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My wife at work is creating a web based teaching reasource for schools via the UK Department for Education and Skills.

The following is her website -
http://www.designandmakingcentre.co.uk/ ... /about.asp

Here is their work blogsite from which it will be linked
http://digi-school.blogspot.com/

The idea is to produce a website that children can access and make moodboards & design inspiration boards by drag and drop images onto their sheet. The topics will be

- Colour
- Line
- pattern
- texture
- shape and form

She has seen overmy shoulder some of the great textures etc people use and create here, but I am useless at creating materials - in fact I am totally useless at it - so hence to open this up to those out there more talented than me.

The textures will not be used as rendering textures , but rather as just material inspirations.


Can any one suggest where to look for copyright free textures that are both man made and natural ?

or

if there is anyone here willing for for their textures to be used on site with due credits.

If people want to contact me or Alison, either PM or respond here and she can be in more direct contact.

Best Regards


Jonathan Stedman

Interesting idea..

Your wifey needs some textures, at what resolution does she need them at ? there's a ton of free one's which can be generated via Filter Forge and it's huge library of free procedural textures. Also MapZone got some nice procedural textures which can be generated into bitmaps, they're also free.

I might have some free textures in my library here i can share, some photographic one's.

Should they all be tileable and plain color textures ? no bumpmaps and such things

/ Max

Maximus - thanks for the reply - I 'll ask her when she gets back from work.

At this stage she has the concept and is just woking out the the parameters of what is feasable but also what is worth including.

Tileable - interesting point - not sure what to think about it yet

Bump mapps and normals etc - not really needed as its realy meant as a 'inspiration' reasource to spark ideas off in the childrens minds.

Creating her own textures in the software you suggest - mmm - never thought of that .


Thanks for the reponse


Jonathan

You're welcome

I think it would be a good idea to include tileable textures aswell and non-tileable one's so the kids have the ability to create what they want using both. Why limit them to only non-tileable textures i see no reason to do that.

Regarding bump and normalmaps, i agree. Let's skip those, kids aren't doing 3D are they so they don't need those textures. It would be a waste of storagespace and bandwidth.

It takes a bit of time and dedication to create textures in those apps i suggested but i could assist with that as i have both apps and then i can render out textures from them using whatever procedural maps are freely avaiable for them, i got time this summer as i'm unemployed now. If however she wanna create textures on her own then i recommend Filter Forge, it's easy to work with even if you got no experience. MapZone is much more difficult to use even for experienced artists.

/ Max