Whilst poking around on nVidia's website, for work-related reasons, I
stumbled across a downloadable collection of completely free textures.
They're in dds format (that's a DirectX format), for use in games, but I
converted them to targas and used them in POV! :)

So, anyway, these images are just a simple test of these textures. In most
of the renders I've used the same texture for the image_map and bump_map,
which works well on some textures but not on others. The finish settings are
my own, but they only took a couple of tries to get something looking really
natural, when normally it would take me hours to get the right effect.

Anyway, I thought you folks might find these textures useful. I know I'll be
using them in my work! The texture set is available from nvidia's website,
here: http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_TTVol_01

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Tek
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TT_test4.jpg/TT_test5.jpg:

"Nooo! It's the attack of the mile-high marble!! Everyone into your 
basements! Aaah! There's not enough time! It's rolling down the mountains!! 
Oh, the humanity!"

PS. Sorry, I couldn't resist!

-- 
light_source#macro G(E)sphere{z+E*y*5e-3.04rotate-z*E*6pigment{rgbt#end{
20*y-10#local n=162;1}#while(n)#local n=n-.3;G(n)x}}G(-n).7}}#end//GregE

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ROTFLMAO so hard that I am about to hit my head on the chair wheels....

Thanks for the post!

"Greg Edwards" <edw### [at] hotmailcomremovethis> wrote in message
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> TT_test4.jpg/TT_test5.jpg:
>
> "Nooo! It's the attack of the mile-high marble!! Everyone into your
> basements! Aaah! There's not enough time! It's rolling down the
mountains!!
> Oh, the humanity!"
>
> PS. Sorry, I couldn't resist!
>
> --
> light_source#macro G(E)sphere{z+E*y*5e-3.04rotate-z*E*6pigment{rgbt#end{
> 20*y-10#local n=162;1}#while(n)#local n=n-.3;G(n)x}}G(-n).7}}#end//GregE

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Tek wrote:
> They're in dds format (that's a DirectX format), for use in games, but I
> converted them to targas and used them in POV! :)

Could you supply a copy of this utility to convert their format?
I've never heard of .dds, and PSP hasn't either.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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PGP-(--) t* 5++>+++++ X+ R* tv+ b++(+++) DI
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"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Could you supply a copy of this utility to convert their format?
> I've never heard of .dds, and PSP hasn't either.

You can download it from here:
http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=ps_texture_compression_plugin

If you download the Photoshop plug-in, it can be used with Paint Shop Pro.
Just put it in the plug-ins directory of PSP.

FYI, dds stands for Direct Draw Surface, which is to do with Microsoft's
DirectX.

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Tek
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hehehe!
very funny :-D

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"Greg Edwards" <edw### [at] hotmailcomremovethis> wrote in message
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> TT_test4.jpg/TT_test5.jpg:
>
> "Nooo! It's the attack of the mile-high marble!! Everyone into your
> basements! Aaah! There's not enough time! It's rolling down the
mountains!!
> Oh, the humanity!"
>
> PS. Sorry, I couldn't resist!
>
> --
> light_source#macro G(E)sphere{z+E*y*5e-3.04rotate-z*E*6pigment{rgbt#end{
> 20*y-10#local n=162;1}#while(n)#local n=n-.3;G(n)x}}G(-n).7}}#end//GregE

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Tek wrote:
> If you download the Photoshop plug-in, it can be used with Paint Shop Pro.
> Just put it in the plug-ins directory of PSP.

Nog, got that, figured out why it wasn't working; I was missing one of
the dlls. O.o

I find the having to click 'yes' at each image that has a MIP map to be
terribly annoying, especially when I want to to a batch process and
convert the lot to TGA...plus the plugin GPFs after a while due to...
memory consumption? likely...

Some interesting textures though.  The aerial views in particular are
incredible; they're seamless!

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GFA dpu- s: a?-- C++(++++) U P? L E--- W++(+++)>$
N++ o? K- w(+) O? M-(--) V? PS+(+++) PE(--) Y(--)
PGP-(--) t* 5++>+++++ X+ R* tv+ b++(+++) DI
D++(---) G(++) e*>++ h+ !r--- !y--
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Yeah that pop-up message is annoying, but I think the textures are worth the
hassle :)

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:3e71da32@news.povray.org...
> Tek wrote:
> > If you download the Photoshop plug-in, it can be used with Paint Shop
Pro.
> > Just put it in the plug-ins directory of PSP.
>
> Nog, got that, figured out why it wasn't working; I was missing one of
> the dlls. O.o
>
> I find the having to click 'yes' at each image that has a MIP map to be
> terribly annoying, especially when I want to to a batch process and
> convert the lot to TGA...plus the plugin GPFs after a while due to...
> memory consumption? likely...
>
> Some interesting textures though.  The aerial views in particular are
> incredible; they're seamless!
>
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.12
> GFA dpu- s: a?-- C++(++++) U P? L E--- W++(+++)>$
> N++ o? K- w(+) O? M-(--) V? PS+(+++) PE(--) Y(--)
> PGP-(--) t* 5++>+++++ X+ R* tv+ b++(+++) DI
> D++(---) G(++) e*>++ h+ !r--- !y--
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
>

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AWESOME!
Nice try. We can tell you really took a photograph of a 5 mile diameter ball
of aluminum sitting on Iowa.

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Wasn't it Timothy R. Cook who wrote:
>Tek wrote:
>> They're in dds format (that's a DirectX format), for use in games, but I
>> converted them to targas and used them in POV! :)
>
>Could you supply a copy of this utility to convert their format?
>I've never heard of .dds, and PSP hasn't either.

A quick Google finds a set of nice small free graphics programs that
operate on DDS and a number of other uncommon image formats at

http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/graphix.htm

I've not tried them on the actual Transmogrifying Textures Vol 1 yet
(I's still thinking about that 110Mb download) but there seemed to be a
slight vertical stretch when I tried them on some other DDS files.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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