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[MrAngryFace]

Big project due on wednesday, need textures! Stat!

 

[Vark]

What sort of textures do you need? I can point you to more than a few.

 

[sc0la]

These textures are hot.

 

[MrAngryFace]

anything in general would help. I still need to decide what im going to be doing but I wanna burn some to cd since I cant get online at home over the weekend.

 

[RiZ III]

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/textures.asp
hope those help

 

[MrAngryFace]

anything helps, even those 'hot' textures

 

[TAJ]

Buy a camera. Nothing beats sampling reality, and you can get exactly what you want.
When it comes to lighting for texture map photos, the flatter the better. Overcast days are ideal.

 

[TAJ]

Oh, and when it comes to lighting a 3D scene, a camera and a two-inch chrome ball bearing are your best friends. (assuming your renderer supports global illumination)

 

[Vark]

eh, HDRshop and a premade lightprobe is a lot less of a hassle and infinitely better looking.

 

[TAJ]

>>>eh, HDRshop and a premade lightprobe is a lot less of a hassle and infinitely better looking.<<<

???? All the pre-made lightprobes I've seen used the same ball bearing that you can buy yourself for less than $20. And OF COURSE you use HDRshop. But to have an image sequence to feed HDRshop, you need a camera and tripod...

 

[Vark]

a true lightprobe is a hell of a lot more than a 2 " ball bearing. You need a larger mirrored ball for accurate sampling. Plus you have to photograph it from at least two different angles to minimize the distortion of the far corners of the sphere. I had some friends who created their own lightprobe for an animation they were doing and it isn't easy to get a good one.

Here's what all is actually involved:

http://www.debevec.org/HDRShop/tutorial/tutorial5.html