First of all buying a camera just to use for textures is a bad deal, make sure it will fit other purposes, or that you don't buy something too expensive. I'm not really an expert in cameras, but I’ll try to give you some advice on what to buy. So since we are talking about photos, the first thing you will need is a camera. The trend nowadays is to use photo based textures, which are textures that use a photo as a base, and then are hand edited in image editing programs to achieve a better effect. This is where custom textures come in, besides giving more possibilities to the designer it also increases its quality and value, since custom textures show that you actually put some effort on your creation. I'm not going to discuss any techniques to achieve certain effects, after all this is not a tutorial, but I’ll try to give you a step by step guide of what you should do to get nice textures in your maps.Įvery level designer faces the same problem at some stage of his/her work, which is not having the right texture for what is required. This article is meant to explain the theory behind creating custom textures for your maps.
