Textures

This is a selected list of articles and tutorials about textures.
Please see the category Textures for a full list of articles for this topic.

This page contains articles and links related to making/importing textures, editing .mtr files and others related to the mod.

Making Textures

• Texture Creation - Basic Tutorial
• DDS creation
• How to add Textures to The Dark Mod -- (Overall Information and Guides)
• Texture Guidelines -- (Info on our hi-res repository, and what sizes to use for textures)
• Texture Folder Structure -- (Where to save new textures)
• Basic Texture Information: http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Texturing
• Common Texture Mistakes
• Texture Sources -- (Good places to find source textures and photos)
• How to give Textures a nice Glow

Diffusemaps

• Advanced Tips for Creating Diffusemaps
• Remove Shadows in Source Images

Normalmaps

• Normalmaps, How to Make Good Ones
• No more Heightmaps -- (Basic info for turning a heightmap into a normalmap)
• Wall Texture Tutorial -- (How to make good normalmaps with Maya)
• Creating Textures with Normals out of Models -- (More info on using modeling software to make normalmaps)
• Inverse Normalmaps -- (A way to check if your normalmaps are correct)
• Inverting Normalmaps -- (How to fix them if they aren't correct)

Material Files

(Material files tell D3 what to do with your texture images. Without one, your texture will not work)

• Basic Material File -- (How to get a new texture in game)
• Surface Types -- (How to tell the engine whether your surface is stone, wood, grass, etc)
• Making Semi-transparent textures
• Detail Textures
• Virtual Ambient Light Textures -- (Information about the required ambient stages of materials)

Textures for Models

• Creating Multiple Skins For A Model -- (How to swap different textures on the same model)
• DrVertexBlend (tutorial) --(How to create smooth transitions between textures: Vertex Blending)
• Turning Shadows Off -- (How to turn shadows off to varying degrees)

Other

• Fast Re-Texturing of your Map
• Grey Border Around Transparent GUI -- (sometimes transparent .tgas have an unwanted grey border)
• How To Make Your Own Visportal-texture