TEXTURES: Official Thread

[DarkMatter 21]

Welcome to the new, official textures thread. This thread has one purpose, and one purpose only. To act as a repository for posting textures. Try to keep discussion to a minimum, but if you have a nice texture to post, or if you have a link to a site with some good textures, post them here. Textures should be posted directly inside your post, as high of quality jpegs as you can afford and still upload. Links should be posted with a name and a short description of the kinds of textures on that site.

 

Image After: Quality, Large, Real-Life Textures and Photos

http://www.imageafter.com

 

Mayang's Free Textures: Lots of free, quality textures

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

 

Texture Bin 342: Some more textures
http://www.digitalcraftsman.com/textureBin/textureBin.htm

 

PlanIt 3D: PlanIt 3D's great tileable texture repository!

http://www.planit3d.com/source/texture_files/textures.htm

 

 

[EmergentFungus 29]

Thanks for getting this thread up DM.

 

There are 2 large files for 3DS MAX that contain about 500 texture files between them.

 

Architectural Materials (131mb)

3dS Max Sample (66mb)

 

They are large files but if you are into making good buildings, they are a must.

 

One of mine; Glass

 

 

It looks better when the translucentcy has been raised.

[broken 0]

Thanks for the thread, as well as the links. I loaded up the BAT for the first time last night and quickly realized that I have no idea how to make the textures I needed, or where to get them. Googling helped a little, until I noticed that everybody's repository usually shared the same set of textures

Chris

[Lord_Quillian2 38]

This has to be one of the best texture pages I have ever found. I work a LOT with 3d modells to buildng real-time environments and this site has been really useful.

 

Noctua Graphics

http://www.noctua-graphics.de/english/fraset_e.htm

 

I know absolutely loads more so if anyone wants to know the ask, and I sall post here.

 

LQ2

[mrbisonm 1,620]

If you WANT LINKShttps://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/3.gif>, well... I found the link page of this site:

 

http://couchspuds.homestead.com/FourlandtextureLinks.html

 

You have enough for a couple of hours here............................https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/4.gif>

[JAMiUs 9]

here's a couple of textures i use....

Glass (it looks good as a small window reflection)

 

Windows (for those who cant be bothered with making windows... the first one looks good as a door too)

   

And finally...... a brick texture i use when making old style houses (i've still yet to upload)

 

 

 

 

[deadwoods 542]

I'm looking for a flat tin roof texture. I don't know if ribbed is the right word. There are heaps of corrugated tin textures around (i.e. the sine wave profile). I'm after something like (sorry for the ascii line art)...

 

|___|___|___|___|

 

I'm still searching the various links people have added here, but not found anything yet.

[jbbry232 87]

MaxisMike showed me this one...

 

• http://textures.forrest.cz

he says that they got some of their ideas from here....

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Thanks for all the great links.  It seems that the biggest problem I have is deciding on a texture to use.  The variety will definitely help.

[talith 0]

Here is a site i made. There are about 200 some textures here. I found them on the web, and they were used in Unreal Tournament as map textures. The site might load a little slow for modem users since the front page has a gallery of all the textures in thumbnail view. I think these textures would look great on ghetto residential or industrial. I also place the link on my sig for future reference.
Textures

[couchpotato 8]

http://couchspuds.homestead.com/FourlandtextureLinks.html

It's a page of links to texture sites. 

[ak-ak-adak 0]

All u will ever want brick texture link:

http://www.acmebrick.com/cgi-bin/arch.pl

 

Once there, look left and u'll see the word Architectural. Don't click it. Just put your mouse over the word & a window pops up. Select the type of brick (many to choose from) then click show, then save the brick image.

