Realistic Textures - Need help.

Dyring

Hey guys.

As I'm totally new to the whole texturing, I'd like to hear if anyone has got any tutorials or even books. I'd love the person that could give me a good headstart. The problem i have at the moment is i can make a texture, but it seems lifeless as if i was just adding a plain colour to a material.

I've got access to Photoshop, 3ds max and Unity. In case someone has a guide which uses this software.

Thanks in Advance,
Dyring * Curious 3D Noob.

Alphavader

Google is a great programm, could try that.


Also the Polycount WIKI
3d Motive
Digital Tutors

Also find some Tips on the Vertex (free) - by Papercut..

Cheers

Dyring

Thank you! Never heard of Digital Tutors. Might give it a try.

iconoplast

There's one book that made everything sort of click for me when I was starting out with textures: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Texturing-Painting-Owen-Demers/dp/0735709181"]Digital Texturing and Painting[/ame]. You can see a preview of the first chapter: [ame]http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/8409/8610911/GD275_Ch01.pdf[/ame] (for some reason the forum is refusing to acknowledge that as a link in any way, sorry). It's not specific to tech or software, so there's no worries about it being out of date at any point. But if you're new and your textures seem lifeless, that's really the best place to start.

Donkey_Kong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJ33FqZGbQ

That is a decent start off. Although it uses Maya instead of Max. Texturing can be tricky to start off with. With texturing you have to find a decent workflow for making different materials like metal or wood. You might benefit if you can use a sculpting package to give you detailed AO, normal and cavity maps. They really help. Also maybe you could download UDK 3, it's free and textures look a lot better in it.