Standardized set of materials for use

[Gorre]

The main point of this topic is to provide a sophisticated pack of materials for use by any users in Blender.

Main advantages

• - Speeding up creating of any model
  - Making the graphics look like a set
  - To attract new artsists, by making it easy for people to use and share materials

Requirements

• - Create an universal mesh on which materials can be shown. (semi-done)
  - Create a wiki page or forum's topic with material previews and a .blend file downloads. This shall be discussed below.

So the things we should talk about are, which textures shall be claimed as official and which shall not. In which form shall users post theirs materials and previews (i prefer here, new forums topic). And also, how to handle many differents textures not only for buildings, but also for ground and vehicles.

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I made an illustrating render. It shows one material, which is usually used as cobbelstone. You see, it's not only the ground, that's because i wanted to shown how the material looks on different types of shapes and shadows. However, we shall make a consensus on a default one to let users start making their own as soon as possible.

[MeusH]

There are many nice looking meshes in already-done buildings by dmh_max and G0RR3, however, it would be really better if it was all unified and put into one file ready to attach to Blender.

[Red.xiii]

Excellent idea, and well done for making the effort!

[Yoeri]

I think this is a very good idea, but im still very inexperienced with texturing, and there doesn't seem to be a simple tutorial for this

[Alltaken]

I think this is a very good idea, but im still very inexperienced with texturing, and there doesn't seem to be a simple tutorial for this

Most of the textures will be created by Myself, Gorre and Dmh_mac i would expect.

they will then be available for others to download (so that you don't need to learn texturing at all). just select the materials for your object and viola.

however once you get experienced, you can then help contribute to the materials available.

i hope to turn this into a comprihensive material library.

Alltaken

[Yoeri]

Most of the textures will be created by Myself, Gorre and Dmh_mac i would expect.

they will then be available for others to download (so that you don't need to learn texturing at all). just select the materials for your object and viola.

however once you get experienced, you can then help contribute to the materials available.

i hope to turn this into a comprihensive material library.

Alltaken

Well, that's what i mean with being inexperienced with. I can only load an image, and apply that material to a mesh (object). Does anyone know where I can learn more about texturing?

[Alltaken]

http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

everything you need (almost) can be found through here.

http://blender.org/cms/Materials.247.0.html
http://blender.org/cms/Model_Material_Light.397.0.html

Alltaken

[Yoeri]

dôh, I've been searching on that site for ages , but I never saw those tutorials thank you

[Gorre]

The best way how to learn how to make materials in additional to reading tutorials is to download one, changing some of its atributes and see how its affecting it.

[Brianetta]

just select the materials for your object and viola.

I can't play strings, I'm more of a woodwind player.

Sorry... that was really bad.

[Jango]

and me brass.

seriously... that picture by GORR3 rose a question within my mind.. could someone model a cathedral? you know, one of the gothic types like Notre Dame or something... wouldn't that be fantastic!

[Gorre]

(doing that right now)

[Brianetta]

Cathedrals definitely shouldn't pop up and vanish like the rest of TT's buildings.

[Gorre]

Sure it shouldn't, but this is not right place to discuss it, I'm going to make a topic about a flag system which would make this possible as soon as time allows it.

[Alltaken]

hey GORR3 can we start working on this?

a standardised materials set IMO is looking more and more important the further we get into it.

i already havea tonne of materials for the landscapes. but we are going to start needing things for bricks etc...

i will set upa wiki page, and start listing materials we need. we can then start filling the orders.

anyone else interested in getting into it, then feel free

Alltaken

[Gorre]

I'm of course ready, but it doesnt depend on me, we havent decided yet how to share our materials (but wiki is the probablity).

[Alltaken]

what kind of textures do people want for buildings?

rooves
shingle roofs, corrugated iron, hay roof.

walls
bricks, weather boards, concrete, stone, marble, log.

pavement.
brick, concrete, ashfelt, tiles, dirt.

Vehicles
Metal (variety of finishes/colours)

Ground
temperate, tropical, dirt, snow, arctic, desert. city grass

Walls/fences
Concrete, stone, wood, metal, retaining-concrete.
wood picket (few varieties), wood solid, stone, wire

Anything else. keep suggesting and i will add it to a list.

Alltaken

[Yoeri]

and how about textures for vehicles?

[Alltaken]

what type of textures?

things like metal finishes? colours?
or things like advertising and other image based textures.

we will try to sort out everything in our power.

Alltaken

[Gorre]

I'm not sure about these kinds of textures (like advertisement). Well, we might have standartized "Transport Tycoon" and "OpenTTD" textures for use on trailers, but this is really low priority.