Anyone interested?

remus · 28 Mar 2008, 12:14

Im thinking of downloading loads of jpg textures and importing them into SU. Not so much for personal benefit, just so i could share them, as i find it really tedious havign to import jpg textures every time i want to use something other than basic SU stuff.

Id probably split them up in to packs like roof, flora, brick etc. and then post the .skm along with the original jpg (in case anyone wants to use the files for bump maps/clipmaps/normal maps)

So would anyone be interested in such a collection?

p.s. id make sure i scaled all the textures correctly as well, nothing more annoying than a porrly scaled texture.

Gaieus · 28 Mar 2008, 12:20

Remus,

Please, also make sure to post materials created of images that are not copyrighted in any way. Often they are free for personal (or even commercial) use but they cannot be added to other collections or shared elsewhere.

remus · 28 Mar 2008, 13:05

ok, i'll watch out for that.

twharvey · 28 Mar 2008, 15:08

Hi Remus,

I've been thinking about the same thing. I have a collection of old English buildings, mostly churches, and I often find it useful to use elements from one in another model, e.g. roof tiles for a building where I can't easily photograph the roof, but I have a similar one from another building.

Let me know when you start your 3DW collection and I'll make some contributions.

Regards,
Tom

remus · 28 Mar 2008, 15:35

Tom, i was just going to upload them here, and i wasnt aware that you could upload textures to the 3DW

sintra · 28 Mar 2008, 20:55

Hi Remus,

This sounds great, when do you think you will be making them available.

Kind regards

Darren

remus · 28 Mar 2008, 21:42

Well ive just downloaded a load of jpgs. Next step will be to check theyre all ok, do any resizing/touching up in photoshop, rename them all to something more intuitive and then import in to SU. Hopefully before friday, maybe even by the end of the weekend if i ge some spare time.

linea · 28 Mar 2008, 22:30

Great idea Remus, I can contribute too, I have plenty I've photographed/created myself, so no copyright problems

remus · 28 Mar 2008, 23:57

Hmmm, well ive done it, but nearly all the files are bigger than the 4mb upload limit.

Id really like to avoid splitting the files up, so does anyone have any cunning plans?

They're already zipped btw.

Edit: no worries guys, im going to use rapidshare.

remus · 29 Mar 2008, 01:00

There you go, enjoy. BTW the files will becoem inactive after they havent been downloaded for more than 90 days. Can anyone think of a more permanent solution?

juanjo06 · 29 Mar 2008, 02:02

men... that good to share.... try to use massmaterialimport.rb plugin to convert in skp all images that u touch in a folder when u try to import one of them... try it and tell me. do what i did... and them store them in separated compressed folder.

Gaieus · 29 Mar 2008, 07:50

@remus said:

...BTW the files will becoem inactive after they havent been downloaded for more than 90 days. Can anyone think of a more permanent solution?

I'll look into it, Remus. Thanks for the collection!

remus · 29 Mar 2008, 09:43

Juan, the problem with that solution is that none of the textures will be correctly sized, so its a real pain when you need to apply lots of materials if you have to resize them all as you go. Thanks for the pointer though.

Edson · 29 Mar 2008, 10:04

@remus said:

There you go, enjoy. BTW the files will becoem inactive after they havent been downloaded for more than 90 days. Can anyone think of a more permanent solution?

what do you mean exactly? they will become inactive where they are stored? will something similar occur to them in my HD?

remus · 29 Mar 2008, 10:07

The website theyre hosted on deletes any files that havent had a download in 90 days.

They definetly WONT be deleted form your hard drive

juju · 1 Apr 2008, 15:00

@remus said:

Fabric

Flora

Metal

Rock

Groundcover

Wall (interior)

Wood

Wall

There you go, enjoy. BTW the files will becoem inactive after they havent been downloaded for more than 90 days. Can anyone think of a more permanent solution?

I'm hoping Gaieus could host them on the SCF server, I've had endless problems trying to download stuff from Rapidshare when using the free service.

remus · 1 Apr 2008, 15:08

How come juju? whats the problem?

Edson · 1 Apr 2008, 16:24

after you download the first file they make you wait progressively longer periods of time for the next free downloads.

i managed to do it over a period of one and half days.

remus · 1 Apr 2008, 16:34

I'll see if ic an find any alternative hosting, that sounds pretty crap.

sorry guys

Edson · 1 Apr 2008, 16:43

have a look at http://www.4shared.com/ . i have been using it with my students but have no idea how it is to dwld more than one file from it.