weapon texture creation question

Jessicka

Anyone seen any good tutorials for making good blacks and silvers for guns? I've searched all over google but nothing really great. One site had a good example but skipped key features/filters in photoshop. Thought someone would be kind enough to help me here. I'm looking for any detailed tutorials on this. I've been working on a mod for a year now alone, and I am down to the weapons (and maps) being textured and I've never been good at getting the texture right. There's certain qualities to the blacks and silvers like a grainy effect or something that no matter how hard I try, I just cannot seem to get it and it's killing me. I'd really like to share my mod and it's a great amount of work. I am just stuck on making the weapons blacks and silvers look convincing. Thanks.

Psyk0

Here's some great tutorials for metal textures:
http://st.burst.cc/tutorials.htm

Joao Sapiro

follow the quebie !

Jessicka

hey thanks some of those are really useful.

EarthQuake

you can post questions like this in 2d/3d btw, requests is more of a forum for people requesting others to make them things, and will largely get ignored. Also i would reccomend posting some of your work to get critiques and help you improve in pimping&previews.

Jessicka

my modeling is fine, I already have a few people wanting to pick up my work, just was a question about textures a -request- by dictionary definition. Sorry i violated the sacred forum rules.

Joseph Silverman

I have a feeling this thread is going to be about cats pretty soon.

EarthQuake

You didnt violate any rules, you were technically making a request. I was simply pointing out that this section of the boards is largely ignored because 49% the posts are "lol can u maek picacu modal?" and 49% are "come slave on my mod, i've got tons of ideas and no tallent!". Leaving a small amount of quality content here.

Regardless if you think your work is good, nobody is ever too good to improve. But i wont beg you to post your work. Have a nice day.

Jessicka

well yeah I always want to improve my work. Luckily I got picked up by a studio thanks to some help from an ex who taught me pretty much everything I know. I just needed help with gun texturing. The final piece not working. I got the help and thanks for that. I'm not allowed to show any of it at this point, you know how that goes. Uses Unreal 3 engine though

Slum

Well aren't you just the cat's meow.

Jarrod1937

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well yeah I always want to improve my work. Luckily I got picked up by a studio thanks to some help from an ex who taught me pretty much everything I know. I just needed help with gun texturing. The final piece not working. I got the help and thanks for that. I'm not allowed to show any of it at this point, you know how that goes. Uses Unreal 3 engine though

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edit: after rereading i think i may have misinterpreted the reply grealty... lol, my aplogises.