$12256 / $11500
I'd like to start working on adding some more textures, but I need some info from folks (particularly 3D artists) who are actually looking to use those textures. At the moment, OGA is way short of cgtextures in terms of the amount of content we have available, but I think we have an opportunity to expand if we work at it.
So, I need to know the following:
I realize not everyone is going to agree on the answers to these questions, so I'd like to get a general feel from the community as far as what's needed, texture-wise. :)
Bart
What would be really nice, too, is to have coherent texture packs. I'm not talking about sorting them like "15 grass textures and 20 concrete textures", but rather have groups of textures that work well together, textures that share attributes like style, brightness, colors... e.g. : a brick wall with a matching floor and ceiling, or a brick wall with matching door and window textures. Perhaps even packs you can model a whole scene with. Could the Art Collections be used to such effect?
Arikel
There could be more grass billboard textures. There are grass textures everywhere but clearly licensed grass billboard textures are seldom. A whole "Billboard" texture category would be even nicer.
Silly question... what are billboard textures? :)
My fault.
Billboards are specifically images that are always oriented facing the eye. Billboard rendering is used for rendering plants, crops, corn, grass, clouds, particles and impostors from a side-view. (impostors = pre-rendered image of geometry replacing the actual geometry for lower level of detail)
But that kind of "side-view" textures are useful for plant rendering even when not using that very technique.
Previously it was a popular technique for rendering pre-rendered 3d models (sprites) in 3d space like in the old days of wolfenstein, doom I&II and Duke Nukem 3D.
Best try image-googling: grass billboard texture
Or: grass rendering
OGA has some by yughues
http://opengameart.org/content/grass-pack-02 (and 01)
Extracting them and putting them up could be a start.