Useful Texturing Tutorials - Links

[MaVCArt]

Hi guys!

this is a section of the texturing forum reserved for links to useful texturing tutorials, of which there are lots, for unfortunately there's a lot of cr*p out there too.
SO... you can post the most useful ones you've found here :)

oh, and please credit the artist/writer that wrote it.

I will also gather up any links you guys post here, so they're easily accessible :)

"top ten tips of texturing - Jeroen Maton" (http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4678)
"texturing tutorials" - philipK (http://www.philipk.net/tutorials.html)
"Hard surface texture painting" by Stefan Morell (http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/42-tutorial-hard-surface-texture-painting.html)
the polycount wiki! (http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials)
pixPlant (http://www.pixplant.com/index.php)
upsize your photo ref/ textures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccapU7bKRE)
kinda like this, but youtube user LkasArt. Photoshop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWNgpxM-R8)
the game-artist.net general modeling and texturing tutorial thread (http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/5643-big-tutorial-thread.html)
De-Constructing "Demon Throne" - A Postmortem / Tutorial Video Series by Jason Lavoie (http://www.vimeo.com/album/227064)

[sneakymcfox]

philipK's awesome texturing tutorials, a lot of other good tutorials on his site also
http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/materials.html

[midpoly]

thanks for creating a seprate forum for texturing only..... n this link has indeed the most famous n useful texturing tips by jeroen maton... will try to post some useful stuff here.

[midpoly]

and here is the gud one by "Stefan Morrell "
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/42-tutorial-hard-surface-texture-painting.html

[DivineRage]

Philip Klevestav cooked up some marvelous texturing tutorials for us;
http://www.philipk.net/tutorials.html

[jassi]

thanx for sharing maVCArt

[50p]

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/5643-big-tutorial-thread.html

[jezelf]

couple of tips for textures from photo ref..

If you like CrazyBump, check out pixPlant (http://www.pixplant.com/index.php) they are similar, CB is arguably better with the normal mapping, but PixPlant also helps tile and recreate textures - check out their videos

Also another little tip - if you ever need to upsize your photo ref/ textures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccapU7bKRE) not ideal, better to have those perfect source images, but handy if you need to lean on it.

the video above is shows recording the action and he starts with a 300dpi image. if your image is 72, then you can add that change to the action, but you'll need to turn off resample image first and change it, then turn it back on and do the rest.

also sharpening ref images with hi-pass - kinda like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWNgpxM-R8) - after resizing may help too.

[megalmn2000]

The Wiki of Polycount is a real treasure of ressource! :)
http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials

[sneakymcfox]

I'm sorry kirtalvin, but I can't seem to repeat that problem. All the links on this page that point to game artist are clean so far as I can tell, are you sure the link was the cause?