Hey guys and girls ... wait, who am I kidding ...
Guys, I am looking for some advice, help, links or whatever to help me in the creation of some really good quality rock textures.
Now I have done a fair bit if searching and experimentation myself, and have tried the render diffuse clouds and spotlight technique suggested in various tutorials to moderate success. I have also tried working from a variety of rock photos working at layering different parts of different rock pictures together as desaturated overlay layers to create a composite texture.
However most of my results come out at best as average. I don't seem to be able to make nice textures with lots of detail that can tile, without them showing up horrible tiling patterns.
I find, to my frustration, that working the tiling out of the textures, tends to homogonise the whole thing and I lose all the detail. Likewise trying to work variation and detail back into the texture seems to just bring back the horrible tiling. Its annoying since pretty much anything else I seem to be able to tile decently enough, offset filter, clone and heal brush stylee, but rock ... just doesn't seem to work.
Looking at the rock textures in EP2 and the kind of stuff artists here like Phil K have turned out, I think I am missing some vital aspect of the creation process and or I am just plain doing it wrong.
Whilst I am no artist, and don't hope to suddenly miraculously create amazing texture work by clicking a few filters, I am hopeful that you guys can give me some advice and pointers to help me improve the crap I am currently turning out. I am pretty proficient with Photoshop technically, and have been able to turn out a variety of reasonable textures, but rock, god damn it, I just don't seem to be able to get looking good.
Any tips, pointers or advice would be really appreciated.
