Textures [Cycles, off-topic]

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[off-topic alert]

Hello Blenderartists Community!
I recently saw some textures on Poliigon with Diffuse/Gloss/Normals/Reflection maps (I guess?). I don´t have the money for a membership, so I thought “why don´t make them in GIMP?”

:smiley:

Yeah, okay. I´m using InsaneBump, good tool, but there aren´t gloss or reflection maps. But there are occlusion and specular maps. Is it the same?

Thanks all of you beforehand.
NGCHunter2

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they are the same but they are not the same… the difference is minor, but both can be used.
however, creating your own textures wont always give you a good result. keep in mind the textures on poliigon were created by professionals, and often even photoscanned.

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i make my own textures all the time. mostly simple noise textures go a long way for making various maps. this is really an artistic thing.