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Where to find textures?

by James Urquhart · in Artist Corner · 08/08/2002 (12:55 pm) · 5 replies

I pretty much suck at making any sort of texture for a map...

Are there any sites which have textures on that i can freely use in a commerical game?

Thanks for your help.
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Torque Owner Very Interactive Person
#1
08/08/2002 (1:00 pm)
I would really be carefull about that as long as you do not have something on paper. Its not becuase it says on the site the textures are free the author cannot take you to court when you release (it doesn't count what is said on the site itself)... Its also dangerous becuase you see the same textures over and over on different sites and they all say they're free... but they don't even know who made them.
Also do not make the mistake to go search for free textures and edit them thinking no one will recognize them. There are soo many mods out there that did that (even in some CS maps you can find textures from internet sites)... a graphic artist will see it immidiately.. when I see such a thing, my respect for the work drops almost to zero...

Anyway here are some good links:

http://www.planethalflife.com/wadfather/
http://3dtextureworld.com/
http://www.3dlinks.com/textures_free.cfm

I suggest you make your own tough, or find someone that can do it for you. Its not that hard ;)

Tim Downs
#2
01/03/2003 (9:04 pm)
If you have the latest version of Photoshop you have all the key tool to making textures. Use the offset filter to see the part of the texture that doesn't line up right and use the healing brush to fix it. That is what I have done and it works nicely.

Torque Owner Curtis Turner II
39th Studios, LLC
#3
04/04/2003 (12:03 pm)
Well, a good, albeit small (8-10), percentage of us males are red/green color blind, and that does affect what our textures look like (at least to others) a great deal. =) I've gotten a good laugh at some of the textures I made in my spare time when I was working on Chapter Honour.

Roughly one in ten aren't seeing things the same way you are. That's why someone else will be making my textures.

Hilary Rhodes
#4
04/05/2003 (7:20 pm)
Textures! Buy a program like Artmatic (http://www.uisoftware.com) or Bryce (http://www.corel.com). Artmatic is solely a texture synthesis application and you can generate infinitely beautiful realistic fractal textures in the texture synthesiser in Bryce.

My virtual worlds do not use any photographic mapping (http://www.members.optushome.com.au/hilary/Vworlds/Expl.html) and it is an example of what can be done using procedural textures only.

Hilary

Torque Owner Kirby Webber
#5
04/05/2003 (7:33 pm)
Free textures that can be used commercially