yes agreed. I found this out recently as well. Bryce works differently with transparencies, than other CG programs.

I save my textures as bmp's, black version and a white version. anyone with PS can convert that to psd. if they wish, from the white or black.

example:

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/300657

Standard sizes are around 512x512(gaming mostly) to 1024x1024(alphas and panaramic).

1024x1024 is the best, IMO.

Tileable and seamless

Be sure to include choices: Bmp's for best quality PC and Tiff for MAC users.  jpg or Gif for those trying to save memory space.

24bit color rez at 300 dpi.(measured as Dots Per Inch)

 Also keep in mind, that the new Intel mobo and Nvidia Gcard will allow 64 bit resolutions.

So maybe, the textures of the near future, will be even more detailed.

actually not just squares Rayraz: Recently I discovered that hexygons can be made tileable as well and create an even better blend and unique quality, For very little memory/file usage.

This requires, added coordinates of 45 degree opposites, that are tileable. Just an added step. tiled hexes will be made UV wrappable I hope. Still trying to figure out Blender2.4(put on hold temporarily).EDIT: The same a the diamond finds its wrapping edges; so will a hexygon.

EDIT: I do it all by hand, from scratch, sometimes in MSPaint only, then take the bumpmap into Bryce for my texturing. Then make it tileable, again by hand in PS7 or even MSPaint.

What makes MSPaint so valuable is its ability to puzzle together 128x128 bits on a 1024 canvas. These can then be made alphas in PS7, making 16 puzzle pieces for one panel. allowing the artist to creat smaller panels of 4x4, 4x6 etc. without having to manipulate or resize the texture, in any way. Just build the squares and viola!

CRIF: The loading screen still says felines, to mee. Here Kitty, kitty....?

Glad you got so much help, Fo3. What a great community we have!

Yes, Rayraz that would make the textures into a complete building set.

But why not do it the way I did, in the link above? same thing. I made panels that can be arranged in any combination and make very unique looking walls around the entire building.

My other packs that are similar, cannot be shown here or anywhere. They are top-secret until the release of Simmars Beta2.

I made an entire One-way roads pack for that game and a texture puzzle for stone walks, Park puzzle, Avenue puzzles, etc.

The texture packs can be built into any type roadway, LOT, park, that is possible. some pieces contain cracks, worn white lines, or even a storm drain. Each piece is different in some way from the next.

Well they have no commercial value now; you just posted them all over the forum. Now I have a copy of them and As long as I use them for personal use, you gave them to us legally, above.

Even if they are re-sized or chopped up, I can make your images above very successful, with no watermarks on them. Truthfully; If I was a dishonest scoundrel; I could remove the watermarks also.

I suggest not posting ALL of your examples in a forum. Showing one example would have been plenty good enough.

I want textures that are unique, different from all the others on the net. That is not easy to create so I make packs of erectable textures, you can place them in all sorts of ways and they make totally different scenes that way. Like lego block textures, in a way.

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/300559

I would like to post textures here at Rosity, but they make getting a store up, extremely difficult. Too many steps involved, to much wait time, no real control for the artist, IMO anyways.

Man! I am starting to quander over the CRIFs.....I want to know; what is a CRIF?

Cuddly Regurdgitating Ionized Felines? hehee. Instead of leaving hairballs in your carpet; they hack it out and it sticks back on them. hahaa.

Alright, sorry about that pundation.

Your only hope is to host it for a fee, I believe.

If your Poser and Bryce are legally yours. Why not charge a downlaod fee: I will pay you a dollar or two to find out what a CRIF is. Especially a Bryce game, what Brycer could resist a peek?

You can then have a CRIF homepage and list at a their Search engine like Yahoo or Google.

EDIT: YES! Gmail accounts! We use those to send our Simmars game DATa with. Up to 100mb chunks can be sent to other developers and coders.

All I do is texture the models, so am no expert, but I send my work to team leader by Her Gmail account. I know not the cost, because she gives them away to dedicated members.

Me? I love foruming. I have one of my hobbies to use here now; Growing forum communities is what I do best, so get ready for more of me, at the very least, around 'Rosity forums.

At TurboSquid; I sent out a newsletter to over 700 subscribers. The place took off like a rocket the past month. TS is a small community, for now anyways. hehee.

Renderosity however, Is already a huge community and forum, so I doubt they want my help.

Trust me though; I am very good at this word of mouth thing. My mouth is quite large.

EDIT: the edit button is our friend. double posts are harder to mend. You are better off to append. hehee.

I like it for sure, but how do I get my avatar in  my profile Agent Smith? I cannot get the option to come up. Maybe not ready yet?

EDIT: umm, never mind AS; I think I figured it out. To make my sig and av; I click on my options above, not my profile.

Now this is wonderful! It will takeup some of Rosity's Bandwidth and and server space, but the possiblities for the forum to generate activity has just increased 10 fold, eh?

Okay; It is I the great and powerful Friend ov all ya!

My forums of choice:

TurboSquid

Simtropolis

DAZ Productions

Now all I need is one of my many avatars.

Better go check the size limit first. Usually 80x80 and 10kb any lower is just toooo small.

Thanks a million! That's a big help! Now I'm getting some even better ideas. My parametric images are moving along properly, as terxtures, but will they rotate or undulate? hmmmmm.

Cool! Thanks for the tips everone. I'll try it again.

Don't think it was Lannies 3D world, But I can't find it anymore. I typed: "Grey scale", in the search window and found a link in the list, that had grey scale images to import to bryce terrains. They also had a bunch of obj. files. The creators name was John Spirit, I think?

Hmmm, I would love to try this out! I have some added objects, Downloaded from the web, full spiral tubes and half spiral tubes. Got to find that link again! Also got twisted wires, I-beams, rounded 2x4's and currogated panels.