Rusty Cemente Walls Textures

Something else I've been working on, still in the WIP phase.

C&C as always, opinions on the overal look and theme of the textures, if they are useful or useable and what direction should this theme or style go in... these are just some basic walls, what else should I make to go with them?





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These textures are looking perfect... almost, the white dot will disturb pattern because it "jumps into the eye". But it´s no problem for me to remove it. Another minus of the textures is, that "single" textures are useless. A complete theme set is useful, like factory, forest shelter or harbour.

these textures are looking very nice...it would be great, if you did a complete texture pack of this theme...

These are looking great. Your texture work is really coming along beautifully. Tiny suggestion is that the top three all use the same base wall texture. If you don't want to put something in the middle of these particular textures like you did on the last one then you might consider altering the middles of each just a tiny bit -for instance different dirt pattern, cracks or whatever. Very good job.

thanks.

the white dot, i didnt even see it last night, must have been tired, but now I see a couple of them, easy enough to remove.

I always try to make complete sets, right now I'm just trying to figure out what this set should be. Once I have a clearer picture in my mind of what this place looks like it'll be a lot easier.

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A couple more walls... trying to create some variations. I'll be posting some more soon.

C&C please.





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Very nice! Keep 'em coming.

I'll probably do another round of examples some time tonight or tomorror and after that I'll release the final set in a few days. I'm giving myself a time limit on this project or else I'll spend the next few months playing around with it and still not be happy with the results.

so, gimme your comments and critiques and make any requests you might have for this set 'cus the clock is ticking... BTW, it will be a freebie set.

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hey, very nice job there..
i request one or two broken walls in that set, bullet-holes or cracks

maybe some air-holes

Very nice work. You are great!

Wow, These are quite impressive Very good work. Hope to see more.

ok, last 2 for the night.

some floors. Still WIP with a few things missing.



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These textures are realy good, and you create them very fast. Are you sure you didn´t ripped them somewhere?

ok, a couple more walls.. still WIP stuff but I'm close to releasing a small set... just need to sort them out, finish a few and make some last minute changes.



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Great job

Very cool textures.

congratulations

best regards,

Marcio

Chaged the floor grate, didn't think it should be the same as the walls plus the thin wire probably wouldn't be strong enough to suport much weight. Still need to fix the litte white dots.



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Dude, if you were here in front of me I'd be kissing your feet lol, these are AMAZING! Add some bump mapping to this and my gosh...

@semipronius -stuff is lookin' good. Probably the safest way to get rid of those dots is to use a push brush or just retouch with a paint brush (is it something in the source image?). In case you want to try something else look at this free filter http://www.redpawmedia.com/hotpixel.html and see if it removes the white spots without degrading the quality of the texture. I tested it and if you use your selection tool and draw quickly draw a circle around each area



(in PSP you can hold down the SHIFT key to add multiple selections)

and then run the tool once or twice it seems to do an ok job. You can then just touch up any tiny specks that refuse to die.

It'll actually be a lot easier than that. It's just a base rust texture that I've filled over a grate pattern so I just need to touch up the base texture, healing or clone, and then re-fill the pattern. I should have done this when I first noticed the spots but I've been more into creating the walls and haven't gotten around to it.

I'll go through everything and touch them up some before I release a finished set.. remember, the stuff I'm posting here is all WIP stuff and doesnt reflect what will end up in the finished set. But I do appreciate all C&C that I can get, it really does help.

Bump mapping - I've been wanting to do this, it does seem to be the future of textures so I'll get around making textures using normal and spec maps eventually. I should also start getting used to making walls in a 3d program and creating the textures and maps that way.

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If you want to make normal maps from 3D models I recomment you "melody" from nvidia. It´s a free tool to create lod models with normal maps of their high poly parents. It´s small and has some good options.

very nice

Looking good as always Sempronius!

the cement wasn't working for me so I switched to a metal theme... here is another WIP.

Just started this new version last night so there are a lot of things that still need to be finished up.



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Looking good.

Yep, very good.

Wish I could see them but it won't link them to this server because your bandwidth allowance has been exceeded. Msybe you should host them on a different server.

they are hosted at 'myonlineimages which gives me 1500mb bandwidth a month. I've been looking at a couple of other alternatives but it's not easy finding an all-in-one solution that is free and fits my needs.

