Builders: How much would yo pay for high-quality textures?

Builders: How would you pay for high-quality textures?

If you choose "other" please give your opinion below...

Thanks,

The only textures I think I would consider buying now adays are alpha's because I still haven't got my head round photoshop! So I put I make my own but I would pay whatever I thought was reasonable for the difficultly of alpha textures..

I never buy textures. I always make my own.

I do not do much building but I would buy them and pay handsomely for them. They are hard to make and take special skills. They make things look good. I think there should be more of them in SL and more flexible component building kits to try to diversify the building look in SL, which tends toward the same few cliches.

I've been dying for a variety of high-quality, high-resolution, tileable textures for buildings. Specifically wood, stone, concrete, steel, and glass.

LF

Well, by high resolution, you mean 512 max, right? I try to NEVER upload 1024 unless totally unavoidable, for lag reasons.

make my own

I call you... =]

And raise you one...


By the way: Nice polished wood!

nice textures, Foolish

I'd certainly buy high quality textures with *usable* permissions.

Thanks, They were fun to build.

The clay is a highly modified photo of a roof, made to tile seamlessly. The iron is from a series I'm selling. Don't know why, but I like ironwork. It always looks so good when pasted onto a prim.

The trick on tiled textures is to make them look like they are not tiled...

A patch of brightness or color in a texture will draw the eye and ruin the effect, making even a good wrap-around tile useless.

That's a given. Don't too hard on people who set them wrong. I had some sever trouble understanding permissions myself at first. I figure that any I sell are set to modify and copy, buy not share/sell. At least it's working for everyone who's bought them so far...

When I do buy textures I buy them in packs, so if I only wanted one texture in that pack I sort of paid 300 for it, but I got nine more textures anyway. I tihnk if I saw a 100 price tag on one texture I would scoff and walk away. Its all about making me think I am getting enough for my money.

NO TRANSFER TEXTURES! Well thats useless. I build prefabs and custom jobs. I'd just end up with a bunch of no transfer houses. And I very rarely build anything for myself and even if I did I wouldn't want it no transfer.

To be honest, I agree with you. It would seem that texture sales would be about longterm volume business with little need for upkeep.

Put textures in vendor, set vendor out, wait for sales. Repeat.

I mean, really... It's not like textures need tech support unless I foul up the permissions...

Seconded. If you're selling building textures, you MUST make them transferrable, otherwise they're essentially useless for 90% of your clientele.

LF

Well, the info I just looked at says the same thing.

All right, I'll reset it to allow transfer. What bothers me is it seemed to work the other way. A bug, perhaps?

Maybe you should charge MORE for a low-rez texture that looks good!

Big textures are a huge source of lag for some people. If you have a slow connection, low-mem graphics card or small cache, big textures can drag your system to its knees. So really good low bitcount textures are valuable.

When I was still young and didn't know better I bought a no transfer texture and put it on a house. The house was no transfer and I took that damn thing apart and looked for whatever was keeping me from transfering. I spent hours trying to figure out what I did wrong, when someone suggested it might be the texture. And it was. I also bought a no copy texture before...sigh...so now I mostly make my own, and sometimes I buy them but I check them first now.

Well, it's fixed now. I reset all of the textures and replaced the vendors. Should work fine...

I also contacted my customers and corrected the issue.

nontransferable textures should be allowed to be sold with builds. once a player withought that texture messes with the building's texture options the texture is permanently lost to the new owners building anyway.

so this is something serious to think about LL, to encourage players to work hard on textures, which in my opinion is the most time consuming aspect of making a unique building.

i would pay 100s of L$ for well made textures. as a proficient texturer, and 3d modeler, i know the amount of work that goes into creating a tileable texture that doesn't look tiled at first glance.

foolish, for the time being i wouldn't make my textures transferable. the texture economy is a wasted effort because eventually your textures will be passed around in folders by other users.

what i can suggest is creating a special license agreement with players who wish to buy your textures for building transfer purposes and deal with players on individual basis to arrange a sale. until LL makes textures permissions into something sustainable as a commercial enterprise, you will not make a worthwhile income from this.

good textures are worth dollars, not pennies. i encourage people to recognize the hard work it takes to make a clay texture like that (if it doesn indeed work and doesn't look tiled on first glance), much much more than it takes to make a couple of triangular prisms and slapping that on a texture.

another note foolish, i think 25 for a good tiling texture might be really undercutting.

a good tiling texture, as you probably already know, from seeing your buildings, can be articulated, but needs to be fairly homogenous and evenly lit to lok untiled across a large surface. also it need to be perfectly aligned, sometimes not easy from photosourcing. most of the textures that one buys for 25 L$ in SL are pretty worthless for tiling, leaving little variety for truly tileable textures.

i would pay 100 L$ or even more for very well done high resolution masonry, stone, rock, and concrete.

But you may be an exception to the rule. In addition, many people would byu the less expensive textures that look worse rather than pay.

That's life, I guess...

True. Most people don't even notice the difference. If you aren't really into texturing then you don't look at it with the same eyes as someone who cares.