I am looking for some textures to use on my ships, but I can't find any! Saberstudios is down, and I applied for Texture Vault a month ago and still have no reply. What are some good places to get textures?
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Take Photoshop, and use the airbrush, paint brush, smudge, and several other tools in conjunction with various colors. The textures will come from your mind.... ooohhhhhh....... Just kidding, but seriously, the best way to get the precise textures that you want is to make them yourself. Other than that, I would take a camera, and walk around town, trying to find real-world textures. You can find them in the oddest places sometimes.
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Yeah...that's what everyone keeps telling me, but how do you do it in Bryce???
Can you make textures from images in some other way that to just use the "image texture" thingy? I need good textures, but Bryce is hard to make textures in...
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Might as well stop you right there, the best thig I've got is photodeluxe business edition 1.0, and that doesn't much of the stuff you posted :frown:
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Ready-made textures rarely present themselves. Some flavor of Photoshop is almost required (in my mind anyway) for mixing and matching of textures and modifying them to suit your needs.
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I have a copy of the photoshop 7.0 beta version, and I can send it to you if you contact me over AIM sometime (my name on AIM is NemesisSO)or you can simply search for it on Limewire or hotline
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(oh, and I can mail you the textures I used on my latest 3D model, the Havoc fighter remake... check the gallery and see if you like it)
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This is what I will use (maybe) I just found it.
Go to (url="http://"http://www.google.com")google.com(/url), click on 'Images', then type in 'Metal Texture' then hit the search button. This was the best one I found.
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I just threw this one together for you. Please accept it as an apology for the SS texture depot being off-line. 
(url="http://"http://tmgmedia.net/jpayne/MetalTextures.sit")Download (182k)(/url)
Anyone's welcome to use it. Comes in .pic format, and with 300x300 and 600x600 pixel versions.
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Arghh! (remembers Bari is a PC user) 
Here's the same file in (url="http://"http://tmgmedia.net/jpayne/MetalTextures.zip").zip format (207k)(/url).
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I've been needing a sort of "brushed metal" texture, but I can't figure out how to make one in Photoshop. Could anyone give me any hints (pokes Skyblade), or does someone know where to find such a texture on the web?
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Originally posted by Platypus Man:
**Ready-made textures rarely present themselves. Some flavor of Photoshop is almost required (in my mind anyway) for mixing and matching of textures and modifying them to suit your needs.
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Try Gimp. I think (I'm not sure) that there's a mac version. Someone wanna check that? Anyway, it has a lot of the capabilities (maybe all) that Photoshop has, and it's free.
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Originally posted by what_is_the_matrix:
**Try Gimp. I think (I'm not sure) that there's a mac version.
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Oops. Forgot you're a PC user.
There's also a PC version probably. I think. I vaguely remember my SoftImage teacher mentioning that it's for practically every system out there (like POVRay). We use Irix (Unix) at school, but I remember him suggesting that everyone get it.
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Originally posted by Cafall:
**I've been needing a sort of "brushed metal" texture, but I can't figure out how to make one in Photoshop. Could anyone give me any hints (pokes Skyblade), or does someone know where to find such a texture on the web?
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From the PhotoShop4.0 "Wow" Book: fill a rectangle with 50% gray. Add Noise; monochromatic gaussian noise is best. Use Blur Filter; motion blur set to horizontal. That gives you the basic "brushed" look. Now select a smaller rectangle and clip it out.
I'd suggest doing this as a layer over a light difference clouds splotching, and using the "brushed" texture as a bump map.
BTW, you can indeed make a textured object, render it, then bring the render back as a picture texture. Might be a good way to build up a dense "Star Wars" texture on a surface without the memory overhead. Esp if you use it as a bump map.
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
**I am looking for some textures to use on my ships, but I can't find any! Saberstudios is down, and I applied for Texture Vault a month ago and still have no reply. What are some good places to get textures?
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Eh? That's odd! I hopped on over to the boards because I've had an unusally high number of new members this month (2) - I never got your email though. Send it again and I'll be happy to get you going!
-david-
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