okh
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Re: The best conditions for creating one's own textures
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It is hard to know what you want to achieve, but the topic of creating your own textures is so interesting and has so many aspects that it really deserves more elaboration. Because good textures can really make a great difference. If you look at the blog many of the topics touch on textures and light. See for instance the sunlight simulation and how to apply textures to a box.
If you look in the galleries, you will also find lots of examples of what users have managed to do.
I for one, prefer working with small textures and graphic files (both in SH3D and elsewhere, such as on websites). It makes everything faster and smoother. I prefer fast/small over perfect, but that is a personal sentiment. 
In this example:
- grass is based on a picture of a lawn to extract the primary colours, then these colours where distributed as (seamless) noise in a 256x256 image,
- the log walls are very simple gradients from a lighter to darker (shade and less fading below), with some noise to give depth. file 256 wide and 64 high, compressed to < 3 KB .jpg. The .jpg compression actually adds to the feeling of texture.
- mountain background is an actual 360 panorama from a site, scaled down to 2048 wide and 512 high, and saved as a pretty compressed 120KB .jpg. In SH3D it should start East if plan is oriented towards the North. In this case, you would get a better result with a higher resolution image, but that was not important for the illusion wanted. The sky, btw, was erased and replaced by a gradient light to dark blue.
In this example all textures are tiny. wood panels/floors, curtains, etc. Based on photos edited down with the gimp. The flames are also based on a picture from a fireplace and edited down, but here some transparency was added to let the red/yellow light-source shine through.
But also, don't underestimate finding textures online. For instance, I (well, my better half) wanted a particular wallpaper. On the manufacturer's site, there was actually a seamless picture of that wall paper which I scaled down, and then applied to the wall in correct proportions (beware of copyright). The same trick I use for paint (colours without textures). Use manufacturer information (find the RGB values - this site is helpful.
And then, of course, realism needs attention to the light-sources you use in your SH3D design.
Nope, none of the above will give you "perfect". But I still think it is amazing what you can actually do with simple tricks and very small graphic files.
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[Nov 26, 2014, 8:54:21 AM]
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And if you share your results, you might just get a tip or two... ok
