Guild of Writers

Hi, it's matthornb, you may be confused by the slightly different username, but it really is me.

I've been having some login problems and the only way I could get in was to make a new username.

Anyway, just here to say the contest is still on - and we can keep discussing it.

It's now March 25th, and the contest deadline is getting closer.

No entries yet but I hope that some of you are working on making tutorials and that I'll have something to judge in May.

Hi, it's matthornb, you may be confused by the slightly different username, but it really is me.

Ok, welcome *b2,
I can confirm you there will be at least one tutorial,
and I have chosen a subject already.
It will be around "unwrapping", because there is a lag of info around that subject.
(I still am a beginner myself in it.)
I will try to explain how to do a proper unwrap of "a rope with a knot in it "
Basicly the rope is nothing more then a low poly tube, but it's the knot which makes it a little complex.
I will provide the blend file,the texture and explanation.

And I was thinking about making a tree-making tutorial.

dendwaler wrote:@matthorn,
a texture database certainly is very usefull! There are many databasesaround, but still it remains difficult to find the right one.
Often making them yourself is quicker then endless searching.

I saw this thread a bit late, because the title didn't give me the right idea about what is discussed here.

As Chacal already mentioned - but I think he forgot to mention the URL: We already have a working texture (and models / sounds) database and server, which was made especially for the needs of the Guild of Writers.
http://www.texturu.org/

It seems to be not used very frequently though - I assume it's because it is not filled with very much content right now. People seem to be pleased by other resources like cgtextures to get their textures from. And I must admit that I lost a bit interest in updating and maintaining it in the past, because it was a lot of work to get this running, and then getting the impression that nearly nobody seems to care about it.

But if there is still a need for such a repository, I would suggest we continue to fill it with content, and I'm sure it will grow.

I have gigabytes of textures from around the world that I want to upload. I've just been too lazy.

Jennifer_P wrote:And I was thinking about making a tree-making tutorial.

Actually there is already a great tutorial for tree making in blender:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:T ... _Poly_Tree

Personally it get me other the "learning blender threshold", and I even suggest that it should be watched by everyone who's begging learning Blender (even before reading "Noob to Pro").

Thanks for pointing that tutorial out to me, Egon--I'm downloading it now, and it looks great. I was planning to cover a similar-looking technique as part of my tutorial, but now I think I'll just put in a link to these videos and then go straight to the more-difficult-to-learn-but-less-work-intensive-once-you-know-what-you're-doing as well as the high-poly-tree-suitable-for-billboarding-or-memory-gulping-gorgeous-graphical-excess means of tree-creation.

And tachzusamm, I didn't even know we had a texture server. I have bundles of textures that I've been keeping in a box.net account, wishing that there was an easier in which to share them. This will be perfect.

tachzusamm wrote:As Chacal already mentioned - but I think he forgot to mention the URL: We already have a working texture (and models / sounds) database and server, which was made especially for the needs of the Guild of Writers.
http://www.texturu.org/

It seems to be not used very frequently though - I assume it's because it is not filled with very much content right now. People seem to be pleased by other resources like cgtextures to get their textures from. And I must admit that I lost a bit interest in updating and maintaining it in the past, because it was a lot of work to get this running, and then getting the impression that nearly nobody seems to care about it.

But if there is still a need for such a repository, I would suggest we continue to fill it with content, and I'm sure it will grow.

Oh...
There was a time, rather long ago, when it was announced to be down for maintenence, indefinately and I can't recall anyone mentioning it went back up -- maybe people assumed the worst...
Either way, we need to make people aware of its existence, somehow...

/me has got a small number of industrial noises to upload, once I get them cut up into neat-ish sections... :7

Jojon wrote:Either way, we need to make people aware of its existence, somehow...

Already started a new thread as a reminder of it's existence.

Interesting. Glad to see people are preparing entries for this contest.

I'm also intrigued by the models/textures/sounds archive, I didn't know that such a GoW archive existed but now that I do I may have to submit some textures and models to it.