lol, matt... every the opportunity grabber, just kidding.

IMPRESSIVE...
MOST IMPRESSIVE...

It's getting better everytime I look in this thread.
I see plenty of usefull textures or usefull parts of textures already.

Cheers

Looks good, but the crate with the pipes under the X looks too flat and unrealistic.

Other than those... Ummm... way to make kick ass textures. Definitly going to hold you up on the idea of a tutorial on how to do this in the gimp.

Indeed very professional Following your progress in texture-creation is a pleasure!

Thank you again.

Matt: Absolutely. I plan to showcase such a demo level in sphere. Where else can I find such superb parallax mapping?

Towelie: If you ever see this texture with parallax mapping then it will get much more depth since it has a good height map. The previous pictures uses "only" a bump map.

And by the way: The tutorial is on the way.


Here come a few updates since every level needs some light:






And here comes some insides:
I often did some tutorials like this one:

But every tutorial that I find is made for Photoshop. So I often do them with the Photoshop license of my girl friend. After that I do it in "The Gimp".

And I can tell you that I could achieve everything in "The Gimp" as well and as a bonus: most functions and tools are more quickly available. In PS you have to go into several menus with a depth of 3 or 4 like "Edit/Transform/Rotate/Clockwise" or things like that.

In "The Gimp" it is often only a single click and an adjustment in the properties window. So I can assure you: When you really work every day on textures then it goes fast in "The Gimp".

To all the warez users: Don't do it! There is even better software available for free

Regards,
Frank

looking great!

Can't wait the tutorial

Frank_G :
A tutorial about that with Gimp could really interest me and lot of other people
i think.
To see the difference of working of a pro like you
compared with photoshop.

Anyway you could remake Quake 4 or Doom3 , or work for some big companies
your textures are really pro.

Hi,

I did 3 new textures again and will stopp now. I have 60 base textures with additional height, normal and specularity maps. Sometimes I even added another dirty color map. So this pack will include something about 250-300 textures.







I am writing a tutorial now for the beginners to show how to apply those kind of textures to game engines (especially for Gamestudio, since in Beyond Virtual or Lawmaker it is only a simple texture assignment).

I also will show examples for getting specularity maps into an alpha channel with "The GIMP".

So maybe the first ones can lay their hands on this pack even this week.

Best regards,
Frank

Your speed is comendable and your quality is spectacular, I think everyone will be able to gain from this contribution, thanks Frank.