[J Bradford]

Looking for some good websites with nice textures. Mainly stone, brick, gravel, sand and gothic. Thanks in advance!

[waylon]

If you haven't seen turbosquid, check it out. www.turbosquid.com
It's like napster, but for art resources.

Another site I've found useful is this: http://art.net/~jeremy/
(check out his "public textures" section.)

The best way to get textures, however, is to get a digital camera and make your own. It's just SO much easier to get EXACTLY what you want. Unfortunately, cameras cost money.

[TylerHunter]

Oh the wonderful world of texture making, try 3DCafe, use a digital camera, bust out some photoshop, and tweak em up, cool trick, take a texture, turn it grayscale, use color curves to heighten the contrast and customize particular areas of your choice or dullen, and save that as a bumpmap. Same for specular, opacity and more, here is a really neet trick, to make a texture tileable, select,copy,paste 4 sections
__ __
|1|2|
-----
|3|4|
-----

move em around so they are in this order
43
21

select all 4 layers at once, blend the edges, preferably with the stamp tool,
rest them to
12
34
colapse and BOOM!!!
tileable

Tyler

[Jezebel]

TylerHunter - An easier way to do the trick you mentioned is to utilize the "offset" tool provided with Photoshop.

Go to: Filter -> Other -> Offset. Have the "wrap around" feature selected and for the width and height values enter exactly half of your current width/height. For example if you have a texture that is 512x512, you'll want to offset it by 256,256.



Beth

[ May 12, 2001: Message edited by: Jezebel ]