Good blender texturing tutorial?

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#1

Hi,

I’m currently following this tutorial:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Using_Textures

It’s in pretty sad shape at the moment, many images are missing and the ones that are there are often not very helpful. I kind of need a better tutorial to learn this.

Thanks! I’m going to continue on and skip texturing for the moment…I hope.

#2

Start with the Wiki Manual: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Textures

Richard

#3

The tutorial is not intended to teach you texturing alone, instead it covers only a specific aspect.But it would be very important for me to know what you would have expected from it.

Originally I wanted to translate the concepts from “Texturing for Dummies”, which I have linked at the top of the page, the page doesn’t make real sense without reading that first.

A more extensive tutorial at “Noob to Pro” is really needed, but I haven’t got time yet, the whole section about materials is lacking a great deal.

But every feedback counts and can help to improve it.

#4

If you need anything not related to logic or python scripting it would be here…

http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

Don’t fall in.

#5

Alrighty, have the wiki manual and the gryllus site loaded up.

I saw ‘texturing for dummies’ and I assumed it was a link to a pay-for book, sorry.

I had some issues with getting through it, but I did successfully get through the tutorials, it just took me quite awhile. Some parts of the tutorial were vague, and on the translucency map I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the light to shine through the panel.

Thanks for the resources! I really appreciate it, and SoylentGreen, thank you for writing that part of the tutorial! I really do appreciate your time, and didn’t mean to gripe as hard as I did about it.

#6

It would be really nice if you could give me detailed feedback on the article, you can simply write on the discussion page.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Using_Textures

I will then go and try to improve it, this is the way the articles can improve and be more helpful. I will right now clarify the part about “Texturing for Dummies”. If you could tell me for example where you had difficulties with the translucency map, I can include that in the article.

Regards

#7

there is also a very good intro to texturing
at this site

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Materials/BSoD

read it carefully there are lot’s of littel tricks around

but it’s fun to learn

now this does not include nodes

Hope it helps

Salutations