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How to create a texture from scratch

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Anyone know a good tutorial on how to create a texture (to use on a 3D model) from scratch?

I dabble with scenery creation using Airport Design Editor, Instant Scenery 2 and Instant Object Studio. I now want to create textures to use on airport buildings from photographs. I am a 20 year Photoshop user, so I know how to clean up the photos, but how to I get them from Photoshop into a texture that can be used by FSX to paint 3D models? Do I just create a 1024x1024 image and try to cram it with as many parts of the building as possible and save it as a bmp?
 
Yes, but there are other technics, important to know which 3d modeling tool you use, but the basic is what you say to cram the texture sheet with the images and with uv unwrapping tool you apply the textures to the faces of the objects.
 
I read something about this tool because I not knew about it, I guess it work similarly to Skechup, no uv mapping and unwrapping, but very usefull and comfortable, don't know very well how work but I guess that the texture sheet is the way to go, assigning little parts of the texture to the objects faces, there is a review from Arno in the net , look for Instant Object Studio.
 
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Hi,

Trying to put as many different texture elements of the building in one sheet is indeed the best for the performance. So that would be a good way to go.

My tutorial about making a house with SketchUp also covers how I made the texture from the photos I used. It might give you some clue. How you make the texture is not really different for the modeling tool you use.
 
arno said:
Hi,

Trying to put as many different texture elements of the building in one sheet is indeed the best for the performance. So that would be a good way to go.

My tutorial about making a house with SketchUp also covers how I made the texture from the photos I used. It might give you some clue. How you make the texture is not really different for the modeling tool you use.
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Thanks a lot! Your tutorial explained it very good!
 
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