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by **wiggle987** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:32 am

I found out that one of my mates had one of those Total Textures cds so I asked him if I could borrow it, some pretty nice textures on it I'll say.

by **Athlete{UK}** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:56 am

Oh god. The total texture CDs give me a hardon. The environment map looks a little blocky though.

by **Shifty31** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:58 am

And where can we get these texture CD's ?

+ Sh|fty

by **Athlete{UK}** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:05 am

http://www.3dtotal.com

Very very very high quality texture maps.

8cds about £400 for the lot. Worth it if you're a serious artist.

by **wiggle987** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:07 am

They aren't really that high quality to be honest, most of them were obviously made from scratch in photoshop and it shows quite badly across a few. Even some of the textures that are tiles don't actually tile properly.

by **Athlete{UK}** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:09 am

A lot of them aren't suposed to tile though. And of course they are designed for use in CGI applications not for games. If you have a look through the galler on http://www.3dtotal.com there is a section for total texture scenes and you can see how high quality they are when used by pros.

by **wiggle987** on Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:14 am

I'd quite like to get my hands on the two "textures from around the world" Cds, might buy one and take a look. I'll buy with my EMA just to piss you off 'thlete