Making a texture to resemble solid color paint?

I need to make a burgandy and offwhite texture, both that resemble just a painted surface. Just using a solid color does not work well at all, though that is pretty much what a painted wall is in real life. Does anyone have any ideas how to make a texture like that work, and be very repeatable?

These were the two colors I had in mind -





Thank you for any help or input.

if its a solid colr whith no shading or hue changes, it should tile evenly and seemlessly ....

Doc b... :dodgy:

double post....grrrr

Doc b... :dodgy:

Yea, it does tile perfectly, but it looks pretty damn bad, I am trying to see if there are anythings to do to improve the look of it.

Yea, it does tile perfectly, but it looks pretty damn bad, I am trying to see if there are anythings to do to improve the look of it.

Make a bump map for it?

Only way I know how to do that is by using a normal map, and this has no variation, so that wouldnt work. I guess in the game the offwhite did not seem to bad, but the red one was alot brighter than it should have been, and overall in hammer they just look very wierd and out of place. Thank you for your input so far.

What type of surface is under the paint? Plaster, wood, metal? What kind of map is it, overall... and why do you need this custom job? More info here would help us.

(zoom in to see the material)

I just did some layer stuff with a plaster base texture of mine.

The material under the paint is wood and the texture would me mostly outside under a pretty bright env_light. Cassius, that definately look better in the game than just a flat color. Anychance you can explain how to do that, doesnt seem too hard. Thank you guys so far.

Edit: This is what I am trying to imitate.

Just take the solid colour and add just a squigee of noise (a squigee is about 5%). What Cassius has should work pretty good.

You can use the "texturizer" in Photoshop to get an effect kinda like what Cassius did, too.

add some noise, as said above - just some really hard to notice, small scale color variation. Also make a bump-map. Just make a texture the same size as yours, make it black with white noise in. Maybe not white, the bump'd be too strong. mid-gray. Then compile it as a bumpmap, add it in your VMT as a bumpmap, low-scale. easy peasy. To see how to bumpmap once you've made the texture, go to http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=122 and scroll down to where the big blue pic is. read from there.