Builders what textures

Do you need?
Since the ban on gambling I have had to push up my schedule drastically; no more sploder income to pay the rent, player not owner. I'm trying to put together several texture packs to sell, but since I usually only make textures as I need them I'm not sure what textures people may need. Keep in mind I am best at seamless structural textures, but what sort of texture packs should I be making?

Manstan

I thought about this a long time ago and when I researched, there are so many free textures available and some well established people that have wall to wall textures the choices are really endless and at little or no cost at all.

Along with that you have your ripp off idiots who pick up all the free textures and then sell them for 10L$ in a small mall.

There is however, one bit of advice I would give, there is a great shortage of speciality textures, I will not going to go into any great detail here but IM in world and perhaps I can show you some examples and talk more.

I'd like to see a comprehensive range of ordinary brick, stone, stucco, siding, paving, concrete, roof tiles, doors, etc, in different colours and styles. Not some technicolor marvel that I would never use!

How about interior walls in loads of different textured paint colours and wallpapers, with skirting board (kickboard). I've done some of these and I like how they look!

Carpeting in a range of colours and textures. Again I have made some of these.

Something for the more intricate details: window sills, end eaves of roofs, decorated stonework, brickwork, and woodwork.

These may not be your thing (!): door frames, window frames, railings, and fences, using transparent cut-outs.

For me simplicity, variety, and quality is the key to realistic building textures. I would willingly buy such sets!

I do a lot of building and find the textures in world suck for 1 reason, there isnt any "sets" out there. You can find a million brick textures but if you want to build a brick building you have to make all the textures yourself with the brick as a base. I suggest making texture sets that have 1 base texture such as brick and then you need to compleat the set with windows doors trims etc that all match the base brick. There is always places that sell texture sets but Marble means 15 different marbles and nothing to go with them.

So where do you find all these quality free and cheap textures? Most of the ones I find are rip-offs (as you say), are poor quality, or are a style that I could not imagine in a building in 1st or 2nd life!

I completely agree.

Yes agreed, there are few toning sets...plain wood, planks, bricks, walls, roof tiles etc all made to work together, would save hours of trying to tint to match or search for things that look nice in a complete build together.

OH yes and another one...door and window sets that look like theyre meant to be together

That arnt for such speciality builds like star trek gen2 builds or a demon castle...normal everyday stuff...ok thats it i hope )
Sorry for the multiple posts but its been a hectic day and my brain is suffering

What I find myself buying the most of are themed texture packs. Having a cool wall texture is great, but there is more to a build than just walls and you can only do so much with one texture. A good texture artist creates a pack with mind towards a wall texture, floor and ceiling textures, roof textures, railings, windows, etc...

Unusual textures that can't be found with Google. Imagine what roleplayers may want to build and can't find among all those clean brickwallmarblestucco textures.

Several people who bought my Dungeon Texture Pack told me that they searched forever for a padded cell wall texture. Things like that... dirty, gritty tile walls and floors for public toilets come to mind. Or a bloodstained cement floor for a mad scientist lab, vampire lair etc. Walls for an urban alley, covered with graffiti. SF-themed stuff... think Riddley Scott, not stainless steel. Creepy organic textures, H.R. Giger comes to mind. Sewers, rusty boiler rooms, lava seas... everything but clean & shiny.

That would be nice... a texture pack for a house, where all the doorframes, floors, walls (exterior and interior) complement each other.

I am always looking for better Window, walls and trim, and roads or paths

Another idea (so many business ideas, so little time & energy)... once you have an unusual texture collection, why not use these textures to create unusual prefab homes. Small borg cubes as sky boxes. An alien lair (R. Scott & Giger again). A desecrated chapel. A crypt with some coffins. An old, rusty railway car. Whatever new land owners might find cool... again, gritty instead of shiny. Buy some full perm sex poseballs and throw them in as a bonus, advertise and it'll sell.

I like buying window textures and cabinet textures. I would realllllly like some more cabinet textures that have matching cabinet face and the plain matching wood. But I am a cheapskate and won't pay the ridiculous prices most texture creators want (like $350 for a set of 10? I don't think so!!!!).

I am always looking for nice suede, leather, fabriccy textures that are SEAMLESS. If you want to IM me inworld, I can show you a set of textures that I would love to get in a tilable version...

also, I hope you are planning to list this stuff on SLEX, that's a great place to sell w/out a lot of overhead expenses.

in response to the person wondering about freebie textures, New Citizens Inc. and the Gnubie Store are great freebie/$1L places that offers several sets of textures, some of them aren't great but there are some good ones in there.

Actually... one thing sorely lacking, or I am utterly blind, are good seamless textures for exotic fabrics (i.e. Asian, Medieval, Victorian etc.).

I'd say non-US structural textures so decent walls, roofs, floors, ceilings ( especially ceilings ), internal walls for non-US style buildings.

"Or a bloodstained cement floor for a mad scientist lab, vampire lair etc." Oh I have a lot of these, I'm a Silent hill, Resident evil fan. Nothing like a bloody drag stain on floor tiles O.O

So what everyone wants is my textures, as I said I make textures as I need them. As in I have a Poser subway with a few trashy textures, I started retextureing it like the subway in SH3. So what you would want would be all the textures I used in a pack. Or all the textures I made for the Victorian sitting room. And so on.

"I hope you are planning to list this stuff on SLEX" If what I had on the slx was selling I wouldn't be trying to make so many texture packs.
And I set my texture prices by how complex the texture is. As in I have 2 trailor side textures one I'd sell for 1L, the other would be about 150L ; there is a window with shutters and a storm window.

Look around, see what the others don't have. Go from there.


And as much as I love TRU, there is a lot of stuff I could use that they don't sell

Thanks, I'll look.

I've been looking for "distressed" furniture textures. That is, facades of furniture left in an attic or basement for a few decades so they're all cracked and peeling.

Reusing these things was a fad for a while in interior design, dying out a bit now, but I still like it. Then there's "shabby chic" where it's stained off-white but the distressing still shows through.

I don't have a clue how to find or make textures like that. --KC

Apparently there's a lack of good window textures (with "open" and "closed" versions).

There was a lack when I found I had to make my own, and I still get asked about them because people are struggling to find Good Enough Windows.

Walls with windows, with both open and closed options, and matching exterior walls. I am not a fan of one-way windows or windows that don't match the exterior structure.