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SimCity 4 General Discussion and Tutorials => Tips, Tricks and Tutorials => Tutorials on Custom Content Creation => Topic started by: swi21 on February 14, 2007, 02:43:48 AM

Title: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: swi21 on February 14, 2007, 02:43:48 AM
I start this topic just in order to bring you a great tool i found a few weeks ago and tried first time last week.. It's an excellent tool to make tilling custom textures for BATs and other... It's called Bricks'n'tiles and  >>HERE<< (http://www.3d-rekonstruktionen.de/bricksntiles/download/setup.zip)  you can download it!

Here's a preview of it

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg392.imageshack.us%2Fimg392%2F3492%2Fbrickstilesprevdy5.jpg&hash=f53c1e7cdd5c4c7bb650bf3c434511e2ebbc30b7)


I can't remember if someone found that before but i am convinced that this can help a lot, you BAT creators!
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: praiodan on February 14, 2007, 04:25:06 AM
Nikos, this program looks great (on first view, I don't have the time now to test it out unfortuatly  &Thk/( ) and it should help to make BATs look even more individually. Thanks for bringing this to the community's attention  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: kwakelaar on February 14, 2007, 01:40:41 PM
I have just downloaded and will try it out later. Thanks for the link.
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: swi21 on February 14, 2007, 01:43:42 PM
I did the tiled roof for the Zappeion with it, the result is quite good, at least i'm very satisfyed.. It took time to find an acceptable texture.. and this one work pretty good!
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: Cali on February 14, 2007, 01:56:44 PM
ok ,quick question, if this is the right place, how can i convert jpeg images so they can be available in gmax?
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: jestarr on February 14, 2007, 03:45:15 PM
Google for Irfanview.  It can convert most types of graphic files to any other format.
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: vester on February 14, 2007, 04:07:46 PM
Even though I use PhotoShop, I still use IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) to do a lot of the more simpler functions, such as viewing, converting, cropping, rotating and resizing ect.
With the quality setting set to 50 % (jpg) in both program, the files save with IrfanView, are smaller.
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: Cali on February 14, 2007, 04:34:38 PM
thanks guys. i'll get right on it :)
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: mattb325 on February 14, 2007, 08:39:02 PM
Thankyou swi. This looks very good...I can finally drag out the digital camera that's languishing in my hall cupboard :)
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: JBSimio on February 20, 2007, 11:40:22 AM
This looks very helpful... but I have a quick question before I take forever to DL it, Swi.  Is this dependant on an internet connection?  Last time I tried to get something similar... I downloaded it to my flash drive to install at home but couldn't use it because I have no internet at my house.  I only ask because the opening screen looks very similar.

Jon
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: swi21 on February 20, 2007, 12:50:44 PM
Nope it's a small and simple utility, you download and install it.. no internet connexion required.. and it's free... (you don't even need to give your email for newsletters and spam crap...)
Title: Re: Texturing tools and libraries
Post by: JBSimio on February 22, 2007, 06:06:30 AM
Great!  I picked it up yesterday... I'll have a go at it this weekend.  Thanks!

JB
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