Conker BFD re-textured!

[Aaron Anderson]

Hi, i'm making steady progress on a texture project for Conker BFD, here's a load of screenshots if you wanna see it. Link to screenshots:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MWCZE3Y0

Also I've uploaded my pack, still incomplete singleplayer but literally all the multiplayer side is in hi-res.
Link to Texture pack:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MOUYVIHY

[Gecko Lee]

*downloading*

[cerebus5]

Can you post some screenies pls?

[Aaron Anderson]

ermm, how do I insert pics?

Okay here's some pics

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/606/conkerbfd53.png
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7799/conkerbfd0.png
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8071/conkerbfd1.png
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2237/conkerbfd2.png
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8877/conkerbfd3.png
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6372/conkerbfd4.png
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9544/conkerbfd5.png
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1232/conkerbfd6.png
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9320/conkerbfd8k.png

[Xenobond]

My eyes!!! So much photo filters. Especially with the plastic wrap, sheesh.

[mode7]

I'm afraid he's right - these textures are not hires, they are just filtered.
Take the wood for example - wood is not shiny.

[cerebus5]

Looks ok but needs a lot of work I'd say. Don't be discouraged though.

BTW I came across a Mexican forum where somebody had retextured Conkers. I didn't pick it up though for some reason.

[Aaron Anderson]

Ok! I'm gonna restart and actually put in some hard time, I knew of course that everyone would be like OMG filters!
Do some research into ways to do this, come back next year and see what people think :)

[cerebus5]

Just ask a lot of advice and take a ton of tutorials. I think you're starting off a bit too ambitious. Try taking smaller textures and working on them. Look how long Gitech takes to do a single texture - sometimes two hours. And he's been at it for years.

[mode7]

Aaron,
if you like to get into this you'll get all support you can get here. Just post some WIP and we'll give you some advice.

You might want to check out the
Community Tutorial thread (http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=46816)

And I also did a video Tutorial at http://n64redux.com

[Aaron Anderson]

Thankyou so much for the support, and there's nothing wrong with being ambitious and aiming high, is there?

[mode7]

of course not, but keep in mind, you wont be able to do the whole game on your own - this is unrealistic. Think about it: A TEAM of PROFESSIONAL artists worked on that game for MONTHS and for 8 HOURS or more a day. If you are aiming for the whole game - you'll probably need soem support.

[Aaron Anderson]

I understand.
Before I run i will crawl, I will learn how to make the textures look beautiful and develop graphic techniques.
I will then present some small peices to the audience, and maybe if people like it there will be some consideration into undertaking a bigger task.
It's not that I'm refusing help, I welcome any advice or tips, but I wouldn't want to withdraw other designer's time from their own projects because that would just be unfair.

Whoa, did I just write that? Seriously...
So yeah that's my plan.

[Aaron Anderson]

I don't know if there's a true answer to this or not but which type of image is better to work with, PNG or Bitmap?

[mode7]

png definitly!

[Aaron Anderson]

Just to announce I'm no longer in the texturizing scene, I was doing some textures (they where atually Hi-res) and I decided that I wasn't doing this for anything other than the love I have for Conker.

[cerebus5]

well, the XBOX version is pretty much a retextured conkers anyway :D

[ReplayTy]

n2m X360 Banjo Kazooie

[cerebus5]

Replay I have no words for how badly I want to play a retextured Starfox HD :D :D IMO maybe the most underappreciated game of the n64/psx/saturn era. Except for Edge Mag, they give it due props.

[Aaron Anderson]

Well I to am a big Starfox fan and consider both Lylat wars and original on SNES to be the best, though maybe the Starfox adventures one but the flying parts were abysmal.
So maybe i'll reconsider but don't hold your breath.