Revision as of 10:46, 24 August 2010

Texturing Tutorials

Tutorials for creating textures to be used in games.

Painting Realistic Textures

• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut racer445metal.png<
  >How to Hand Paint Convincing Metal Textures by "racer445" (more tutorials)<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut hardsurfacetexturepainting.png<
  >Hard Surface Texture Painting by Stefan Morrell<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut quake4painting.png<
  >Painting Your Diffuse, Specular, and Height Maps (for Quake 4) by Raven Software<
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Painting Stylistic Textures

• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut smoothblending.png<
  >Some Thoughts on Smooth Blending - by Linda 'Enayla' Bergkvist<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut paintfletcher.png<
  >'Hand Painted' Step by step thing of some sort - by John "JFletcher" Fletcher<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut texturepaintingtips.png<
  >Texture Painting Tips - by Michael Dashow<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut singhsoilchild.png<
  >SoilChild Texture Tutorial by Josh Singh<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut tmhuntwoodtute.png<
  >Wood Tute by Tracy Marvin "Rhinokey" Hunt<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut sallenbachhardlight.png<
  >Painting in Hard Light Mode - by Jason "HorribleDeath" Sallenbach<
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• File:TexturingTutorials$2dtut tsugumopixelart.png<
  >So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? - by Tsugumo<
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More Information

• = Texturing techniques commonly used in game development.
• = The basics of concept drawing and painting.
• Painting Tutorials thread on the Polycount forum = Links to more painting tutorials.
• = Reference imagery: photos, concept art, texture sites, etc.