Category Environment Texturing

Topics about texturing levels and environments in games.

Pages in this category:

Environment Texturing Tutorials

• 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
• UDN UnrealEngine2 Vertex Blending Tutorial - by Epic Games
• Using vertex blending to grunge a level and add variety - by Mario "StrangeFate" Vazquez
• UE3 Terrain Tutorial - by Sjoerd "hourences" De Jong
• Lighting in game environments - by Sjoerd "hourences" De Jong
• Painting with Light - by the cinematographer John Alton.

Environment Skies

• CG Textures - Panoramic Skies free 360-degree sky photos.
• 360 HDR skies for sale? from the Polycount forums has a tutorial and links about photographing HDR skies.
• How to: Create a Terragen 2 Skybox by Outpt.
• 3dmotive.com - Creating a Skydome is a tutorial for converting a latlong sky into a spheremap layout and mapping it to a dome mesh with Photoshop and 3ds Max.
• Skymap workflow by divi is a quick tutorial about converting a latlong sky into a square dome-like layout that uses all the texture space. PDF here
• How to: Convert a Skybox to a Skydome by Outpt is an in-depth tutorial about converting a cubemap into a latlong image with CubeMapGen, HDRShop, Photoshop, and Unreal.
• Vue is a popular skydome creation tool.
• Terragen is another popular skydome creation tool.
• Template:Http://boards.polycount.net/images/smilies/pcount/icons/icon arrow.gif The Cube Map wiki section describes how to create and use cube maps.