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Category: Texturing

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Texture Types for Game Assets

• Texturing for Dummies - by Leigh Van Der Byl
  A PDF overview of texture types.

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Misc. Painting Tips

• ["Edge Padding"]
  How to avoid ["Mip Map"] seams by spreading the colors out from each UV shell.
• ["Painting Across Seams"]
  How to fix texture seams on 3D models.
• Better Sharpening in Photoshop - by Ben "poopinmymouth" Mathis
  Using High Pass and Smart Sharpen.
• Taking Better Photos for Textures - by Jordan Walker
  Using a flash rig and polarization filters to avoid most specular highlights and directional lighting.
• ["2D Tutorials"] has more texturing and painting tips.

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Game texture formats

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