Great suggestion. Also, I wouldn't start working on my diffuse map without having my AO and Normal map in place first, but that's just me. I feel it serves as a good guideline for where to define things in your diffuse texture. Working from Diffuse first, then going to AO and Normals seems backwards, save for other…
thank you all for your replies! madcow, I will try that technique again. I have tried it before with a different tile pattern, but it didn't really work out. But maybe I have more ideas on what to do now. tristamus and passerby, yes, I will try something like ndo. However, my main problem so far is to create a decent…