How to make high resolution textures?

[Thepal]

What he means to say is that all people are doing is doubling the size of the texture and adding a sharpen mask in photoshop. "High-res" is a gross overstatement.

 

No... not what I meant. I hate sharpen with a passion.

 

i see and when you say you can use four times as much of the original texture do you mean just replicating the original texture 4 times over a larger canvas?

 

Yeah, that's what I meant by that part. For tree bark for example: The texture might be fine, it just might be stretched too much over the mesh. Replicate it four times and throw it in a image size with twice the width and height and it removes some of the bluryness from the tree.

 

how does qarl do it so effectively?

 

Qarl's better textures tended to be completely new (he'd find textures either online or take them himself I believe, then edit them to work correctly on the mesh)

[kman420]

I hope qarl makes a texture pack for Skyrim sooo badly :P

 

No one seems to beable to make such great textures that dont change the original color and feel of the game as qarl does.

 

And we need an entire texture pack or its kinda pointless, or we get a hgih res texture right next to a low res texture ingame and it just looks even worse imo.

 

or you get a bunch of different packs that all look different with different techniques used and they dont fit well together

[Ghogiel]

What foolyfooly is saying is on point. Noisey over contrasted textures are not high quality, and more often than not worse than low res vanilla textures.

 

 

I hope qarl makes a texture pack for Skyrim sooo badly :P

 

No one seems to beable to make such great textures that dont change the original color and feel of the game as qarl does.

 

That is the reason why I don't like Qarls so much. Many of his texture are imo too different. I don't rate them all that highly, and you need to use an additional DL to replace the normal maps, which are compressed, meaning they are going to be blokcy, but yet still massive in size. It's a bit of a waste.