Idea

We texture artists around here have our little tutorials and occaisional pimping of our work, but I think it would be nice if we got our own forum. With 'Help Wanted' gone, there really isn't a place for texture requests anymore, and questions about texture software, like Korn's recent thread.

With HL2 coming up, the demand for public textures is going to be much less with orange-mapping as the accepted style, and a texture artist who is willing to make you private, hi-res textures is going to become increasingly hard to find.

We could help the fledgling artists of the forum improve (images of Orpheus-esque texture pack reviews) and arrogant bastards like me could show off our work, while having a forum that mappers can ask for textures in without being called newbs.

So who's with me?

from what i have been able to gather, the future of HL is in its textures too.. more so than HL did..

you got my vote.. and if the slots are all full, i can stand down to make room for someone with more to contribute.. if its necessary..

you have my vote cass.. if its a choice between us..

*bump

I dont think there are enough artists here to compensate for an entire forum tbh.

Oh yes there are. And if it doesn't work out, Lep can just delete it or something... Right? :razz:

Sure there's enough. I mean, there used to be a Jumpbot forum and how many people used that?

Yeah thats a good idea.

Theres also a nice 3D/art forum at www.psionic3d.co.uk

If I see more art threads in here, then ok :P

You won't see more art threads till there is a 2d art forum? Thats comon knowledge! + I really like the idea, being a budding s**te texture hacker who can't make anything and lives by editing other peoples textures for my own needs (with permission )

You have my vote, between people requesting textures, and/or wanting to learn how to texture.  Hell, the Snarkpit would turn into a mapping/texturing website.  But then again, you cant make a map without textures now can you?

*bump

Any way we can sticky this? I think it'd be a pretty important decision.

looks sticky now

I dont mind bumping it, keeps it at the top and gets my posts up :biggrin:

Wait... Since when have I cared about my post count?

w00t! now its a sticky thread!! Snarkpit would be an excellent site for a 2d art forum..I mean, so many mappers come here and they usually say the same thing about their maps "I know the textures suck.."

Vash said:
w00t! now its a sticky thread!! Snarkpit would be an excellent site for a 2d art forum..I mean, so many mappers come here and they usually say the same thing about their maps "I know the textures suck.."

Mine do, just ask Orph, he knows I like the fifties textures. :razz:

sounds like a good idea

he knows I like the fifties textures

 

Who doesnt? :biggrin:

fifties roxor      i wouldnt mind having more textures to work with. im all for an artist, 2d...3d art, texturing forum...whatever if it gets this site more wad files.

meh, well I spus if we had a jumbot forum before, We can support a 2Dart forum.

Hold on..."I would like" and "what if..."  have been deleted!  Noooooo!

KoRnFlakes said:
meh, well I spus if we had a jumbot forum before, We can support a 2Dart forum.

I thought the Jumbot, Map Reviews and Help Wanted forums were all a waste of space.  I'm glad they have been removed.

I'd love to see more texture art on this site, but to be honest I don't think there is nearly enough to justify a whole forum.

IMO, waste of space is in the eye of the beholder..

if we have 5 megs worth of texture questions scattered all over the general topic, or localized within a texture artist one, its still 5 megs..

i say, if cass is willing to commit himself to it whole heartedly.. he should have it..

it is a given, HL2 will rely on textures far more than HL1 did, why not have an area dedicated to it.

plus, even tho few used the jumbot forum, it still had users, should they have been punished for being few in numbers..??

/2cents

since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files?

my 2 cents.....personaly, the texture art area of mapping is where i need the most help......imho....  :smile: i could use a good resource for my s**tty little questions....i too get tired of not having the skillz to produce my own good looking work, and being limited to using everyone elses  stuff, as it rarely fits my needs, and makes me settle for something not quite what i wanted-ish.....how 'bout it Leper, ole dude??

...../me leaves popcorn trail towards the yes column....

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

i am betting, when grimlock gets here he will have a 1/2 page document on the pro's/con's of this idea.. wanna lay odds the "PRO" side will be a might bigger ..

 

/me uses brassmans dodgy smile cause he can't figure out how.. :dodgy:

grrr....me waves stick at bud Orpheus......grrrr

Dr Brasso...:moonie:

"since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files?"

Never heard of a PCT, what is it?

afaik "PICT" its some sort of image or batch of images I guess. Its what most of the files in Will Rocks texture folder are called & im interested in seeing what the actuall file type is myself.

Cassius said:
"since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files?"

Never heard of a PCT, what is it?

seems to be a macintosh photo according to me PSP..

my advice korn, use PSP to convert it to a .jpg

actually, the "pct" extension is , i believe. for mac files...and as such are supported in PS7 and PSP 7

Dr Brasso...WHERES MY DAMN SMILEY??

