weapon textures

[Raven2367]

where do you all get your textures from?? I need some to train on.
Pls help

[WardenMac]

airsoft sites are good for textures. Or you can build your own like cobra and coco  

[Cobra6]

What I do is look for Hi-Res pics on the web. Even if it is part of a weapon I save it. Then when I am ready to make a new weapon I take all the parts...I open them one at a time...select the pic and copy it to a new psd file. I then trace around the object and delete the background. Once that is done with each part I simply make a new .psd file and put all the parts in on a different layer. A good weapon will be 15 - 20 layers, or parts.

[Raven2367]

wow sounds like a lot of work!!
Thx for the tutorial!

[Whisper_44]

I know for a fact, that Cobra6, Mac and Coco are acutally working on a tutorial for just this subject, stay tuned and they will show us the way.

[dave-s]

I've been doing a simialr technique but using existing pictures on the net (dont do half the work cobra does, but thats cause Im lazy )
I do mess around witht e colour/contrast etc resizing.
Cobra's way will get better textures plus his way youll be able to modify the weapon more and/or make multiple versions of the same rifle

[Cobra6]

I am about 1/2 way done with the tutorial. I give you a zipped file with different pics of the SR-47 and I take you step by step on how to piece it together to make a very nice Hi-Res texture. If you follow those steps on all your textures you will always have great textures for your 3DSMAX models.

[Cobra6]

I've been doing a simialr technique but using existing pictures on the net (dont do half the work cobra does, but thats cause Im lazy )
I do mess around witht e colour/contrast etc resizing.
Cobra's way will get better textures plus his way youll be able to modify the weapon more and/or make multiple versions of the same rifle

EXACTLY!!! I have base textures of weapons i.e. MP5 and all I do is turn layers on and off and then I have different weapons.

[Whisper_44]

Cobra6's a genius with textures.....

Do you take requests?

[WardenMac]

Yeah he does, but his singing is not that great  . He seems to sound much better after a couple of shots  .

[Raven2367]

every time I look for wep textures at google theres sure to be a DTD screenshot under the found pics :-) makes you feel kinda proud huh?

[WardenMac]

Yeah I run across the several of the tac mod. Just goes to show the popularity of that mod, one of the best

[Cocobolo]

  I just realized that a MSN search for "cocobolo" comes back with the #1 site result "Home of the DTD Pro Mod Team", yeah baby! Under that, sites about the actual wood named cocobolo. LOL, that must piss them off, heh heh.