How do you make good textures?

[ElimiNator]

How do you make good textures? (faces clothing wood steel ...) ?
 ???

[MadElf]

It all depends what program you are using. I use Photoshop, is the best one in my opinion, but is hard to learn.
You can also use real things, like, a photo of a real wood.

[ElimiNator]

Where do you get it. ( Dose it cost cash? )
Can I see some thing you made? ( A texture. )
                        ???

[MadElf]

Yes it costs money... You can see some things I did here:

https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=4318.0

But some textures I just edited the colors and other stuff from the original.

[gameboy]

You could start with the gimp, its quite easy to get around it.
http://www.gimp.org

[ElimiNator]

I use the gimp put I can't make good faces with it.
And I use paint.net I still can't make good faces

See


made with gimp

[Omega]

BTW, I just made a topic in general discussion that is somewhat similar. It tells of a program I found that make SA-WEET tileable textures easily and with high customization!

[ElimiNator]

ok thanks

[John.d.h]

For faces, you can use pictures of real people.  So far I've just been using the original Glest ones, though.

[madmanntis]

Ha ha... yeah. For a unit I made I used a picture of Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry.

[MadElf]

Ha ha... yeah. For a unit I made I used a picture of Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry.

lol

For my Satyr's face I used that picture:

http://www.walden.com/walden/_images/custom_images/caspian/Satyr.jpg

[John.d.h]

Here's one source for free textures: http://www.burningwell.org

And I sometimes find some decent ones at http://commons.wikimedia.org

Also, if you want symbols and logos to put on your textures, you can try searching for it on http://www.deviantart.com, but you have to make sure to ask the people before using their work.

If all else fails and you can't find what you want online, grab your camera and find something that looks like it in real life.