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#tiling granit and marble

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#165069From: Tim c BrananApr 16, 1995 8:39 PM

Anyone know a good source for tiling textures for granite and marble? I need good tiling maps, with decent variety and good detail. Thanks to all

#165090From: Apr 16, 1995 10:56 PM

Tim: >> Anyone know a good source for tiling textures for granite and marble? Have you looked into the SXPs from Mike White here on the forum? Good stuff… Greg Pyros

#165098From: Tim c BrananApr 17, 1995 1:05 AM

>>Have you looked into the SXPs from Mike White here on the forum? Good stuff…<<< Yea, it is on my list. I am going to need it for some stuff, since it will be difficult to map any other way.

#165125From: Martin Doudoroff/KUBApr 17, 1995 8:42 AM

Tim– Both the World Creating Toolkit (r3 & r4) and, especially, the Texture Universe CD have a number of very high quality, high resolution, *tiling* maps of granite and marble. The maps were photographed and retouched by Mike Spaw. You can find the tiling maps easily by consulting the ascii file indexes on each CD-ROM. Martin

#165145From: Tim c BrananApr 17, 1995 11:07 AM

I check out the world creating toolkit, and it has four tiling textures. I guess I will have to check out texture universe.

#165144From: Mike KelleyApr 17, 1995 11:06 AM

To add to what the others are saying, if you have Kai's KPT Version 2.0, you can easily tile any map, in about 2 seconds. I've tiled many of the non-tiled maps on the World CD and found them great. For around $100, I can't imagine anyone into 3D not having this product (being a PhotoShop plug-in, it requires a compatible program to use, but doesn't everyone have PS or some clone?). I also suspect you can use the KPT texture explorer to create your own marble and granite, but I haven't tried that (too much software, too little time!).

#165151From: Tim c BrananApr 17, 1995 12:30 PM

I have the KAI stuff on order, won't be here for a week or two, Getting it as a bundle with some other software. I will look into it when it arrives. Thanks for the info.

#165182From: Tim Krego, [pro.image]Apr 17, 1995 2:44 PM

>>>I also suspect you can use the KPT texture explorer to create your own marble and granite, but I haven't tried that (too much software, too little time!).<<< Way to much software. I think I need to have a setup like the big boys do, 2D paint artist, 3D modeler person, video producer, etc. I just need to find an extra $500K to run it each year.