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Ocasious Member Posts: 114 From:North Hollywood,CA. U.S.A. Registered: Dec 2000 | posted 12-20-2000 06:04 PM Ok im getting ready to start making a texture set and I do have a program called photo impact. My first question is....Has anybody figured out just how many tex files you can load into a TGA file? Im using 64x64 pixels but when I look at the textures in the editor some of them dont look as detailed or appear very small. Its covering the square but just looks too small. Like for example I have a tex file of some bricks but when I put it in the TGA file the lines between the bricks were not that visible. IP: Logged
JohnCroft Member Posts: 251 From:Germany Registered: Nov 2000 | posted 12-20-2000 09:32 PM Sorry, I donīt understand your question. Where exactly is your problem? I also made my textures ( http://www.levelworld.org/textures.php ) with PhotoImpact and I had no problems Let me know if I can help you! IP: Logged
Reb@Eidos unregistered | posted 12-21-2000 02:02 PM Often when reducing images to the small 64x64 size a lot of detail is lost. If your graphics program has a 'sharpen' filter, this can help. But, the best thing is to find or scan images at a small resolution so you don't have to do much sizing since this is what can cause blurring and loss of detail... IP: Logged
ImmortalX Member Posts: 152 From:Greece Registered: Dec 2000 | posted 12-21-2000 03:03 PM Visit: http://www.3dcafe.com http://www.zoorender.com You'll find many categorised textures there but there's still the resizing problem. A quick way to fix this, is to subdivide a texture in a series of 64x64 tiles using a paint program.First,check if the image width and height are multiples of 64.If not,resize the whole image to the closest match.Then,set up a 64x64 grid in your paint program to help you cut and paste the tiles in your main texture file. You might find some textures that cannot be "tiled" seamlessly.Here's another trick: Again open the image in a paint program."Mirror" it and save under a different name.Open this new image and combine the two images in one(the original to the left, the new to the right)Again save under different name and open.Now "flip"this image and repeat the same process but putting the first on top and the newly created on bottom.If you do it right you'll have a seamless texture.And finally...If this texture is too big then subdivide it! ------------------ ~{^I*X^}~ IP: Logged
ImmortalX Member Posts: 152 From:Greece Registered: Dec 2000 | posted 12-21-2000 09:55 PM OOOOPS!Forget about step 1!!! Just paste the whole image in your texture file,covering many "tile slots",and the editor does the rest for you... (Sorry ) ------------------ ~{^I*X^}~ IP: Logged

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