Texture painting Tutorial [Archive]

Joeythedolphin

02-14-2008, 11:25 PM

Hey!

Some additional tutorials. These were originally posted on Polycount forum. I'm going to quote them here.

Pretty good library of metal creation tutorials, mostly centered around gun metal.
http://st.burst.cc/tutorials.htm

Great digital painting tutorials, full of tips and tricks. These will help you to hone your painting skills, which I think are VERY important in texture creation. It's always good when you can just paint what you need instead of having to search or magical images that "work the best this time".
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials

Some pretty heavy bathroom reading... Mostly painting theory, but very practical info for games.
http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

I've found that sometimes starting with a max material, rendering that to texture, then painting on it can help get the ball rolling. Over time I've built up a library of Max Materials, concrete, various types of wood, metal, dirt, rocks ect.

Also check out Filter Forge, some really amazing filters, and before you poo-poo the filter route go check it out. Being able to crack other peoples filters open and make your own to suit your needs takes things to a new level. You don't have to worry about learning a foreign script or convoluted code, when you make filters you use a nice user interface.
http://www.filterforge.com/

An ancient HarlequiN tut, but might give you some ideas.
http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/t ... tals.shtml (http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/tutorials/metals.shtml)

A newer one on CGTalk by Stefan-Morrell that goes into more detail.
Tutorial:Hard Surface Texture Painting

You might get some ideas from these brushes.
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/ ... p?id=27688 (http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27688)

More brush sets from the same guy.
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/ ... =downloads (http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/listarticle.jsp?type=downloads)

By the way this is Panupat.