Textures sold inworld

i have been making textures, and was thinking of selling them.

WHAT do you want to see sold in SL that you either have a hard time finding, or want a variety of?

Multipart seamless stone that fit together in various combination so as to make it look like several prims together don't have that tiled look.

Circular stained glass textures that can also be used on the 0 or 2 face of cylinders that have been path cut by 1/2 (a semi circle). In otherwords, some kind of cross border along the center of the texture going up/down and left/right. I have some builds with both round and 1/2 circle stained glass windows...

Roof tile textures of varying repeats.

Spanish / southwest outdoor tile textures in greens, blues, purples, yellows, reds and white with a weathered /faded look. All pastel type colors.

Hanging moss / vines textures with small flowers or seed pods for outside wall tops and sides of my southwest builds.

Most of my builds allow for the texture color to be changed by an integrated texture control system, so black & white / grayscale textures work well for me.

Window reflection textures (non-alpha) - usually I just use RL photos of the sky with clouds or whatever and set the alpha with the same texture control system and a window tint control system.

i'm not sure what i want but here is yours

Note that the competition might be reading this thread, so by the time you get the textures that can't be found made they might already be in the stores elsewhere.

too late

you mean gravel, or slate?

i have sent you a sample of what i hope you are wanting in regards to style and color. it has MUCH work to do, including creating the original background. let me know.

LMAO!

i still say that bathroom is so nasty! LOL

that's okay. i'm not trying to compete, i'm trying to create and make people happy.

there you go.

i love the fabric textures at twisted thorn, but would like to see more in that style. esp curtain and drape textures. And much less of the type of fabric texture that was clearly made in photoshop and then just had the color changed. Calling something fabric doesnt actually make it so lol.

And please please label the textures with something other than a number!

If you make windows, make sure they're a complete set, e.g., both opaque and semi-transparent, for both indoors and outdoors if you use blinds/curtains as part of the art.

Fabric..... seamless fabric... ; )

It looks great!

The main thing I would like, variety-wise, is texture sets wherein all the design options are offered in both window (open), window (closed/shuttered/etc), door and plain wall.

Far too many sets that I've bought inworld have three or four wall options - let's say a plain wall, a wall with a top border, a wall with a bottom border, and a wall with both borders - but the door textures are only available on the plain wall, or the plain wall and top border wall. Same with the windows.

I have a really great beach hut set that comes in two colours, but so far it's frustrated every effort I've made to create a beach hut to my liking with it, either because the outer windows come in one colour and the matching inner windows only come in the other. Or, there's a double outer door with a window beside it on one texture, but the matching inner double door (on both colours) doesn't have ANY window. And so on and so forth.

As great as these textrue sets look on the surface, they are all garbage if a door or a window is involved or have any transparency in them.. The people selling these never tell you how horrible they look when they are applied to a prim. Alpha Walls are just plain evil, and they will ruin any build because other transparencies will fight for Dominance on your viewer and make them flicker or sort wrong..

It is much better if you take an extra few prims, make a wall then add a top and bottom Border, use Window inserts with frames and also Doors with frames. This way all the trim is 3-d and will really pop as well.

The Quality difference is like night and day. If you need to save prims by using these kind of textures, that is understood.. but know that people will laugh at your build..lol

It is better to build smaller and more detailed than large and sloppy looking.


besides that.. the options are also endless so if you want a texture set that covers all possible scenarios of trim and doors etc, you will need to get one of those rare 999 Packs.

harder said than done.. most textures you get at your big stores are copy paste tourist vacation photos of a wall that then gets bundled in a 10 pack of other tourist photos... and called a texture pack.


I have been experimenting with making textures that tile at multiple intervals so you can stagger the offsets but still have everything seamless. I managed to do do this with cracked plaster, but stone walls are harder. Another problem with that is.. are you willing to spend 500-1000L for one texture? They are a ton of work and i can spend a day on one stone wall to make it seamless, nice and not mechanical looking. Also there really is very little use for a stone texture that goes on for ever without another architectural detail breaking it up, unless it is a very large building.

i could never have a bathroom that small in my house myself..if kids are falling in the toilets for lack of room what chance would we have

I do need to save prims, yes. The builds that I make and sell are as low-prim as I can get them. And enough people find them non-hilarious enough to want to buy them

your 11 prim fireplace is nice and popular

One has to pick an audience. There's nothing wrong with either approach, provided the right customer is evaluating it. I've taken an otherwise fantastic build (which was thankfully mod) and added real windows to replace the alpha windows. Really allowed me to enjoy the structure.

that is almost more fun than building yourself.. hacking up a prefab and making it look better

Yep, the most important thing is to have a complete matching set. I have numerous textures from the huge textures place that is prominent in SL and almost every set that i bought from them was missing options in the set. Most of the time you don't notice this issue when buying the set only when applying it to the build. Very frustrating as a builder.

Better fabrics.

Accessories for making clothes/shoes. (Buttons, maybe. Unique ones. 1 per texture)

I'm always hearing people ask for building parts like a door, of various kinds.

Things you see in the real world.

We own several of Skell's sky boxes. We just love them. Low prim and very detailed in the textures. X showed me one just last nite and I loved the textures on it and in it.

I do also agree with the need for more seamless fabric textures.

Bec