Ok so PedRising/UndeadRising/whatever.. Casey's been going around taking photos of things that we can use as textures but I need as many textures as possible and we're having real trouble with tree's because where he lives, the tree ratio is 90% gum tree and 10% random shit.. gum tree's look very distinct and are not in america as far as I know.. which is a problem so I figured I'd come and ask you guys for help
you don't have to be american to help, anywhere in the world really, you just need to have a camera that can take large photo's of 2000x2000 or so, every texture we make will be 1024x1024 but for ones like tree branches and other fauna, the larger it is, the easier it is for us to modify to crop crap out
And a steady hand
Things we need? Fauna is the main thing, trees, shrubs, plants in general but sooner or later we're going to need all sorts of things (concrete, paths, roads, grass, dirt, bricks, walls, roofs, random objects like air conditioners, hub caps, animals *though getting good animal textures may be impossible XD*, materials from chairs or carpet, wooden things... you name it, we need it) and seeing as we are our own "artists" when it comes to creating textures, we need all the help we can get
when I worked on Gostown, they had an artist on board who's soul job was creating concepts, textures and graphics so he could whip up whatever you needed and unfortunately we lack that luxury :/
How do you get a good texture photo? Well remember that it's goign to be put over the top of a model and wrapped around it so the images need to be as flat as possible, if it's 90% good but not perfect then send it anyway and we can fix up little errors for good enough images
For things like trees and branches, they need to 1 be as close as possible to get the actual tree or branch in as high a quality as possible and 2 make sure that behind the tree is some sort of flat colour like a blue sky, clouds or buildings will make it damn near impossible to use :/ ALTHOUGH A defined branch with of the same tree behind it is still very good because it will blend together nicely
so both are good.
Here's an example of a good branch image and the resulting alpha I made from it
now I'm not great with this sort of thing so unfortunately I can't actually use that image for the texture, I'm only going to be able to use it to make the alpha and use a similar image to get the leaves then add my own branch..
If you have photoshop experience and think you can give me tips then it would be much appreciated as Casey and I pretty much learn ourselves then help each other which works fine but we're on a new level here
