My Low Polly Collection

[Elentor]

Textures can be taken from anything.

Anything that resemble something dirty can be everything, I\'m serious.

Usually on my drawings there are only two or three textures changed to look like they are another 10.

Right now I take my pics with my cam. There are six things that, if you have pics of them, you can do virtually anything:

Metal Bars
Wood Tables
Tree Woods
Dirty grounds
Walls
Grass

For non-commercial purposes, you can use the google images search function.
Or you can paint them from the zero, in photoshop... thats a good way to improve your 2d skills which you will eventually need to fine-touch your pics.

[JellyWerker]

Very nice, you have some talent, but you could do the same with fewer poly\'s, and a texture wouldn\'t hurt.

[Mentak]

If only i had a drawing pad. Then I can do God knows what. So if you get textures from (where-ever) how do you add it into the UV?

I have Photoshop 7.0

[Gentar]

You open the blank UV in photoshop, then you just take what ever the texture is and use it as an overlay. I then create a new layer and switch my brush mode to overlay and low the opacity and then add shadows and highlights. With overlays you can easily change the color of the metal by taking the color you want, lets use gold as an example and then simply brushing over the metal. This lets the metal show through while changing its tint. Here is the the third texture I ever made as well as the model it went on and yes it was done with a mouse




Actually, I have done quite a few textures with a mouse, and most of them have turned out pretty good, so dont go throwing away your confidence because of that. Besides, even with a drawing tablet, those take hours of practice to get used to. So seriously jsut try a UV and take your time. You seem to like to rush through things as youve completed three models today.

[Mentak]

wow that looks good. I\'ll keep it in mind. Maybe ill recreate the texture for my sword. But that wont be until tomorrow. Good night.