TEXTURE UNIVERSE!!!!!!! Feedback please

CRAP...I HATE IT WHEN I HIT ENTER BY MISTAKE!

DS-

thanks again man. i have the basic entryway done and the outlay of the courtyard (of my atlantis b4 it sunk amp), and let me tell you...it's huge...and it FLIES. I threw in 14 bots last night and there was NO slowdown...of course, the hard part is yet to come.

and even though unreal ed kept crashing (i designed a few nice looking if-i-do-say-so-myself columns and i imported like a dozen of em b4 i realized that i hadn't deintersected one properly and it caused a glitch and the system locked (man i really need 256 MB)...and of course my dumb *** was too excited to save as i was doing all this...so i lost like an hour, BUT, it only took like 15 minutes for recovery...so all was not lost, i made some good progress.

question for you das, and this is b/c i am MAC ignorant...will you be able to play these custom levels? i mean, that would SUCK if you couldn't.

anyways, a buddy gave me 3D Studio Max for my b-day, it should arrive today or tomorrow, and I found some intersting meshes on the web for statuary, so I may give that a shot soon to add decor (yeah...i know its like $3000 but the guy makes 200 G's a year as a Solaris Engineer)...

my only request is that you PLEASE don't forget about the gold texture. that will be the finishing touch. i plan on making the temple borders and fountain and a few of the entrance pillars in gold...

i appreciate it!

scott-

tell ya what...

the basic idea of what i am doing is coming from a pic i have that was Platos' idea of what Atlantis looked like...i am loosely mapping from that source with my own changes of course, but this will give you a basic layout...

howzabout i scan it and let you take a look? i'll scan it tonight and send it from work tomorrow. do you have photoshop or paint shop pro? i'll just save it as a jpeg anyways so it shouldn't matter...

Hiya Das!

I've had this thought for a while where texture-sites are concerned. Being a pro texture-artist myself, it's kindof tricky to figure out how to distribute textures, expecially sincle the "simplest" looking (i.e. 4 directional infinite tiling (like grass)) textures are really the ones that can take hours and hours.

What I might suggest is having some freebies, maybe stuff that's already out there, maybe just photos and such that people can take and make into their own textures, then have a catalogue that people can choose from. Someone pays 10-20$, then they get to pick, say, 10 texture sets of 10 textures each. These could then be downloaded by the buyer or burned to cd and sent to them.

Actually paying for most of the commerical texture cd's can suck because they usualy have 1000's of "tileable" textures on them and about half of them are repeats, bad photos, or the same image over and over just with the color balance tweaked or with a Photoshop filter or two applied.

I'd happily pay 20$ for a cd of, say 100 or so textures, provided I got to pick which ones I got.

Just my two cents...

-I

Thanks, and I won't tell much about the project yet, 'cause I still don't know, if it works. But, when I got UT (this week) I will import my map (wich is made whit Ued1) to Ued2, and I think it will be CTF, or Assault. There are not so many Assault maps, and 1 more is not bad.

I'm no mapper, but want to be. And that would be VERY helpful.


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Das, you sent me those textures. Yes, I did got them. The problem is this: My Hotmail account supports only 2mb free space for mails. Your textures are way over 2mb. Grrr... Thats why Hotmails server upkeeper deleted those files. So here is solution. Send those textures to my mothers e-mail: tuula.maenpaa@dlc.fi It supports more space, than mine. Oh... those textures looked pretty damn good!

Das, you sent me those textures. Yes, I did got them. The problem is this: My Hotmail account supports only 2mb free space for mails. Your textures are way over 2mb. Grrr... Thats why Hotmails server upkeeper deleted those files. So here is solution. Send those textures to my mothers e-mail: tuula.maenpaa@dlc.fi It supports more space, than mine.

Das, you sent me those textures. Yes, I did got them. The problem is this: My Hotmail account supports only 2mb free space for mails. Your textures are way over 2mb. Grrr... Thats why Hotmails server upkeeper deleted those files. So here is solution. Send those textures to my mothers e-mail: tuula.maenpaa@dlc.fi It supports more space, than mine.

hey ds-

sorry i haven't sent ya that pic yet, my scanner is acting squidgy, so i am going to take it to a buddies house tonight to scan. the gold rocks btw...

Mail me at tuula.maenpaa@dlc.fi And those pictures you sent me, there was 1 line about Mac or something.

Yap, I got those textures finally. Now I must ask... How do I import those jpg textures to Unreal? This can be stupid question, but I have NEVER worked whit textures, so I don't know much of them.

FedTed: Use any picture program to convert the jpeg to bmp. Then open UnrealEd and select import in the texture window right!
At last hit save and create your own package.

Fragmeister: I don't want to push or critisize you, but what's with the textures I asked you about?

To bmp? I thought that I gotta export them to PXC... =)
Damn I'm stupid... Maybe I gotta start texture making training whit photoshop also...

8-4-7-2 --
Good news is, is that I haven't forgotten about you.

Bad news is, is that I'll need a little time. I have been making textures for these earlier requests, trying to publish the TextureUniverse site (so everyone can download this stuff) and I'm publishing the magazine I work at this week, all at the same time. So needless to say...I've been a little crazed when it comes to time. I'm estimating about 40 hours of work will go into publishing the site alone, including making the graphics, animations, etc...

So,,,to make a long story short, I'll try really hard to get it done this weekend, but I can't promise that. I've got it on my list of things to do, but give me a few days.

I know you're not trying to press...I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten, I've just had a bit of a full plate this week....

Scott
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