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I decided to give this Gimp program a shot because I read that it's excellent for creating tiling textures... used for tiling 3D terrain maps, walls, etc... Anyway, this was my first attempt at using it. I think it looks ok, except for a few things. What do you guys think?
btw: Does anyone know the rules for using things like this? I took the main image from some random web site and modified it to be tileable.
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Looks good! I never get how they make some tileable textures. Some of them are actually kind of freaky how good they are.
I saw a fruitloops tileable texture that was amazing.
Yes it does look good, I tested it tiling it on my desktop =)
I don't know about the legalities...
but I will say this: This is definitely an example of a picture where .jpg compression is superior =) 440~ kb to like 50~ kb, hehehe
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But JPEG is not lossless! Everybody hates JPEG artifacts...
Bah, you're right, though - JPEG is designed for photographs, PNG is not.
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well it looks like its streched verticallly, but otherwise nice job, I like gimps tile-ify thing too, its great.
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Actually, I didn't use a tile-ify, thing. I did follow this tutorial though...
http://www.highpoly3d.com/writer/tutoria...amless.htm
Also, I think the original image was kinda stretch looking.
about jpg vs. png... I saved it as png because I thought someone might want to use the texture for a game or something. It does look better as png.
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haha, then all the power to you, I'm one of those really bad artists who needs all the help he can get. Heck as if I could make a tile larger than 32x32 tileable. :wtnod2:
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wow, thanks for posting that link, I just tried it out and produced a not too shabby texture...but most importantly I now know how to make better seemless textures. no more 32x32 limit...mwahahahahaha....
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