Hi, I am trying to make my own textures.
I can take/find/make a picture put it on my model get it into unity, and that is no problem at all.
My problem is: How to make a real nice texture? How do I create/design the texture to look great?
I am looking for a book, tutorials anything that explains how to MAKE proffesional textures.
There are a million tutorials on how to create textures. Just use google. Must haves: Photoshop skills & artistic skills. If you suck at drawing or photoshop you won’t make great textures :). If that is the case: Find someone who can make amazing textures and team up
My 2 cents:
Pick one graphical style as a target and stick to it. Don’t change your style because you found a cool new photoshop filter. Else you will never be done
For something like a ground texture: Find a nice photo from CGtextures.com. Take the part you need and remove the rest. For example some stones. Now manipulate that photo OR draw over the photo.
Use the offset filter in photoshop to make the texture tileable.
Apply the texture to the ground UV unwrap (if applicable).
Paint decals/details to make every piece of the texture a bit different.
This way you can make a simple tile-able texture look good on, for example, a ground mesh/plane.
