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Category: Texturing

Texture types for game assets

• ["Ambient Occlusion Map"]
• ["BRDF Map"]
• ["Clip Map"]
• ["Cube Map"]
• ["Detail Map"]
• ["Diffuse Map"]
• ["Diffusely Convolved Cube Map"]
• ["Emissive Map"]
• ["Height Map"]
• ["Light Map"]
• ["Mip Map"]
• ["Normal Map"]
• ["Opacity Map"]
• ["Parallax Map"]
• ["Specular Color Map"]
• ["Specular Power Map"]
• ["Spherical Environment Map"]
• ["Vertex Color"]

Also see Leigh Van Der Byl's PDF overview of mapping types.

Game texture formats

• 3Dc = AMD compressed normal map format.
• ["DDS"] = Microsoft Direct Draw Surface formats.
• ["PVR"] = Imagination Technologies' PowerVR formats.

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Texture Tutorials

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Texture Techniques & Tips

• Photoshop CS4 3D Painting
• Better sharpening in Photoshop using High Pass and Smart Sharpen
• ["Painting Across Seams"]: solutions for fixing seams when 2D textures are used with 3D models.

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Handpainted Textures

• PSG Art Tutorial - by Arne Niklas Jansson
• Hand painting wood - by Tracy "TmHunt" Hunt
• Wood timelapse GIF - by Eric Chadwick
• Team Fortress 2 - Contribute! - by Valve Corporation
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