Did a little research, and I found out that they're Mac's version of the BMP. A little more research and I found out what you can use to open them in Windows:

http://www.cerious.com/download.shtml

Thumbsplus version 6. Tell me if it doesn't work.

(Cough PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A SUCCESSFUL USE OF POTENTIAL TEXTURE ART FORUM Cough)

open with>psp - "Bitmap or PICT is too big to import"

how damn big are the textures yer trying to open??

Dr B

KoRnFlakes said:
open with>psp - "Bitmap or PICT is too big to import"

what version of PSP?

dunno m8, but Will Rock has some of the nicest ancient style level design ive ever seen. The textures are v good so no doubt enormous.

+ orph v old version, 4/5 I dont use psp uc.

+cass, ta m8. dl it now, gonna take an hour though :/

KoRnFlakes said:
dunno m8, but Will Rock has some of the nicest ancient style level design ive ever seen. The textures are v good so no doubt enormous.

+ orph v old version, 4/5 I dont use psp uc.

+cass, ta m8. dl it now, gonna take an hour though :/

mine is version 7, and maybe i could convert them for you, but have you tryed the link cass provided?

if all else fails, we can get them to me via my suitcase

they cannot be over 15 meg pictures..

lemme know and i will help if i can..

nah, thas alright orph m8. There are loads and loads of em in there & itd be nice to have something to open/save them with in future. I do plan to map a little when they eventually release a level editor for WR.

im dl that proggy that cass linked to now.

id love to mess with the textures korny....feel like giving up a link so maybe i can figure a solution?

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

cant m8, im just looking at the textures that came in the Will Rock engine. http://www.will-rock.com/ I bought the game recently, Just wanted to look at the texture files so if I map for it later il understand the texture file type.

Theres probably a better proggy for them out, prolly for serious sam since its much the same engine. Great game for 20 quid.

ahhhhhh....well, thanx anyway m8....might have to loosen up the ole wallet.... :smile:

Doc B..... :dodgy:

:sad: what a waste of time, Looks like il need to try and find a contact to saber-interactive, ask them when a level editor will comes out for will rock & what I can view .pct files with.

KoRnFlakes said:
:sad: what a waste of time, Looks like il need to try and find a contact to saber-interactive, ask them when a level editor will comes out for will rock & what I can view .pct files with.

just a thought, but sometimes its beneficial to find a forum concerning a new game to see if they have the inside scoop on how to do this very act..

tis prolly how we all originally found SP :eek:

yeah, dont worry I use the forum. Its a bit un-used atm though :/

I vote for yay to a 2D art forum, I know that many of us level designers are getting into texture art more, and if there is a forum maybe more texture artists such as cass and korn would show up and frequent the place.

Well, I would have been here to comment on this idea sooner but my windows XP regestry melted down, luckly I had everything but my most recent photoshop images backed up.   Had to install a second opperating system to even get to the files (in total 30 + hours of texture work source files).

Great idea for a new forumn, I know that I would use it for sure (that or continue to toss my postes in the general banter section).   I think a lot of people would also to be honest, if even for simple questions like how to make an image tile properly (I'm sure we could make a tutorial on something like that though.)   The key part though is in the naming, if it where named "texturing" or something along those lines then you would get all sorts of questions about how to align, rotate and god knows what else not related to actually making textures.   I guess it wouldn't hurt but it would seem to fit more in the "half-life editing" section.

I can think of all sorts of questions people might have regarding textures and how to create and minipulate them, some people may just want to know how to create a simple bump map.   As some of you pointed out, textures have always had the power to make or break a project (any situation that requires some degree of skill in creating and applying 2-d art).   HL-2 will depend greatly on the 2-d art applied to the geometry.

So as Orpheus predicted my vote is 100% PRO

-BTW my XP regestry melted shortly after my last texture post, I didn't get to see anyones feedback on them, once I get my machine fully rebuilt I'll have to repost them (sorry to anyone who gave input)

I back the idea, only so we can flood it with concept art! :biggrin:

Gwil said:
I back the idea, only so we can flood it with concept art! :biggrin:

knowing you, you were catching screenshots of me today :razz:

/runs

Orpheus said:

Gwil said:

knowing you, you were catching screenshots of me today :razz:

No, I'm sure he has something much more sinistar planned for those

GrimlocK said:

Orpheus said:

Gwil said:

knowing you, you were catching screenshots of me today :razz:

No, I'm sure he has something much more sinistar planned for those

hotornot.com

that hotornot reminds me greatly of a site i know, only its not only people, its funny pics, close-ups, animals, cars and so on.. hotornot sucks in comparsion :dorky: