It is a question wether you want a good image or not - most people will not be able to acheive a good hi quality seamless texture at this price and when you are hard pressed to present your rendering tomorrow morning - this is a must.


It is the difference between amateur and pro work - unless you are a texture artist.

NIR

I agree. There are lots of places to buy textures or even models. Some of them are even given away. Of course, when you're doing something for a portfolio piece and not a job, it's nice to be able to say "I did ALL this."

Up to you and the project at hand.

True.

But but I think if you have the time it's important to try. There is nothing worse than seeing a texture in someones work that you've seen ten times before. It can instantly spoil an otherwise fantastic scene.

With a few basic photoshop skills its not hard to create your own textures both from a photo and for scratch.

For amateur work I think it's as important to master texturing as it is to master modeling.

Anyway it just my opinion and I don't mean to cause any offense to anyone ;)

I Agree with both - I have purchased a software called Texture Maker which helps a lot in creating customised textures. but even so, natural textures (woods ) are very hard to recreate so buying is a good decision.

The skill is to use a terxture but in a way that others don't.

I too use retuching when necessary but in my work which is in most cases "NEW" images and not aged ones - I cannot use too much dirt in it.

the textures I mentioned are good for new environments and 3D Total's (also have them) are good for the aged ones.

I've never used texture maker. Is it freeware?

No but it is one of the best 69.95 US$ you will have pay !

There is a 30 days demo

NIR

Looks like you guys took over my thread, hehehe:p

Anyways I've added bump map to the truck and made the shadows a little bluer and some depth of field.

here a closer look:

other side:

Here a wire, the truck is all done in polys (box modeling).

an update:)

Now that is lookin good!!!!!

Soz for nicking you thread BTW :0

Thanks DrRobotnik!!

I think I need to work on the sky a little more though,

No worry, thats what discussion boards are for:)

Great looking modeling !!:)

Thanks dragonsfire:)

Well I have been messing around with the scene some more.

hope you guys like it so far.