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I am designing some Buildings for my Airport and I want to draw my own textures from scratch to be used as Materials in FSX Gmax. I am trying to keep the poly count down, other than drawing the textures right in Gmax. I have several draw programs on my computer I can use.
I find it quite hard to get around to find photos of the textures I need.

Is there a tutorial that I can use to get me started? Frank!
 
Tutorials for creating textures in various programs exist. I use Photoshop, so finding tutorials for creating a variety of textures is very easily accomplished!

You might want to use Goggle to search for tutorials applicable to the program you are planning to use to create your textures.

Like you I find it almost impossible to find photos to use for creating a complete texture and end up either creating a texture or blend and modify a generic photo texture.

Regards, Mike Mann
 
Thank you for your assistance.
The first requirement I feel is the size, resolution of the material to be used in Gmax to be eventualy used in FSX. From this information I could use to draw my texture in the draw program of my choice. Then is the convertion to wharever the material requires to work in Gmax.

My first project would be a texture for verticle aluminum sideing for the airport hangers and other buildings. Frank!
 
flotocki said:
Thank you for your assistance.
The first requirement I feel is the size, resolution of the material to be used in Gmax to be eventualy used in FSX. From this information I could use to draw my texture in the draw program of my choice. Then is the convertion to wharever the material requires to work in Gmax.

My first project would be a texture for verticle aluminum sideing for the airport hangers and other buildings. Frank!
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The size of the texture will probably be determined by how close to the hanger you are going to be and how much detail you are requiring. Usually I find that if a hanger is a main component of the scenery I will use a 1024x1024 texture.

Usually I will create a bmp file which I will then assign to a FSX material in the Material Editor of Max/Gmax. Later (for FSX use) the bmp file will be converted to a DDS file that is placed in the appropriate texture folder in FSX.

Regards, Mike Mann
 
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