Attached Link: http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_TTVol_01

Hi there, in its developers-only section (http://developer.nvidia.com), NVIDIA also caters for artists. Checking for some Cg information, I stumbled over an excellent hires-textures pack. The 110MB download is stock-full of mostly tileable 512 and 1024 textures in .dds format, which can be easily converted to something Vue can cope with using the Photoshop-for-Windows plugin (to be found here http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=ps_texture_compression_plugin ) and a small batch script. Well, perhaps e-on will directly support .dds in Vue 5? ;) At any rate: well worth the download it you have the bandwidth to spare. I converted the textures into .tga format, and ended up with almost 170 Megabytes of VERY high-detail textures and a couple of very usable bump-maps. Perfect stuff for close-ups in Vue. Usage is completely free, even for professional work; you're just not supposed to print/distribute the textures themselves. Have fun, -Sascha.rb P.S. as .dds, the textures are Windows only. After conversion, of course, they run on Mac as well. -.rb

hey there thanks for the link but i cant find the converter to convert the images any ideas dolyl

Hi dolyl, you'll need this: http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/1176/ATT/msvcr70.dll (copy to windows/system or winnt/system), and this: http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/1176/ATT/dds.8bi (Photoshop Plug-in) for Photoshop support. If you just need to convert them directly into .tga, download this: http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/1176/ATT/DXT_TOOLS_v5.19.zip and use the readdxt.exe. In that final download, you'll also have the Photoshop-Plugin and the .dll needed for it. hope this helps, -Sascha.rb

Thanks for that worked a treat cheers dolly

Attached Link: Texture Study: Cement and Cloth

NV ruined my week-end--didn't do anything else than trying out the textures and smoking lots of cigarettes. ;) I uploaded an example to renderosity (see attached link). WIP, of course--but I might continue with that theme none the less. ta, -Sascha.rb

Another one: using the differen asphalt textures for metal surfaces . . . looking nice, IMO. So, yeah. Download that pack. it's worth it. :D ta, -Sascha.rb