A random thought - If I made intermediate to advanced texture painting tutorials, would anyone be interested? Programs would be Photoshop 5.5/6, CorelDraw8, probably a touch of UVmapper, Poser and Bryce. Not every tutorial would cover all programs of course. (ignoring 3rdparty filters for the moment) Possible topics - texturing with filters, making walls, planning for variations, tiling across seams, pattern building, bumpmapping, transmapping, hairmapping, anticipating bryce render, making texture 'suites' with coordinating BryceMats, using tiled walls in poser/bryce, and making photo-surreal textures for fantasy creatures Anything else? :) These won't be started for a bit, as I have to finish some other stuff first, but I wanted to think about it, and see if there was anyhting else people wanted to know. Of course if anyone else wants to do a tut on these subjects - go for it :) Lyrra

Sounds great. I'm always keen for a looksee at how other people craft textures. Thanks in advance.

A BIG YES!!! We will also host them here. (If you like).

You can't call it work if you love it... Zen Tambour

 

I would defenently be interested, put it on 3dcafe also...

Absolutely YES YES YES !!!

What topics are you all most interested in?

Start where you like and add as needed.

You can't call it work if you love it... Zen Tambour

 

Hi Lyrra! This is a wonderful offer you are making. Right now I am in the process of creating a Resource Center for this forum, and your tutorials would be greatly appreciated by all I am sure.

Thanks
Alpha ;-)

I am a professional Corel and Photoshop trainer in NYC - I've written most of my own training materials (150 pages + at this point) So over the past coupla days I've been roughing together an outline of the various topics I mentioned, plus other things that crop up (no pun intended). Currently the outline is at 5 pages and expanding. If I'm not careful I'm going to write a book by accident :) The first tutorial doesn't look like it will be a tutorial per se. So far it looks like it will be more an introduction of concepts and overview of UVmapping vs procedural mapping. I'm still fiddling with the other topics - getitng them into a usefual and approachable order. As you can see I'm not done with the planning part. Once I know how I'm organizing these in my head I can start to write individual tutorials. 'Texturing with Filters' will have the bulk of the tutorials so far - explaining 'building block' textures, and how to create various effects. I may ask sonebody who models to help out in section 2 - I can only describe things from a texturers perspective. (usually from UVmapper saying 'what the heck is this bit? Name things already!') Here's a list: 1 Approaching Textures for 3Dmodels 2 How to set up your model for best texturing 3 Pattern Building 4 Photosource Textures 5 Making Textures with CorelDraw! 6 Texturing With Filters 7 Tiling Across Seams 8 Setting up a Layered PhotoShop file 9 Making Eyes 10 Using Pshop 5.5/6 Layer affects in texture painting 11 Making Walls 12 Using Tiled Walls In Poser/Bryce 13 Painting Trees 14 Bumpmapping 15 Transmapping 16 Hairmapping 17 Getting old and messy 18 Making Texture 'Suites' With Coordinating Brycemats 19 Using Texture Suites 20 Making Photo-Surreal Textures For Fantasy Creatures 21 3rd Part filters 22 Anticipating Bryce Rendering At the very least its fun to write :) Lyrra

This is some great stuff...

You can't call it work if you love it... Zen Tambour

 

I would love it if you did that Lyrra :)

Oh please do it. This is a great idea since it is a bit of knowledge few posses. Please share it. Will you contact us about the hows and whens?