Tutorial: The Ten Top Tips of Texturing...

[doylle]

This article covers the most common flaws in texturing, and an easy way to fix them.

[sarge mat]

Great read and very useful to me. Thanks.

[Talon]

Good stuff, dude.

One other one point I'd add is scale.

Not just texel density, but the size of details on a texture relative to the mesh.

I see a lot of people doing photosourced texturing where the thought process must go something like "I need a rust texture. CGTextures > Rust. Here's the rustiest metal I can find. Copy/paste. Done."

And you end up with an entire burnt out car wreck textured with about 1 square foot of rust because they've copy and pasted a close-up rust pic straight onto the full unwrap of a car.

So, keep in mind that the amount of surface area covered by the photograph should be the same amount of surface area that the entire photograph covers on your mesh.

[TheCorey]

Very nice article. Even though I think I knew most things it is helpfull.

[AlexanderSmith]

Seriously doylle, you're amazing, that was a fantastic tutorial, thanks a million!

[glynnsmith]

All the models on the banner images seem to be flipped over, so the text is back to front :P

Either that, or Dennis made a nice Jaxdod

[Mtg_kirin]

very nice article, will help me in the contest alot.

[Tom]

Very nice indeed! thanks for the tips

[AlexanderSmith]

Originally Posted by glynnsmith

All the models on the banner images seem to be flipped over, so the text is back to front :P

Either that, or Dennis made a nice Jaxdod

Haha, yes I noticed that too, somebody probably flipped the render. :P

[sampson]

Good work on the article doylle! look foward to seeing more articles by you!