Upcoming large Photo-quality texture set.

I'm working on a large photo-texture set. I've uploaded the draft versions to flickr. Some aren't powers of 2 yet, but they're seamless and perty. On top of that, they're creative commons attribution license, so they're ok for commercial or non-commercial. I'd appreciate your feedback. Here's a bunch of samples from:

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Also some reference photos for your viewing enjoyment

http://flickr.com/search/?w=37452694%40 ... nce&m=text

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I find that an interesting comment...a few of those might look a bit blurry since you're looking at full zoom, but in my experience in-game they look fine. Compared to standard handrawn, default or CS textures, they're certainly more sharp.

Here are some in-game screens

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We're clearly not seeing eye to eye here. Those texture link you gave...they look hand drawn....they don't look real. I just don't like the way any hand-drawn textures look. They don't have enough lighting geometry and I'm frankly not impressed with how normals and bump maps look compared to real shadows. My textures are from photographs....they look real. Yes, some are blurry, but not all.

Does this look blurry to you?

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In terms of interestingness, that's definitely subjective. Most of what I'm showing here are generic materials that are tiled x and y, which is going to require removing a lot of the "interesting bits."

I'd like to understand the feedback that you're giving me, but it comes across more as insulting than constructive.

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Yes, but we are not living in the age of HL graphics anymore. It's nice of you to provide these textures though, some may find them quite useful.My advice would however be to not waste time on tiling the textures, I think many artists would want to do that themselves, at least I would.

An advice for the future: please avoid sharp shadows when you are taking photos of your textures. We have shaders to take care of that kind of shadowing nowadays, try to have the lighting as diffuse as possible. You should also try to have your camera focus on your motive. Blurry photo textures are pretty useless imo as they require alot of post work, sorry

Anyways, just words of advice for the future. I like your spirit though, keep it up

Teddy,

My goal is to make textures ready to use for mappers in a hl2 mod, so tiling the textures is somewhat necessary.

Could you provide an example of what you would consider a good exterior building texture so that I can see what you are trying to expain to me? I didn't think the ones Pericolos0 provided looked very real.

I really don't want to come off as stubborn, as you can probably guess some of these are back from the HL era and I'm trying to understand the points that you are making.