Texture from photo Created 13 years ago2011-03-26 22:42:35 UTC by The Mad Carrot

Does anyone know how to create a texture from a photo?

I've been Googling and found a programm called Texture Maker. One of its features is Texture Extraction, as demonstrated in these screenshots:So i downloaded the programm, only to find out that it does'nt run on Windows 7.
The last news post was made 5 years ago so i don't this program is still being worked on.

So are there any alternatives of creating a texture from a photo like you see in the screenshots above?

Photoshop does it if you have that.

Yeah, photoshop is definitely the most rad program you'd find for the use, bro.

But it's also the most complicated program ever.

How is that feature called in Photoshop? Perhaps i can find some tutorials.

Ok, it's been over a year since I last used it, but that's totally possible in photoshop. It's not going to be one step, though. IIRC, there is a way of faking 3d in photoshop that does basically the opposite of what that program is doing. It applies perspective, I guess, to a flat image. It's most likely a filter. I bet with a little ingenuity you could apply it "backwards" and "flatten" a bit of an image that has perspective. I'm sensing a lot of tweaking and cleaning involved though.

Did you try running the program in compatibility mode?

If that's all that's happening, you could also use anther rad program called Paint.NET, that also allows you to do sweet 3D layering effects to 'reverse' a perspective image.

Sounds like the same sort of feature, although probably easier to find. Photoshop also changes quite a bit from version to version and suite to suite, idk if it's even in the one you have.

Blitzkrieg, that sounds complicated to me. No way i can figure this out on my own.
Call me nuts but i've pretty much never really used Photoshop actively. Tried it a couple of times, and got lost in the menu's, options, filters and whatnot.

Yeah i tried it in XP compatibility mode. Nothing.

there's a couple of ways of doing it in photoshop. I'll record a quick video for ya - gimme 10 mins.

I recommend you try some compatibility modes bro, because this program is RAD!Was piss easy to do, just align the corners, and you're DONE.

Ran right out of the box, native Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

edit blocked.

screen recording software is being a douche.

Highlight the element of the texture you want to use with the

polygonal lasso tool

then go to the

edit menu

, the

transform

sub-menu and click on

perspective

.

If you can't get perfect results with that, use the

warp

transform tool, although it's easy to mess that up.

There's a way to actually tell photoshop which part of an image is a 3D plane to easily manipulate it, but I can't find it in CS5. I only used it once in CS4, though.

Not bad, a little imprecise and not as easy, but definitely worth it if you already have photoshop and don't want to buy texture maker, although the impreciseness is probably my fault.

As I said, if you can try to get Texture maker to work, it is piss easy and it spits out sweet results, photoshop is definitely rad if you can't get texture maker to work though.

Otherwise you can probably just use me by sending me images and demanding I texturify them or you'll ban me, that'll probably work too.

Haha, wow it even worked on my keys image, which is inclined and a lot of perspective.Wow this program is amazing, if you are serious about this type of program, I extremely highly recommend it.

sweet hunteh, that's exactly the thing I was thinking of. I should've just guessed, shit.

Last image I'm posting, really don't wanna be lame and hijack your thread, bro.A texture made using the extractor tool, applied to a model with only 14 polygons. It may not look all that rad, but for small props and possibly map textures, it does a sweet job. Also keep in mind I have a lame camera, and, admittedly tried to take the pictures at the worst angles and lighting conditions.

EDIT: Turns out my camera was EXTREMELY out of focus, LAME!

Seriously, this program is freakin rad, you runnin x64 or x86? Tried running compatibility mode for vista perhaps? Got to get this working, bro, you're missing out a lot!

But it's also the most complicated program ever.

Are you kidding me? I always thought Photoshop is the easiest graphics program to learn. It's easy to learn, hard to master. Creativity matters here.

Then what would you say about GIMP, which is a bitch when it comes to working with layers? Gimp is totally RAD =]

RAD

EXTREMELY

Crollo, are you trying to teach us oxymorons?

Are you kidding me? I always thought Photoshop is the easiest graphics program to learn

Not to me. :/

@ Brollo: Texture Maker does not run at all. I've tried many compatibility modes but none of them work.

@ Hunteh: I'll give it a try as soon as i have CS5.

This is terrible. I read the word RAD, and then think to myself.

What relevance does the lighting compile tool have in this thread.

Then go, "Oh. Wait."

I rofled.

really don't wanna be lame

Don't worry, we're all used to it by now.

@Atom: Have you tried running it as administrator?

I find it funny that people call Vista lame for compatibility problems, when I see left and right hundreds of people failing to run basic programs that run perfectly fine native under Vista and XP. It's really funny.

@Atom: Have you tried running it as administrator?

I did, no dice. :/

What? It's nothing to do with OS. Muzz is on a 64bit system and this program only works on 32bit.

Use Oracle VirtualBox and load up some Windowx XP on it, then create a virtual drive to use it as a network drive so you can easily manage files between the guest and virtual OS.

Also, I've read "Windows Vista" on this thread. Seriously, Windows Vista is garbage and has no purpose of existence as of 2009.
One either has XP, or Windows 7.

lol go back to the stone age to get a single program to work.

Sounds pretty lame to suggest that to somebody, striker. Worse then 'vista' which apparently is so garbage, right?

For me Vista has always worked flawlessly, and infintely times better then 7. No compatibility problems like with seven which couldn't run shit, and windows 7 was completely unusable due to constant crashes, wireless disconnects, network problems, file sharing was an absolute BITCH to get working properly, and the instant I downgrade to vista, everythings fine again. Just because you're an idiot blind fed by money, doesn't mean something you tried once when ati and nvidia were sitting on their hands eating shit instead of actually getting the fuck up and making proper drivers for the new kernel, is shit.

The only 'garbage' in here is you suggesting somebody install an ancient operating system which shouldn't even be sold any more, let alone used for anything useful.

Also, I think you meant to type 'Windows'.

Vista is garbage. Infinitely times better then 7? I really hope you're joking.

Also, you list all these supposed problems you have had with 7, yet I have yet to encounter any of those, so I am suspecting your hardware is the issue. Funny thing is that many of those issues you mention I did encounter with Vista.

And your comments on XP, "let alone used for anything useful? Sure... wasn't like Half-life 2 was developed on XP machines or anything...

BTW, good mention on the Texture Maker program. Definitely is sweet.

Trolling - don't feed it.

Trolling - don't feed it.

Right on bro, I see you're learning really quickly.

Also, @Muzz: Would dual booting be too much of a hassle for you? It may seem a bit of a steep step, but perhaps installing 32 bit 7 alongside 64 bit could help you out a fair bit when it comes to compatibility problems.

I already have a virtual machine running 32-bits Windows XP.
It does'nt run on that either. :/

I will attempt Photoshop later.