How to make good Textures?

Dinoman

Hi Polycount People

My Question is: How i can make some good/realistic Textues for CryEnigne 2/3.

I#Ve heard something about "Complete Map Rednering in 3ds MAX", but not enough to know what that means.
I know that i need some Textures from cgtextues or which page. But look at my Texture, realy depressing
I hope you can Help me:)

Mark Dygert

Complete map? You can do that using Render to Texture but rarely do you want to do that because it bakes in the 3dsmax scene lighting. Even if you don't have lights in your scene there is always one behind the viewport camera by default (so you can see objects in the scene).

Complete maps really aren't useful for much. Normally you render, diffuse, spec, normal and Ambient Occlusion which are all separate and you want them that way so the engine can properly interact with the materials.

Also a big part of the realism you see in Crytek comes from the lighting, the shaders and the real time rendering that happens in the engine.

Dinoman

Ahhh ok
Then forget the Thing with Complete Map

But the Question is the same. How i make good Textures? Any tutorials here?

passerby

your question is too vague to get a good answer

Ghostscape

I use photoshop to make good textures.

I use the polycount wiki to read tutorials.
http://wiki.polycount.com/

gsokol

Yup, super vague question.

Don't just slap cg textures images on to objects, that is a step in the wrong direction. To make an object believable, you have to add wear and use in areas that make sense for the object. Consider how it would have been used and worn in its natural environment.

To make things look realistic in a current gen engine...just a texture isn't good enough...you need to think about materials. You need to have a good normal map, and an understanding of how specular maps work too.

Also..your image is super small...can't give specific advice for your object as I can't really see it.

Dinoman

Ok here is the Image again.

I make a normal UVW Map in 3ds MAX than put it in Photoshop and work with this. But it looks like shit. I use some textues from cg textues and Multiply Layers in Photoshop. The Resolution is 512x512.
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=durchfall75jvs.png

Jessica Dinh

Try starting a project in Pimping and Previews, and embed big images into your thread - not tiny images, and not links haha. You will probably get more crits there, as that what that forum is for.

You could always look at the textures of artwork you admire, try to study their maps and see what is working for them. And just research in general!

Some sites you can start with:

http://www.manufato.com/?p=902http://www.manufato.com/?p=902

http://www.philipk.net/tutorials.htmlhttp://www.philipk.net/tutorials.html

Dinoman

Ok thanks