Environment Texturing

Topics about texturing levels and environments in games.

Environment Texturing Tutorials

• Environment Art Blog - by Richard 'pipes' Piper and Rogelio 'rogelio' Olguin, also see the Polycount Forum thread.
• An exercise in modular textures - Scifi lab UDK - by Tor 'Snefer' Frick, an exercise in extreme texture atlasing, packing multiple maps into the four channels of a texture file.
• Technical breakdown: Assassin's Creed II - by Piquet 'Froyok' Fabrice, a dissection of the textures used in Assassins Creed, with a great video showing texture reuse in-game.
• Using Decals for Destroyed Structures - from the CryENGINE Art Asset Creation Guide
• Material Tutorials - by Philip 'PhilipK' Klevestav
• Texture Workflow videos - by Hiten 'Mistry10' Mistry, from the Polycount thread Mistry's Texture Workflow w/Video
• Creating tiling textures in 3dsmax - by Chris 'cholden' Holden
• Thirding - Utilizing your texture space for environment work - by Ben 'poopinmymouth' Mathis
• Hard Surface Texture Painting - by Stefan Morrell
• Tutorial: Brick Arch (Baking Multiple Maps in 3dsmax) - by 'mikebart'
• Using vertex blending to grunge a level and add variety - by Mario 'StrangeFate' Vazquez
• Lighting in game environments - by Sjoerd 'hourences' De Jong
• Painting with Light - by the cinematographer John Alton.
• Modular Texture Optimization - by Sander 'Snader' te Hennepe

More Information

• Concept Fundamentals
• Category:EnvironmentModularity
• EnvironmentSculpting
• MultiTexture
• Category:TextureTechnique
• TexturingTutorials

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