Some Textures

BHoltzman,
These were just quickly done with Painter21. It has several ready made textures, plus what you can do with making changes, creating your own, etc. Pretty neat program.

I wouldn’t know where to start doing things like this with trig, or any other type of math for that matter….LOL

Les

Hey Everyone,
Here are some textures that I did while goofing off today. These are pretty abstract so I’m sure that not just everyone will like them. These are all 256 X 256 24bit color Bitmap files.

Les

Some nice textures!
What did you use to create them? i have no real image editing program, and am looking into some to edit my models with. I will also need a good prgram to use unmapping with, right?

blaydrnnnr,
Hi, well I just got my new machine up and running, and I’m still mading udjustments so bear with me.

I believe I made these in Painter21(free software), but since I lost the old machine(DEAD), I’m not really sure. At any rate the textures are long gone now….LOL

When I get everything finished on this machine, I’ll try to do some more.

Les

Hey…
well, im know your up and running by this time on your new toy… and good luck with it..i hope to build one just for my rendering and graphics soon…anywho…painter21 you say…free you say?? Hmmm.. have to give it a look-see…i am actually thinking of buying Paint-shop-pro…( or should i say Paint shop PRICEY!!!!!) seems to be the program of choice..great..just what i need..Pulling my hair out trying to figure out 3DC…giveing myself splitting head aches trying to figure out POV ( absolutely no success there) and now an image editor….i need to win the lottery so i can just stay home and play with all my new toys…

Alrighty!!! Thanks Alan..going to download them tomorrow..let me know what you think of any of them. I’m new to imaging, ( except for alot of very basic stuff in windows paint) I’ll check’um out. The P-51 Mustang is gonna need a very awsome texture..no skimping on this one..its coming along very very well, and very detailed( landing gear, struts, flaps, ..canapy have to be perfect!!) It will be the first mapping i am going to try to work with, i dont think simple painting will do it on this one. ( yes this means i’ll be bugging, .. uh… asking for alot of help on both mapping, and background scenery.

blaydrnnnr

some more free paint programs for you to check out….

[img:gi2crrxf]http://www.dogwaffle.com[/img:gi2crrxf]
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andnbsp; (not yet tested – downloading now (but it looks good))

[img:gi2crrxf]http&#58;//www&#46;gimp&#46;org[/img:gi2crrxf]
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andnbsp; (very good)

[img:gi2crrxf]http&#58;//www&#46;serif&#46;com/photoplus5[/img:gi2crrxf]
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andnbsp; (don’t know about v5 but v7 is very good)

I’ve used all three of these actually, and the Gimp is the best one. andnbsp;I did not like dogwaffle at all, and yes, PhotoPlus 7 looks very nice, but 5 is a little sparse on features. andnbsp;It all depends on what you want to do.

Now that I have the resources at my disposal (and creating train-sim models and skins has become kind of a hard-core hobby for me), I use Photoshop and/or Paint Shop Pro.

[img:2foqn8q3]http&#58;//www&#46;dailypost&#46;com/download/files/general/graphict/dogwaffle/Dogwaffle&#46;zip[/img:2foqn8q3]
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But look at andquot;The Gimpandquot; first …. andnbsp;

Alan,
How and where exactly did you download Project Dogwaffle? I can’t seem to locate the download link.

Les

Thanks for the info…I’ll mbe downloading this weekend to check them out. I’m just getting started so the best of the free ones will let me get a taste of whats available, and what i need…thanks all!!!! :

I did the survey of cheapies for myself recently and here are my conclusions:

Gimp – unstable at my place. andnbsp;Didn’t keep it

Pixia – great for tiled backgrounds. andnbsp;Most docs in Japanese. andnbsp;Overall limited. andnbsp;Transparency not easy to handle.

Dogwaffle – doesn’t run on Windows ME so didn’t try.

Ulead freebies from magazines – couldn’t do transparent layers

The winner – Satori ([img:3gqsfwxl]http&#58;//www&#46;satoripaint&#46;com[/img:3gqsfwxl]
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) – version 2 free and about 10 bucks to upgrade. andnbsp;MUCH harder to learn than the others. andnbsp;But its images are scaleable, so when you need to redo your images for widescreen you can just resave them.

Photoshop 4 is still useful if you can get it – and it’s the only program that never crashes my computer.

Geo

RE: Photoshop 4.

Funny. I guess that’s why I still have it handy. It always did what I wanted. I even ignored the upgrades.

This is interesting. I was playing around with different ways to make plasma on the computer and these texutures that you came up with look a lot like the trig functions I had changing over the area of the screen.