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Author Topic: a question for all you modelers and artist.  (Read 691 times)

Michael

« on: July 17, 2013, 04:46:20 AM »
Whats the best way to have a similar color palette across you models. By that i mean having the same color palette for all building textures, but i dont want to have to create all my own textures from scratch, rather apply the palette to the textures i get elsewhere. Is there a feature out there you use or similar or am i just talking rubbish here.

The Cobbster

« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2013, 04:50:29 AM »
http://3dfoundry.net/forum/index.php?topic=622.0

Do you mean like just paint a buildins face onto the model? I made a little twxture pack for skethup...

See link..
http://www.3drad.com/forum/index.php?topic=10271.0
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BorekS

« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2013, 08:58:16 AM »
having a same or similar color palette for texured objects in the whole game scene? that depends on the game skinmesh shader, on the texture source paint, on the light - the textures you can tune with some paint program and so on...  8)

crazy idea: you could try bit funny tingy - to set the skinmes color directly with 3drad.
all skinmesh source textures shoud be gray color, and then you nicely can set the color tone the scripted way, more here about: http://3dfoundry.net/forum/index.php?topic=646.msg5768#msg5768

Michael

« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2013, 09:26:52 AM »
ah it'd be mad to have some limited palette alright through out the whole game,
not unless its Limbo or the like, no i just mean to have consistency visually.

Lets say i get a nice brick texture and then apply it to a building, the building next door will have a different brick texture ( artwork isnt my strong point so probably off the net) so other than fiddling endlessly with hue/rgbs (once again not my strong point end up looking like christmas wrapping) is there a way of making them match up.

Im probably just being lazy here looking for a magic bullet, but some of the artwork here has nice consistency to it, is that all just custom textures from scratch?

Also the shader idea sounds very interesting, how would you see that applied? Like to give the scene a general hue?

fourdee

« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2013, 09:34:51 AM »
Quote from: Michael on July 17, 2013, 09:26:52 AM
Im probably just being lazy here looking for a magic bullet, but some of the artwork here has nice consistency to it, is that all just custom textures from scratch?
Yep, Art is Art. Its down to you to ensure everything "blends" well together.

You can use iShaderFloat3Set(OBJ_0,"cColor", r,g,b); as BorekS already mentioned. But you will need to "think" it through before slapping it onto every mesh.

I'd highly suggest you start a simple project 1st, learn the ropes, worry about this later when you have built up your knowledge.

Cypermethrin

« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2013, 12:18:35 PM »
I would suggest just editing the textures side by side in your favourite art program, tweek the hue/saturation sliders till you get what you want and move to the next.

Michael

« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2013, 12:17:21 AM »
Thanks for the information Cypermethrin and Boreks  :)
Although im afraid my textures are doomed if its left down to me.
« Last Edit: July 18, 2013, 12:20:43 AM by Michael »

BorekS

« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2013, 04:25:12 AM »
here you could find lot of textures with similar color tone:
http://www.cgtextures.com

Michael

« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2013, 07:01:52 AM »
Quote from: BorekS on July 18, 2013, 04:25:12 AM
here you could find lot of textures with similar color tone:
http://www.cgtextures.com

Good link there thanks  :)

Michael

« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2013, 07:30:12 AM »
No wait that is a brilliant site, decals ,tutorials and everything categorized, gone are my endless google image searching.

BorekS

« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2013, 02:01:30 AM »
 :)
here is another one which I like personally:
http://texturelib.com

good luck with game developing  ;)

Michael

« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2013, 01:28:20 AM »
ah good man  :) now can you find me 6 beers, a 12" pizza and 4 blondes and i swear i wont ask for anything else

Facujk101

« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2013, 12:11:06 PM »
why you won't ask for anything? we are here to help you :), but sometimes you can use google or search on the forums to see if you can find a solution. And if you get the blondes send me 1 ;D
« Last Edit: July 23, 2013, 05:40:02 PM by Facujk101 »
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Sorvius

« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2013, 09:53:23 PM »
Michael, I understand if you say you can't texture, then you can't texture.  But you want to make games, and you probably don't have a team, so you're going to have to bite that magic bullet and make them.  Using textures from websites is a great way to get your game looking sharp fast, and cuts production time, but remember not to cross the line of infringement.  Even intellectual property is fuzzy these days.  If you really need textures and you can't make them, get a program that can!  Genetica and Crazy Bump are what I use and the results speak for themselves :)

-Sorv
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