[+Guest]

Here is a few stupid questions.I havn't gotten past the box due to the plug-in problems but if I ever did what do ya do with a texture download and where do ya download it to?.Thanx Blackbeard

[RalphaelNinja 244]

The following textures are from MaxisBrian from the thread Using Gmax, advice, tips and feedback. Since they were scattered across 342 posts, I've gathered them here; they point to the same image file as the original posts.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/RoofTexture.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/Brick.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/CutStone.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/CutStone_Bump.jpg border=0>

Bump map for the bricks.. unfortunately not supported by the current BAT

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/Roof_Asphalt.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/Roof_Shingles_Slate.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/Roof_Shingles_Bump.jpg border=0>

Bump mapping for the shingles

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/tin%20roof.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/tin%20roof_bump.jpg border=0>

Bump mapping for the tin roof...

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/HVAC.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/HVAC_bump.jpg border=0>

Bump mapping

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/trash%20can.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/trash%20can_bump.jpg border=0>

Garbage can bump.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/pipes1.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/pipes_bump.jpg border=0>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/concrete.jpg border=0>

concrete

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/concrete_bump.jpg border=0>

Bump for concrete

 

 

[Decius 360]

I'm searching for a texture/color that goes on cilinders like this.
http://www.gb-multimedia.com/gallery/distillation001.jpg>
infact its for these same towers only recreated in Gmax but I dont have any idea how to get a texture like this shiny and stuff. Ralphael yours are getting pretty close but they are still a bit to dark. Any ideas guys were to look best? Nice shiny metal textures for tubes and stuff would be best

[Screwballl 196]

i think i've been doing well with GMAX and my buildings but one question i have, what is the purpose of the regular maps versus the bumps? I haven't seen a specific purpose for using multi-materials on any part of a building such as the roof plus bump...
so just as a simple question, what is the purpose of the bumps and can you please show screenshots because sometimes words dont explain it properly?

[ak-ak-adak 0]

Architectural Precast panel textures. Different colors to choose from.

http://www.archprecast.org/

[ak-ak-adak 0]

Architectural Precast panel textures. Different colors to choose from.

http://www.archprecast.org/
http://www.gagebrothers.com/precast/textureandcolor.htm
http://www.gagebrothers.com/masonry/brick.htm

[couchpotato 8]

Here are a couple I made in Photoshop.   Really nice building. Looking forward to seeing it in the game. 

[ed_diaz 10]

this is an awesome thread..cant believe i never saw it....i was wondering..does anyone know where i can find a really really good texture to use for my sears tower??? ..cant seem to find one..and my last choose woudl be to create my own..

[Tunafish 48]

where do you save the textures?

[deadwoods 542]

FYI, I've put some info in the Photoshop tutorial about creating your own textures with 1) a digital camera and 2) using the texturizer filter in Photoshop. See the link in my sig.

[couchpotato 8]

You can save them anywhere you want.   I created a matlib (material library) folder with lots of subfolders.  The important thing is to tell GMax where they are located.  Do this throught the customize folder... configure paths... bitmat and add. 

[maxismike 0]

http://textures.forrest.cz/ - good resource i used to use back in the day.

We have a massive library of textures at EA that we tend to draw from.

The big part about getting chrome right is to use an environment type map instead of explicit UV. There is a tab in the map panel of the material, under coordinates. Set the mapping type to Environ and try a cylidrical or spherical map.

[ak-ak-adak 0]

Maxismike,

Would u & the good people @ EA like to share this massive library of textures at EA by releasing a texture pak @ simcity.ea.com?

[deadwoods 542]

I've found some others:

• Free Textures. It has a lot of nature textures, such as stone, trees, bark etc. It can be found at http://www.free-textures.com/ .
  
• Paul Bourke's Textures. More great textures, including a ton of nature ones. ITcan be found at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/ .
  

[geekdestroyer 1]

You dont need Gmax to do bump maps, as long as you have a Image editing program such as Photoshop.

 

Here is my way of doing bump using Photoshop, Fast and Easy!

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=48158&sessionID=E676246F4D0B470D8D88A568430F71CF

From this:

To this:

 

From this:

To this:

 

A little late here but oh well...

 

[Caliban 2]

@geekdestroyer

Your bumped brick texture looks inverted as the motar appears to be strongly highlighted now, as if its sticking out beyond the bricks.

[geekdestroyer 1]

well i bumped it strongly to shows you the difference, it can simply be changed

[geekdestroyer 1]