CyberGooch opened this issue on Sep 05, 2003 ยท 8 posts
hauksdottir posted Sat, 06 September 2003 at 7:39 PM
Getting even lighting on textures so as to make them tileable seamlessly is tricky. If you can manage that, you are a step ahead of the game. If your texture doesn't tile, there should be a worthy reason. For example, a collection of Navaho rug textures wouldn't be tileable because their patterns don't work that way. Having proper ID is critical. If you are shooting rare woods such as Koa and Rosewood and Purpleheart, say so, and make sure that the grain is distinguishable. (Putting a purplish tint to Oak doesn't make it anything but badly stained Oak.) Make your packages distinctive, with something we can't readily get in the freestuff sites. I already have carpet and terrycloth towel textures galore... probably because everyone with a camera knows where their towel is! Do you have a friend who collects kimono? Or a neighbor who wears Arican tribal patterns? Or know the owner of the Scottish shop with 150 authentic tartans? Getting good clean identified references is very valuable! Anybody with a paint program can throw red/green/yellow lines on a square, but that doesn't make it a tartan. If you have historic patterns, the better. Bonnie Prince Charlie ought to be wearing "the right stuff". (pun intended) Don't try to sell a package of 20 textures, where you only have 1 pattern in 20 different colors. That is a waste of bandwidth... and we know better. Do try to sell unified packages on a theme. 20 different furs, where you photographed every dog, cat, rabbit and guinea pig in a 6 block radius and chose the best variety of curl, sheen, and fuzziness would be great, because we could change the hue once you offered pattern and texture. Carolly