Thanks

What’s up with that? Are Dutch people not allowed to visit the site?

I’d much rather have the original photo and use what I need than have someone’s idea of a generic one size fits all texture. You’re going to have to edit it if you want to do a good job anyways.

Good find.

Photos of scenery or objects don’t count as textures, and the photos of surfaces are mostly too close up to be used as a texture. More variety within a pattern is needed for it to work as a texture.

And, in my book, if it ain’t tileable, it ain’t no texture.

A quick google for ’tileable’ and I found this (Texturize 2.0 plugin for GIMP) which looks rather useful, though I’ve not tried it myself…

http://www.manucornet.net/Informatique/Gimp_Texturize.php

There’s a lovely example on there of a tileable cracked earth texture. It would make the basis of a great skin texture for an alien/monster/mutant/etc.

nice photos but 50% are not suitable as texture. But taking pictures of potential textures is hard anyway. Most require editing (at least when I try). ;-)