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Free textures/sounds/models/knowledge
« on: 26 September 2008, 23:32:47 »
Good place for textures ( if you also have useful photos upload them here!! ):
http://www.burningwell.org
and especially:
http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/

Free_3D_and_2D_art_and_audio_resources:
http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/F ... _resources

and an interisting community of free game developers:
http://forum.freegamedev.net/
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Re: free textures/sounds/models/knowledge
« Reply #1 on: 26 September 2008, 23:38:56 »
I guess you're assuming as I did that we're not getting the past back.

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« Reply #2 on: 27 September 2008, 00:02:23 »
yes :) )
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« Reply #3 on: 27 September 2008, 00:10:43 »
Until the site gets back to normal, (whatever that is [cross your fingers]) try not to use the smilies that have dots on them because they look really annoying.

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« Reply #4 on: 27 September 2008, 02:53:05 »
Ugh, I lost 200 posts. I'm going to start saving entire threads of mine that I consider important. (Just wait until the page is loaded in IE, then choose to save as MHTML, since that keeps images and all in one file. Not very compatible, but...
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« Reply #5 on: 30 December 2008, 23:25:30 »
I think this topic should be stickied.  I had to go to page 4 to get to it, and I couldn't remember what it was called, so...

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« Reply #6 on: 31 December 2008, 14:25:12 »
Yes, this is very useful. I wish there was a mass download button. For now, I use IE to save the entire page with the images. Much lower resolution, but I really have no use for 2000x1500 pictures.

PS: WHat's with the baking power splat on the floor photo? Shouldn't you have cleaned that up? :O
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« Reply #7 on: 31 December 2008, 16:51:16 »
You can save entire Pages with FF, too ^^

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« Reply #8 on: 1 January 2009, 21:51:43 »
Yeah, I know, its the exact same as IE. However, the images are thumbnail style, which means they are really small... That's fine though, since I usually only texture in 256x256 or maybe 512x512...
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« Reply #9 on: 3 January 2009, 02:57:40 »
So...time to get stickied!  Titi...!

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Re: Free textures/sounds/models/knowledge
« Reply #10 on: 8 January 2009, 12:34:25 »
Someone else did it...( I think kukac) [Who else? :P - @kukac@]
I'm marked as moderator here, but I don't have any more rights than a normal member since we switched to the new board.
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« Reply #11 on: 9 January 2009, 03:29:48 »
OK, that's a problem.  How about @kukac@ lets you in his group; then there's two to fix any problems instead of one.  [I'm only a moderator, not a moderator leader. Did I fix any problem at all?  :D

Sorry for the Off Topic.

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« Reply #12 on: 12 January 2009, 03:42:42 »
OK, that's a problem.  How about @kukac@ lets you in his group; then there's two to fix any problems instead of one.  [I'm only a moderator, not a moderator leader. Did I fix any problem at all?  :D

Sorry for the Off Topic.
Hmm, the new board has a bit of problems. I think only Martino can do this... Good News: He's been active lately. (been awhile)
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« Reply #13 on: 13 January 2009, 01:39:09 »
OK since it's already OT, who is, and you forgot your signature. =]

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« Reply #14 on: 23 December 2009, 21:12:16 »
I know I'm resurrecting an old topic here, but I don't see a need to start a new one...

I've been taking a lot of photos for Burningwell.org and uploading them, but it doesn't allow me to move anything into the texture folder.  In the "Destination" area, it shows all of the other albums, but not textures, and I have a lot of pretty good texture photos that are currently not organized (just sitting in the "Upload Images Here" album), so I don't think anyone can access them except for registered users.  I'd rather they were accessible for everybody!

Also, if anyone has any specific requests of regular household objects or things around my neighborhood that they want a picture of, I'm taking requests!

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« Reply #15 on: 24 December 2009, 00:52:24 »
Oh sorry that's my job to move the texture photos there. The photos often stay a bit longer in the uploading directory because I only check the upload dir from time to time. But they are available there and searchable if you gave them good titles or add a description/keyword or whatever.
I will try to find some time the next days to move yours to the right place. ( currently I'm working hard on the egypt sounds ) .

Please try to sort them out a bit before you upload them. Photos with big light reflexes or flashlight relexes are really not good for texturing. Same with unsharp photos. Sharp photos with good lighting ( No shadows/reflexes ) are the best we can get. Its not so simple to take good texture photos!  Those bread photos in the upload dir for example are completly useless. Same with the hair ....

Things we always can use are ground textures. Earth, Rocks  and typical plants from the place where you live too.
Most wanted: Jungle plants
See the plant texture photos to know what I mean. Always think what you have to do to cut out the branches leaves in gimp. A good contrast really helps a lot  like blue sky white wall or dark night sky ...

By the way, my wife gets a new Camera for christmas  :D ;D :D  ( nikon d5000 ) lets see what this baby can do for us :) .
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« Reply #16 on: 24 December 2009, 01:25:31 »
Luckily I live in a humid subtropical climate, so I've got plenty of palm trees in my area.  I'll try to get a bunch of good tropical plant textures.  I'm not a very experienced photographer, so I'm still experimenting with lighting and unfortunately a lot of the surfaces I'm photographing are really glossy, but I'll see what I can do!

Edit: Okay, I went through and deleted some of the more useless photos, like the ones with big flash spots.  I'll try to take some more ground and foliage pictures tomorrow when it's light.
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Re: Free textures/sounds/models/knowledge
« Reply #17 on: 24 December 2009, 01:37:53 »
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:o thats good!

Palm leaves and runks would be really really great! Palm leaves can be photographed with the sky as the background, but its not easy to find a single leave in the sky .... Maybe you can cut one down and take a photo on the beach or a white wall or even the road as background or whatever.
Always take several photos to get even one sharp! First you think they are ok, but later you often see that only some are really good :( .

What would be good:
- palm leaves ( different kinds ). I you have not only perfect green ones, but also partly or completly brown ones
- Palm tree trunks . Closeups and distance shots shoing some more of the trunk. Pay Attention with shadows here!
- palm fruits ( if there are some )
- Do you have a Banana leave too there ?

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« Reply #18 on: 24 December 2009, 01:48:24 »
Okay, I'll see what I can do.  I haven't seen any banana trees lately (I'm a bit too far from the equator), but I'm at just the right spot to get a good variety of palms as well as more temperate trees like pines and oaks.

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« Reply #19 on: 24 December 2009, 23:54:27 »
I aslo like CG Textures.
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« Reply #20 on: 25 December 2009, 00:15:33 »
No.  Don't use CG Textures.  Ever.

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« Reply #21 on: 26 December 2009, 07:28:42 »
Why?
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« Reply #22 on: 26 December 2009, 12:30:55 »
Let me guess........copyright issues........... ::)
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« Reply #23 on: 26 December 2009, 19:07:11 »
Right! I also once used CG-Textures, but they told me that its not ok to publish the results with GPL or CC_BY_SA license, because this would allow others to setup a Texture page like they have ......
I replaced some of their textures for the megapack and luckily got a permission from CG-Textures owner allowing me to release those snippets in some textures with those licenses. After this experience I started my engagement at burningwell and made all those photos.

.. before I was even uploading to cgtextures because I didn't understand their license the way it was meant. For example this picture is(was) mine:
http://www.cgtextures.com/login.php?&texid=26667
But now I'm not allowed to release it as GPL any more ....

So never use those "free" sites if you want to create something real free. There are several others with licenses looking free but which are not really free.
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« Reply #24 on: 27 December 2009, 07:13:20 »
so I can use the textures as long as I don't let any body else use them? right?
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