totally random texture thread

[Method]

Thanks guys. Your words are much appriciated. Something I made last night.

I looked at Gears of War screenshots and noticed they used wood a lot. Hence I decided to create some for me.

-Method

[SKULLHOZER]

Texture dump...

Some refraction* textures I recently created for use in the Source engine:

*Well, the first one isn't a refraction texture. Still, it's new, so there.

[Pericolos0]

very cool stuff, but i think you need to work on your spec maps. Alot of these look like they are covered in slime or plastic (atleast from the renders you showed)

[Psy]

Method...that actually looks like the mansion from GoW.

[Quakis]

The above textures are very nice, some good eye candy while scrolling down - but I have to agree about the specular maps on some of them, some bricks feel like plastic.

[Method]

Psycho: It's actually one of the test rooms, I throw stuff in and test new textures. Although I was going with that arch/brick design as seen in GoW.

Anyone knows if Epic released any sample textures to look at their quality?

-Method

[SKULLHOZER]

Yeah, it looks way too shiny. That's just how I rendered them in XSI though (still playing around with the settings), none of them were rendered with spec maps. I should really render them in a game engine like Doom 3 (Q4 or Prey, perhaps?) PS: Method, I love your texture tutorial, immeasurably helpful! That wood texture is ace, too.

[Rick_D]

created by: cgtextures

[aevirex]

Psycho: It's actually one of the test rooms, I throw stuff in and test new textures. Although I was going with that arch/brick design as seen in GoW.

Anyone knows if Epic released any sample textures to look at their quality?

-Method

Looks good. As for texture samples, no. But as you might know, Gears of War will be released for PC this year.

EDIT: and it will ship with UnrealEd afaik.

[Method]

SKULLHOZER: Glad it was useful man

Aevirex: Yea, I plan to analyze those textures and how they implemented them into the levels. Looking at the screenshots, I can recreate several areas in Doom 3 engine, but some things I would like to take a closer look at how they've done it. That's pretty much how I grow in skill, I look at things I like and try to create content of similar quality.

-Method

[FMPONE]

method what engine is that on?

q4?

[dissonance]

wow, skull, that's a lot. i like most of them (except the brick/plaster combo; the hightmap seems exaggerated), but i have to ask: how long did you spend polishing them? they're shiny as hell!

[Method]

FMPONE: That's Quake 4 (Doom3 Engine). Textures are 512 x 512.

-Method

[FMPONE]

Well its quite fantastic, you need to keep it up then port it to UE3

Do you know of the roboblitz editor? You might as well get started now ;D

Keep it up man.

[Method]

Thanks man. It's a simple test room.

I'm not interested in Unreal. id tech for life, homie. Ya heard!

-Method