******* Retexturing

[Kazangwa]

I'm not currently working on a pack, but I have been recently learning how to make extremely detailed textures. I only have four examples right now, but I have very useful resources where I can learn to make more. If you guys like them, I could dump the textures of a game and see what I can do. Hope you like em'! Cheers :beer:

Rock

Rust

Water

Wood Grain

 

[M[u]ddy]

Thees do really look great.
It would be very interesting how such things would look ingame.

 

[Kazangwa]

Thanks!

Here are some more textures that I did yesterday.

Fire1

Fire2

Glass//Ice

Grass

Hope you like them!

 

[mudlord]

Wow! I love the ice textures!

What sort of refraction did you use on them? Looks like you used a bit of specular lighting, but I'm not 100% sure....

 

[Kazangwa]

No lighting effects were used actually, the Filter>>Distort>>Glass has a lot of options. When you change the distortion to a value of 2, the glass effect becomes quite coherent, and if you change the pattern to blocks, it looks unbelievable. I was really happy with the result also

 

[mudlord]

Oh okay , thanks for explaining..

 

[Aurelian]

i liked everything except the grass texture

 

[ScottJC]

With the ******* I was expecting some rant about retexturing, dunno why, but it sounded like f***ing retexturing in my head... Nice ice textures.

 

[Terranigma]

With the ******* I was expecting some rant about retexturing, dunno why, but it sounded like f***ing retexturing in my head... Nice ice textures.

LOL, I was thinking the samething myself when I saw the title.

Very nice textures though.

 

[Kazangwa]

i liked everything except the grass texture

Yeah, I don't like it either. I think i'm going to find a new way to make that one.


BY THE WAY! For everyone to know, I have started to retexture Conker's Bad Fur Day, but I haven't gotten very far into it, and I don't know how much I will be able to do. I'm hoping that I could have some support from you guys, and maybe if you're feeling generous, some actual help on making and replacing textures. Thanks for all your support so far!

How's this grass texture?

 

[Aurelian]

Better, I think....maybe I'm just too picky, but I still don't like it

 

[Kazangwa]

Yeah. I'm having trouble finding a good way to make it.

 

[Cabbage]

You're...amazing.

 

[macphisto]

I don't mean to sound annoying or anything, but out of all those textures, only one is really tileable, and that's the rust texture. If the ice one is cut into even sqaures, that too could be tiled. I like he rock and rust one the most. When you're making these textures, be sure they have an even tone and pattern throughout, especially around the corners and edges. Uneven tones there make them look like seperate squares in-game.

 

[Im Bored]

Yeah. I'm having trouble finding a good way to make it.

I always found the easiest way for good results was to pre-render some grass on top of a plane. The best thing to do was to render the grass from above too, given that youve got to assume a viewpoint with these games.
Normally just create the ground texture, like, soil or something (grass has to go somewhere) then render the grass layer and stick the two layers together, and carry on rendering more grass of a different shade and length, to give it all more depth.

I normally just used Blender with the fiber script running but I know other 3D programs have hair and fiber shaders built in.

Edit: by the easiest way, I do of course just mean the method I found best. I know some people can actually paint grassy planes and so on, but im not so good with that...

But yeah, constant tone (for textures that are known to repeat) is preferable and maybe if they were made to repeat seamlessly? Thats almost half the fun i always found!

 

[Kazangwa]

I don't mean to sound annoying or anything, but out of all those textures, only one is really tileable, and that's the rust texture. If the ice one is cut into even sqaures, that too could be tiled. I like he rock and rust one the most. When you're making these textures, be sure they have an even tone and pattern throughout, especially around the corners and edges. Uneven tones there make them look like seperate squares in-game.

Thanks for the input. This is really my first try at a texture project, and I haven't had much experience. It's good to have input from a great texturer though!

 

[the_Jesta]

Yeah, I don't like it either. I think i'm going to find a new way to make that one.


BY THE WAY! For everyone to know, I have started to retexture Conker's Bad Fur Day, but I haven't gotten very far into it, and I don't know how much I will be able to do. I'm hoping that I could have some support from you guys, and maybe if you're feeling generous, some actual help on making and replacing textures. Thanks for all your support so far!

How's this grass texture?

I would add maybe a 0.2 pixel Gaussian blur to the texture, or possibly 90 degree motion blur across one pixel. The edges are just too harsh. You might even try the liquify filter to add some different directions to the blades.

 

[Kazangwa]

Alright, thanks.

By the way, I've been redoing some of the textures in Bad Fur Day. Not changing them necessarily, but simply distorting them with the built in cutout function in photoshop. It gives them sort of a simple look, making them look good. They looked incredible back when BFD was released, but now, they look almost like they tried hard to make it looks good with some parts still muddy. With everything a little flatter, this pack makes it look like Conker is actually drunk throughout the game. Once I finish I'll release it.

 

[MuhMuh]

I like your textures, but their not seamless, so they can't be used for retexturing.

 

[Kazangwa]

The rust and rock are, but yeah, I need to work on them. Most are just simply artsy fartsy pictures lol.:bouncy: