How To Make Textures?

eediot

<div class="IPBDescription">I can't find any tutorials</div> Hey. I wanted to have a go at making some textures, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Would I... Take a photo of the "texture" [i.e bath tiles, etc] i want, then Photoshop it to the tileable texture, in the resolution of multiples of... what was it? 8, 64, 128, 256, 512? [i.e 512 x 512]. Then how would i go about converting it into something that can be used in HL?

Thanks, and my apologies if it's been addressed before..

BrigadierWolf

Thats one way of doing it, remember that all Bitmaps in Half Life have to be 8-Bit (256 colors).
My preferred method has always been to draw whatever I want from Scratch. That way you arent limited to what you can find in your house.

SkinnY

<a href='http://www.telefragged.com/wally/' target='_blank'>link</a> <- program that converts pictures into .wad files for use in maps...

eediot

Thanks skinny, i'll download Wally later.

brigadierwolf - Yeah, but for a few specific textures that i have around my house, it'd be a whole lot easier and better [for me at least] to take a high-quality photo then edit it in photoshop.