HI! I'm Freeman and I'm creating a fully open source texture library composed of base materials that you can use as they are or modify to create more unique and complex ones. I currently have:
-Wood
-Concrete
-Steel
-Iron
-Copper
-A paint overlay to apply over any other material.
I would like to make at least 4 or 5 more for the first release. What base materials would be useful for you?
Boost are really appreciated.
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@chloethecartographer Thank you a lot for taking the time to give me some feedback! If you don't mind and because my English is not the best yet, could you specify if you refer to "simple" paper or the painted paper you put over walls?
More people is asking for fabrics and I'm taking note of the ones requested. They will need some work, cause i want them fully configurable, but you can count with them for the next release.
Thank you again!
@FarmingWarMech OMG thank you SO much! I spend more time that i would like to say working on the procedural knot/circles of the wood and they are REALLY fractal. I'l work on making wood extremely configurable without needing to know a lot about nodes.
These are not meant to be photo realistic, but I'm studying each material to understand what makes them unique, how the light behave etc.
I'm trying to achieve invisible repetition so balancing detail is hard some times 😅
@pseudoriemann Almost everyone is asking for cloths, fibers and leather, so I'm almost sure the second release will be centered on this. I want to create a system that is powerful and fully configurable for the users, so they can, for example, create their own color and patterns for them and and that would delay the first release too much, but you can count on them for the near future!
Thank you so much for the feedback!
@YoSoyFreeman Awesome - I know nothing about material authoring so I am very much looking forward to this!
If you are still looking for more hard surface suggestions for the first pack, I would personally also find useful: Tree bark, bricks, ground/earth, rock, perhaps marble
This kind of editable things are usually made with substance, which is incredible expensive. I use #MaterialMaker , which is fully free and open source, so you will not have any troubles to be able to edit them.
Suggestions are never bad! seems like people is kind of interesting in the library so im just saving any suggestion right now and later will se what ones i can do faster for the first release.
Thank you for your support, i really appreciate it!
Indoor:
- White tiles
- Generic carpet
Nature/Terrain:
- Dirt
- Grass
- Forest floor (Leaves and small sticks)
Outdoor:
- Sheet metal (for tin roofs)
- Asphalte
- Bricks
Tiles seems like a good idea, and I can make the color configurable and maybe some things like the how uneven they are.
Carpets sounds a good addition for next release, which will be basically fibers/cloths/leather that i hope to make pretty configurable.
Nature and terrain will come later, cause i still to find a good way to generate rock formations that looks natural and is scalable for other surfaces.
I can definitely make sheet metal roofs/sheets. Count on them.
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Asphalt sounds perfect for this release. You'll have it. 😃
Making good bricks and not just something that looks kind of like brick may go for the next release too, cause again i want a "Brick wall generator" and not a brick wall. It will be kind of cool. I already worked with that concept in the past.
Thank you so much for your feedback!
@fell Hi! I been thinking about creating the metal sheet shape as a normal map that you can use as a detail texture with any other metal texture, so you are not limited to one metal sheet for the whole game. How you see it in terms of user friendlyness?
good thing about this is you could use any combination of metal, the classic curved shape and the paint you like to create exponentially more combinations.
Yeah, rubber sounds like a perfect fit for this first release. Thank you!
I appreciate your kind words so much! Somebody else also asked for glass, is a bit tricky and will need some time to figure it out. I'll providing Godot materials by default so i can tweak that to have so plug and play glass. Broken glass is more complicated cause it breaks in a really specific way that i want to recreate fully if i manage to.
Attached: 4 images Hi there! I' been working all day trying to make a glass material that does not need refraction so it looks great with most engines and games. I wanted to avoid the classic look in which you don't see nothing unless there is some specific light causing strong reflections. There is A LOT of subtle detail, so it does not disappear even in a fully white room. You should be able to see the details if you look for them. #GameDev #indiedev #MaterialMaker #Opensource
@YoSoyFreeman
Asphalt
Marble
Glass? (That's maybe not viable since it is so specific to the use case but a generic one for drop-in testing would be nice)
It's hard to come up with more, you've covered a lot of good ones and they look great!
@YoSoyFreeman Sounds great!
Though even just the classic "very faint blue tint"-style glass would work, just any sort of good placeholder material as a drop-in will help make the pack more complete.
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