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working of getting the perfect metal look. here are a 3 variations both clean and rusty... which do you think is the best?

I haven't made them seamless yet... still working on getting the right metal look.

#1 - no changes from psd file

#2 - sharpen filter

#3 - sharpen filter and auto levels


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either 2 or 3, but 2 i think. In my opinion number 1 is to soft and fuzzy to be metal

more WIP stuff, still adding details



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This is excelent work i think , would like to see how you make this , maybe a video tutorial

Number 3 definitely is the best because it gives a rough look too. Very good work Sempronius. I love it. Yup, there is more to texturing than just taking snapshots of trash cans for a source of metal as I always thought

ok, a quick tutorial. I'm not going to go into great detail but I'll give you my basic workflow.

First I start off by creating my basic shapes. In this case I am going to build a wall panel with 2 vents covered with a grate with pipes in the background.

here is the shape for the wall


the shape for the grate


and the shape for the pipes


not very exciting yet

with all three of the shapes I used a pattern fill and filled all of them with a seamless metal texture that I have pre-made. You probably want to use different textures or at least different variations for the different elements but in this case I used the same texture for all three layers.



the pipes... copy the pipe layer, select each of the pipes and fill with a gradient fill with a reflective gradient



change the layer property for the gradient pipes to 'soft light'. This is a very simple and quick way to make pipes.

from here is just a matter of going through each layer and adding filters, adding any additional details and finishing it off with a nice rusty texture on top set to 'soft light' to give the whole image a dirty rusty look.


the final texture, took me less than 5 min to create and I didn't do anything artistic. Normally I would touch it up some more and add more details but I don't think it looks that bad for a quickie texture.

Thats a nice and quick way Thx ....

Photoshop is one of the best to do stuff like this...

ok, here is a normal map and a simpler version of the texture to go with it.

I would really appreciate it if someone could test this out for me and lemme know how it looks (a screenshot would be even better). Next on the list is spec maps but I'm still working on getting normal mapping right.

Wow, great textures! I especially appreciate the tutorial. Please put a copy in the Tutorials thread. I have to thank you for while I can do the detail work your method and explanation is much faster as I usually spend several hours on mine. Thanks very much for sharing.

Do you mind if I suggest some things I have learned on sharpening based on your images?



#1 is your image with 'sharpening'

#2 is your original image with 'highpass sharpening'

#3 is your image and I added a layer that I used 'local equalization' plugin on, and set the blend mode to Muliply at 10% opacity.

What I have found is while sharpening can look very good for an image viewed at normal size, in WED if you apply the texture at 1.0 or even .5 it shows a lot of pixelation. Here are the same textures zoomed in to 200% which would approx what they would look like in WED at .5 (assuming I did the math right).



So you can see that if you need to sharpen or increase the detail method #2 or #3 gives better results -unless you set the texture in WED to something like .25.

Thanks again.

Oh, best thing for hosting textures is to put them on TurboSquid.com

I am simply amazed at all you texture maker guys. Your skills are far greater than mine, to be sure!

Bupaje and Semp, keep up the fantastic work!

I used ello's free bumPreview tool from this thread to do a quick preview for you

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=534616


Here's your normal map applied

http://stormvisions.com/3DGS/norm1.jpg

Here's another where I just split the normal map to RGB, increased the intensity of the Blue channel a bit (which represents the Z depth info) and rebuilt the normal map

http://stormvisions.com/3DGS/norm2.jpg

have to try building a 3D model and getting a normal map of that some day as Drew had mentioned how much better results were given. Anyway it looks good except I think you may have some problem with Moire effect with the wire mesh inlay. If so you may have to just 'mess up' the regularity of the color/lighting/lines of the wire mesh just a little as the regular pattern is what tends to produce this effect.

looks really good!
like this stile!
keep going

newb question:
Are textures from this thread free?
My team is in the middle of finishig a game that i will make free, but i would like to to have a completely free stuff in it (of course your name goes into credits ) in another words i dont want to have any problems after putting it all together

Also if they are please post what name goes into credits ...