The PSD thread, share your PSDs!

gibson543 · Jul 2010

Hey everyone, I'm really still a novice at art and game art, and I know many other people on these boards are as well, and so I thought I would make this thread so that more seasoned polycount artists could help out the newbies and maybe even give some tips to some other artists.

The point of this thread is for you guys to share a PSD file. Any PSD file, it can be from a past personal project perhaps, an SDK texture, whatever. It can be anything from environments, props and characters.

So basically you would post the PSD file and what its from, and thats it really, watch people give thank yous and such.

Thanks Everyone

Tom Ellis · Jul 2010

I'm guessing there may be some problems with sharing textures that are from paid texture packs etc.

gibson543 · Jul 2010

well yes I would assume so if its from a pack you bought

Eric Chadwick · Jul 2010

Heheh.
http://freepsdfiles.com/

Seriously though I think actual tutorials would probably be more helpful.
http://wiki.polycount.com/2DTutorials

MatthewS · Jul 2010

I think he wants your completed textures sheets... I think it is always interesting to look at other's PSD files... I will upload one of mine a lil later. But I'm not exactly an industry professional.

edit: http://www.filefront.com/17162229/Texture4-

maze · Jul 2010

I am not sure if this is a good idea.

Wahlgren · Jul 2010

maze? why? because someone is gonna use your textures for awesome moneymaking schemes?

I mean, what could he possibly do with your psds

Make a model for your texture?

[HP] · Jul 2010

This is an old texture that I worked a while back.
.PSD, .Max with HP, LP (Plane), bake already set up, bla bla, everyhing is in there.

This is the source files for my entry on speed texturing competition at game-artist.net
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/speed-texturing-competition-archives/10170-stc-43-june-14-june-21-exterior-wall-9.html#post95965

there's everything in there, .MAX with the original high poly, the low poly (just a plane :P)
and I've also included the original PSD files for all the maps. I've resized them to 1024*1024 tho,
as the originals were 2048*2048, they got to big to pack it into a RAR file.

I used xnormal to bake my original piece, but if you select the plane on the .MAX file It's already set up
to render using Max's baker.

You'll need XOLIUL viewport shader to properly view this in Max's viewport, I've placed it on the RAR as well,
just in case. (Although, you wont have parallax mapping on it, that's why I used marmoset to submit my final pic)

This is it, keep in mind of course, that I'm sharing this solo for your learning!
I'm all for freedom of information and transparency, so I hope I encourage others to do the same
and share their workflows!

Be nice!

Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/249054816/HP_STC_wall.rar

PS. .MAX will only work in 3DsMax2010.

maze · Jul 2010

It wasn't meant to be offensive Walhgren, in fact I enjoy sharing any time I can, and I mean it. I think you went a bit far, I was just saying that because I think (and that is my humble opinion) is more constructive to share tricks&tips about texturing process, and let you explore doing your own psds, rather than giving a psd and let you figure out. And if you read again, I said "I am not sure" not "I think it is a bad idea". I should ve put that in my previous post. In any case, have a good day man.

Wahlgren · Jul 2010

Nah don't worry. I didn't take it that way either. It's just that every now and then you see people that watermark or stamp their textures with a bunch of logos like someone is gonna steal them. That's what i thought you were hinting at.

But i do think it could be a neat idea to see peoples psd's though. See what kind of masks they use and how they do certain things (deeper technical stuff).

gibson543 · Jul 2010

Thanks for the comments guys

eric - I know how tuts might be a better, but still I've learned quite a bit by looking through people's psds and hopefully some other people can learn as well

maze - I know how you might think this could be a bad idea and not as helpful, but I mean you can still learn from psds, looking at other people's texturing workflow is a great way to add to your own.

Matthew - That is exactly the kindof thing I'm looking for thank you for sharing

HP - that os awesome thanks for sharing man

I think that to improve the helpful factor I think possibly when you post the psd you can give a quick rundown of your process for that texture, or course you don't have to, but that would make it a little bit more helpful to some people

Thanks again everyone

divi · Jul 2010

Wahlgren wrote: »

maze? why? because someone is gonna use your textures for awesome moneymaking schemes?

I mean, what could he possibly do with your psds

Make a model for your texture?

someone did just that with this model

http://www.martinh.se/hk416.html

and sold it on turbosquid.

Calabi · Jul 2010

I think its kind of a good idea.

You can reverse engineer, see how they set and laid it out. What is really required.

danshewan · Jul 2010

You should check out Hiten's .psd files and watch his texturing breakdown video at the same time - awesome stuff.

http://vimeo.com/mistry

Zwebbie · Jul 2010

Haven't got anything of my own to add, but Ben Mathis/Poopinmymouth has some of his models with .psd for download on his website.

gibson543 · Aug 2010

Wow great links both of you guys thanks! This thread is turning out just the way I wanted it to

gibson543 · Aug 2010

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69806&highlight=goblin+sdk&page=4 alright this psd is not mine, but vrav posted a very cool PSD in the goblin SDK thread, its the last post on the page

-Will

hawken · Aug 2010

I'm gonna get rich off this thread, start posting your damn PSD's already, I have customers waiting and I'm a busy man OK!

The PSD thread, share your PSDs!

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