The dark side of game texturing
By:  David Franson.
Publisher: Premier Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Computer games -- Programming.; Color comuter graphics.; Texture (Art)
Notes: Accompanied by CD-ROM that includes: chapter files and figures from the book; Adobe Acrobat Reader 5; demo of Adobe Photoshop CS; Photoshop tutorial; and hundreds of royalty-free texture images.

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Table of contents: title: Texturing Basics; title: Types of Textures; title: Seamlessly Tiling Textures; title: Randomly Tileable Sets; title: Decals; title: Alpha Transparency-Based Textures; title: U-V Based Textures; title: Bump and Displacement Maps; title: Animated Textures; title: Base Texture Images; title: Finding Texture Images; title: Texture File Creation in Photoshop; title: Cover Art; title: Creating Textures in Photoshop; title: Using 3D Models; title: Setting Up Textures for a Game; title: Resize and Palettize; title: Viewing Your Textures; title: Final Advice on Texture Creation; title: Nasty Decals; title: File Setup for Decals; title: Blast Marks; title: Bullet Holes; title: Bullet Holes on Metal; title: Bullet Holes on Cement; title: Blood Splats; title: Pipes; title: Basic Metal Pipes; title: Bent Pipes; title: Rivets and Screws; title: Peeling Paint on Metal; title: Signs; title: Dripping Decal; title: Stamped Metal Sign; title: Wood Sign; title: Sprites; title: Sprite Basics; title: Sprite Decals; title: Making a Lightning Bolt Sprite; title: Sprite Animations; title: Using ImageReady to View Animations; title: Creating an Explosion; title: Creating a Fire Sprite in Photoshop; title: Animating the Fire Sprite in ImageReady; title: Military Textures; title: Metal Panels; title: Base Metal Texture from Scratch; title: Base Metal Texture from Photo; title: Explosives Crate; title: Munitions Crates with Canvas Cover; title: RPG-7 Grenade Launcher; title: Slums; title: Brick Walls; title: Basic Brick Wall; title: Slum Wall Example; title: Rusty Metal; title: Rusty Oil Drum; title: Medieval/Fantasy Textures; title: Stone Walls/Floors; title: Medieval Castle Stone Wall, Using Photos; title: Medieval Castle Stone Wall II; title: Castle Door; title: Draconis; title: Dragon's Eye; title: Dragon's Tooth; title: Dragon's Skin; title: Fiery Text Using the Black Body Palette; title: Wizard's Orb; title: Planetary Textures; title: Scorched Earth; title: Hot Lava; title: Hot Lava 2, or Boiling Acid; title: Cooled Lava; title: Mars Rock; title: Mars/Lunar Surface Using NASA Planetary Data System Image Maps; title: Enhancing the Map: Creating Your Own Custom Shader; title: Polaris; title: Sci-Fi Textures; title: Spaceship Deck; title: Spaceship Deck with Caution Lines; title: More Caution Line-Based Textures; title: Warp Core Control Center; title: Sci-Fi Wall Texture; title: A 2D Graphics Primer; title: Granularity and Aliasing; title: RGB Color Depth; title: The Color Palette; title: RGB Color Channels; title: Video Memory; title: Other Color Modes; title: CMYK; title: Grayscale; title: LAB; title: File Formats; title: PSD; title: BMP; title: JPEG; title: PCX; title: PNG; title: TGA; title: TIFF; title: Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts; title: Texturing Sites; title: Digital Art; title: Eyeball Design; title: GR Site's Absolute Archive; title: Mars Global Surveyor Image Gallery; title: NASA Planetary Data System; title: Ransom Active; title: Shane Caudle's Web Site; title: Undulation; title: Wasted Youth; title: Map/Mod/Level Design; title: 3D Map Realm; title: Modpages; title: Planet Half-Life, Planet Quake, and Planet Unreal; title: UnrealFiles; title: Unrealized; title: Valve ERC; title: Graphics Software; title: Adobe Systems Incorporated; title: Jasc Software; title: Graphics Hardware; title: ATI Technologies; title: nVidia; title: Wacom; title: General Gaming and Information; title: Blue's News; title: ClassicGaming; title: Gamasutra; title: GameDev.Net; title: Game Development Search Engine; title: Game Developers Conference; title: Game Developer Magazine; title: GarageGames; title: Premier Press Books; title: Xtreme Games, LLC.