Creating tileable patterns can involve a lot of tedious tracing and tweaking to get them to tile seamlessly. This tutorial describes a method of automating the process of creating flawlessly tiling, patterns using GIMP, Inkscape and Blender to render seamless tiles.

I step by step breakdown of my way of achieving a pearl material with luxrender. It describes and highlights some aspects of the luxrender material system.

A tutorial showing a specific example on how to create a normal map from a photograph of a tree-trunk. Also includes tips on what you should be aware of when taking your own photos for this kind of asset creation.

This tutorial explains in further detail the process of creating a “heightTemplate”, a specifically prepared grey scale image, which is passing through a normal map generator tool.