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# 31 03-05-2004 , 01:21 PM

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It is a question wether you want a good image or not - most people will not be able to acheive a good hi quality seamless texture at this price and when you are hard pressed to present your rendering tomorrow morning - this is a must.

It is the difference between amateur and pro work - unless you are a texture artist.

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# 32 03-05-2004 , 01:33 PM

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I agree. There are lots of places to buy textures or even models. Some of them are even given away. Of course, when you're doing something for a portfolio piece and not a job, it's nice to be able to say "I did ALL this."

Up to you and the project at hand.

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# 33 03-05-2004 , 01:50 PM

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True.

But but I think if you have the time it's important to try. There is nothing worse than seeing a texture in someones work that you've seen ten times before. It can instantly spoil an otherwise fantastic scene.

With a few basic photoshop skills its not hard to create your own textures both from a photo and for scratch.

For amateur work I think it's as important to master texturing as it is to master modeling.

Anyway it just my opinion and I don't mean to cause any offense to anyone user added image

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# 34 03-05-2004 , 03:13 PM

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I Agree with both - I have purchased a software called Texture Maker which helps a lot in creating customised textures. but even so, natural textures (woods ) are very hard to recreate so buying is a good decision.

The skill is to use a terxture but in a way that others don't.

I too use retuching when necessary but in my work which is in most cases "NEW" images and not aged ones - I cannot use too much dirt in it.

the textures I mentioned are good for new environments and 3D Total's (also have them) are good for the aged ones.

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# 35 03-05-2004 , 03:19 PM

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I've never used texture maker. Is it freeware?

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# 36 03-05-2004 , 03:21 PM

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No but it is one of the best 69.95 US$ you will have pay !

There is a 30 days demo

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# 37 04-05-2004 , 04:52 AM

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Looks like you guys took over my thread, hehehe:p

Anyways I've added bump map to the truck and made the shadows a little bluer and some depth of field.

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