Remaking Xen Textures

[DeathByNukes]

Does anyone have an idea as to how the Xen textures were first made? Any guesses?

Anyone know a website that I could look for information on?

These are the types I am interested in remaking:

http://img233.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=web28lc.jpg

Espescially this one:

[st0lve]

I think it always looks like the inside of a human with a microscope.

But try to make it from scratch.

[Sa74n]

heh.. had quite some fun doing the redesign of xen for nightwatch. unfortunatly nw died when hl2 came out.

heres a shot of the xen remake

made a few textures out of sponges, mushrooms, cellular images, diseases and painted a lot directly in ps. heavily depends on the sources and what you do with it with ps.

[kleinluka]

This should be in the texturing forum

[DaanO]

Those look great sa74n!!

[DeathByNukes]

st0lve:

Yea that's what I'm trying to do.

So far it looks like my best method is Clouds -> Find Edges

Sa74n:

Wow that's amazing for HL1.

Did you make that all yourself?

[Pericolos0]

this can be a very cool idea for a texture contest

make xen versions of hl2 textures

[DeathByNukes]

Haha do you mean HL2 versions of Xen textures?

[Pericolos0]

no i mean versions that fit with the hl2 textureset

so you can make a xen infested eastern european city!!

[Zacker]

Sa74n: NW still looks extremely sexy, it is incredible sad that it seem to have died out.

[von*ferret]

they should've just focused on releasing a hl1 and not a hl2 in my opinion, a lot of people on the NW team now doesn't have complete work. Satan and adam really come to mind, they did some _amazing_ work.

[Captain P]

NW isn't officially dead, is it?

That'd be real sad news. I remember that DarkTruth died out. At that point, only NW was left over as being a real promising one for me...

[Tequila]

they should've just focused on releasing a hl1 and not a hl2 in my opinion, a lot of people on the NW team now doesn't have complete work. Satan and adam really come to mind, they did some _amazing_ work.

Now they're saying that they're focusing on the HL2 version and potentially stopping the HL1 version altogether.

Illogical.

[kleinluka]

I'm with ferret on this one. I dont see the point of them stopping the hl1 version and wasting all the work. Oh well

[DaanO]

Same here. It's a shame. I surely would have played NW, installed HL1 again.