

check it out:

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html

Torque Owner David Tiernan
#2
06/19/2007 (3:52 pm)
Paint Shop Pro was always priced well for the feature list. Used to even have some seamless texture stuff to it. Looks like Corel owns them now but still decently priced. Give the trial a try looks like it's around a hundred bucks.

Torque Owner Alan James
Really Really Good Things Studio
#3
06/19/2007 (4:04 pm)
On Paint Shop Pro you need to get a version before Corel got a hold of it, and basically gutted it into photo editing software. The older versions will take the older Photoshop plugins also. Find version 7.0 if you can or earlier.

If you're really brave - and are up for what I consider a steep learning curve but would like some crazy cool textures - try MapZone, it's free. It's procedural textures that look really really nice.

My son uses Pixel, which is $38 dollars and has a lot of the features of Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, although my son's seem to crash now and again, but I don't believe it's even to a version 1.0 release and you'll get all updates to 2.0.

Jared Reno
#4
06/19/2007 (9:07 pm)
Thanks. Ill try them when I can.

@ Roland- do you make flash games and put them on newgrounds. Think I have seen your name before.

@David- Ill try the trial of it and thanks to you on that, cause gimp is powerful but lacks tools.

@ Alan- How steep is the learning curve for mapzone?

Torque Owner Deception Games
#5
06/19/2007 (9:56 pm)
There is a program called Texture Maker. The learning curve is not bad at all.

But I will recommend use Photo Shop 6 and up

Recommend to read this book if like to learn more on textures

3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop (Paperback)
by Luke Ahearn (Author)

Torque Owner Alan James
Really Really Good Things Studio
#6
06/19/2007 (11:41 pm)
The best thing to do Jared is probably to download Mapzone(since it is free) and try going through a few of the tutorials on their website. Some people seem to catch on to different things more than others, and love its interface. I just find it kind of confusing but it's probably because its just non-standard. And I'm kind of an old dog to learn new tricks.

Jared Reno
#7
06/20/2007 (9:45 am)
Thanks for the support guys. Where can I find Mapzone then?

Torque Owner Deception Games
#8
06/22/2007 (1:16 pm)
Try this, hear a lot people use it for it features and had good results

http://www.gimp.org/

Jared Reno
#9
06/22/2007 (1:50 pm)
I hate the gimp. Its powerful but it lacks tools. Like making a circle. It will cut one out but it wont draw one. Thats why I posted this. Now I need to find another one (tried mapzone and didnt work). Going to try the paint.net roland suggested. Again thanks to all of you.

Torque Owner Stephan Goebels
One Man Show
#10
06/22/2007 (2:02 pm)
Well hear you can find MaPZone 2.5

Read the article on blendernation MaPZone: The Most Powerful Texturing Tool Ever

Well hear you can find FxGen

Hear you find informations from the developer of FxGen

Well hear you can find werkkzeug3 TE

Philip Staiger
#11
07/21/2007 (8:35 pm)
There is Project Dogwaffle: www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle

Lots of tools top displace a texture by another, even animated, make seamless, make loopable, etc...

ranges between $0 and $119 depending on which version you get.

PD Particles is available here at GG for $19 but I don't recommend it by itself. It's great for painting with particle brushes and natural media for starters but lacks filters and swap buffers and animation and much more found in PD Pro

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#12
07/22/2007 (11:42 am)
I mostly use Corel's version of PsP 11 and find it very useful, myself. I'm migrating to Photoshop not becauase Photoshop (at least CS2) has better/more features, but because it's the industry standard. Were it not for that, and the company prefering things in PSD, I'd stay with PaintShopPro.

Torque Owner Brian -Cybore- Smith
Hostile Ai
#13
07/22/2007 (2:20 pm)
@Eric-I've used Corel for years, love it. You can also export to PSD with Corel.

Philip Staiger
#14
07/22/2007 (5:51 pm)
At a *very* reasonable rate you'll also find ArtWeaver (www.artweaver.de) - it is an image editor that's free, and it also has a plug into Project DOgwaffle, so if you for instance were to add PD Particles to your toolset you could directly send images painted in PD Particles, including alpha, over to ArtWeaver.

One thing which Dogwaffle and Artweaver share is the support for Lua scripting to make your own filters, or to modify existing ones written in Lua. To learn more about this feature check www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/lua

the GIMP also supports some of this (not the GUI server part)