Hi all, I have recently returned from holidays and posted a few pics. I went to a place called Wellington caves and took some really nice texture photos. I played around with the textures of one in Bryce and posted it as a pic called Ancestral image. Wawadave said he would love to have textures like that so I would like some info on how to make a texture map for Bryce, (D/S and Poser) so I can share it with wawadave and any others that find it interesting. I originally played with the texture to get something that would look like burnt skin so any hints there would be helpful. I have included the orig pic, the textures evolving from it and the pic that wawadave liked so you can get an idea where I am comming from (if my pc decides to load it!). Thanks all, check out my gallery if you want to see me feeding a Tiger!!! Jenny

My pc is still in holiday mode i will try to load the pic again...grrrrrr.

The down and dirty on this:

1.  If you can, make a seamless tile out of your picture.  That way, if people want to use it on sometihng large, they can scale it without having unrealistic seam lines.

2.  Take your seamless tile, duplicate it, make the copy a gray scale image and gaussian blur it a little.  This will be your bump map.

3.  Either save it as two images, or save it as a tif with your bump map saved to the alpha channel.

Could be worse, could be raining.

i take it you have saved the textures some where in bryce? if so just export them  zip them and follow info below!!!
doing the info in the above post on a second set could be helpful for useing on larger items.

as for putting this up for people to d/l i use downloadtaxi.com
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hope this helps!!!

 

Thanks I will give it a go, wish me luck

good luck!!