Blurry Textures?

tonyd927

Not sure what Im doing wrong, but no matter how much I've been practicing texturing lately, I am unable to achieve the precise detail that most of the artists on Polycount have with their textures.

Mine always look really blurry when zoomed in. When I sharpen the textures in photoshop, it just adds noise. Which isnt the effect Im going for.


For example:
How do I retain the sharpness of the paint chips and the grain of wood?
this is a 2048 map.

Timidy

Most of the pics you see here are from a distance. Whenever you zoom in there is going to be blurriness unless the texture size is really large. But I think some developers use mip maps (different texture sizes that load up in the game engine depending on player's POV proximity/distance)

cryrid

Might be Max too. Try http://marsashton.blogspot.ca/2010/08/for-students-full-resolution-textures.html

Shrike

You cannot simply take a 1000X photograph / texture thing, resize it to 2048x2048 and then expect a sharp texture. Your original bitmap needs to be in the resolution you want to use it. Simply upscaling it in photoshop will just make it blurry

tonyd927

Shrike wrote: »

You cannot simply take a 1000X photograph / texture thing, resize it to 2048x2048 and then expect a sharp texture. Your original bitmap needs to be in the resolution you want to use it. Simply upscaling it in photoshop will just make it blurry

I actually downscaled the image used. It made it worse..

lukepham101

Are you displaying that stuff in the 3ds Max viewport? Theres a thing that always puts people off in that the toggle to Show Shaded Material in Viewport you've gotta hold it down and get it to Show Realistic Material in Viewport and it'll display it at the actual rez it'll render at.

Timidy

It's also relative to how large or small your UV clusters are but I'm guessing you already nkow that.

tonyd927

Took your advice, here's what I have so far.

What do you guys think?

Timidy

I think it looks really good and crisp. From here I'd say it really does look 2k.