Hello is there any good site , free or not where I can find good plants textures sources? I dont mean the alpha contourns of the silouhettes of a plant but actual images of leaves , flowers , trunks etc to take and work in ps to apply on a 3d model....
:poly121:
Replies
THE place for textures, plants included.
http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/greenwebNew/news/newStart.htm
or paint your own.
there really aren't that great of foliage source images available.
I tend to paint a leaf, and then use that to build up a high poly branch with lots of leaves, then render that back down to usable cards.
As for free I believe cg-textures is the best you can get for free. You could google
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enDE291DE338&sourceid=chrome&q=plant%20foliage%20alpha%20texture&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
stuff and see if there are some specific sources available (I once found some blender related tree textures with alphas).
What I usually do when I need to make a specific plant or tree is to search for it's scientific name through wikipedia or some other site then do a image search for that.
There are quite a few botanical image databases out there, though most of them don't offer images that you could use on a commercial project. The images you can get from those sites are good for reference material for painting or modeling highpoly plants.
Here are some of the ones I have bookmarked, some are better than others.
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/galleriesandresources.htm
http://www.rain-tree.com/plantimages.htm
http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/Faculty/nickrent/BotImages.html
http://pages.unibas.ch/botimage/
http://images.botany.org/
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/
I'm so sad