Textures Created 17 years ago2007-02-23 04:33:50 UTC by Dragon Fly

This is my 1st attempt at makeing a texture for hl1 from scratch (Others have been based on orig ones and diffrent words on them and/or colour).
It is meant to be a metal sign with the word "Bright Sky Research Center" on it and I was wondering what I could do to make it better.
http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=brightsky2rc4.jpg

I dunno, looks pretty plain, and way too clean, to the point of it looking like a website graphic. There's no texture to it at all. Make it look more like metal or whatever material it's supposed to be, and also put some signs of wear and tear on it.

The lighting is also a bit off. You should let the map itself do the lighting, and not have patches of darkness on it unless it's from the material itself. In this case, it looks like there's a shadow in the lower left corner.

How can you make it look more like metal in Photo Shop 7 ?

I would have no idea, because I don't use Photoshop. However, if you can find a nice metal picture to use as an overlay, that would work.

A pretty simple way of making signs is:

1. Fill with selected colour.
2. Add 20-30 noise (monochromatic)
3. Go to Filters->Artistic->Dry Brush/Paint Daubs and play with it, till' you get the effect decent-looking.

For extra realism - you can manually add scratches/dents with the dodge/burn tools.

I tried srrys way but the overlay doesn't effect the darker text color
I also tried Daubsters method but can't seem to stop it bluring the text to a point the smaller bit can be read and the background looks like metal.

I also tried useing the steel texture from halflife.wad as a background then adding a "color" layer which I made light blue. I then added very dark blue (almost black) text and set the layer to "color burn"
This is what the above resulted in: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6008/brightsky3ux9.jpg

can't seem to stop it bluring the text

Always keep the text in a separate layer.

Yeah, make it a bit darker, and make it less saturated in color, too. Unless it's been painted with gloss paint or something, it'll look somewhat greyish. Just make a new layer, paintbucket it with grey, and lower the opacity to ~10. You could also select the background layer and go to Image > Ajustments > Hue/Saturation and lower the saturation level to your liking. Both methods work well.

Once again I will link to this thread.

http://www.twhl.co.za/forums.php?action=viewthread&str=rimrook+texture&type=1&pg=1&id=12831

Download Rimrooks texture tutorials and "Texture Kit" from there. Helped me a lot.

Helped me make this.