That way no one else will see it and learn from it.

Maybe it's because all the people with good textures aren't seen online in game much.

Actually, i agree. The people with good textures seem to be too cool to play. Just sit in irc or forums or are inactive.

I know im not so good texture maker, but still I can make something pretty impressive if i want to. I agree with you in that the standards are dropping and they are selling shitty sets for too high prices. For example darkjak has way too overpriced heads for sale.

For the most part, people who sit in IRC or the forums and don't play in game are bored of the game.

Boredom does not equal too cool to play.

*cough*Timuchen*cough**cough*

we're working something out mono =)

true

Your ranting gave me a bit more motivation.




At whoever said my prices are high...

....

true? :>

But also negotiable, so people who really want a head and are reasonable usually can get a good head from me for under 10k. Markup, right?

I have to agree so much with some of these points

I can relate to the transparency part. When I started, i was like "O no wai! transparencies!!!1!111! Bai dis!"
Now i see lots of people going: "Look, transparency! I'll charge even more now!"
It makes me sad, since unlike before, they are actually saying "Since this has transparency, it is worth a lot more"
Not just "The transparency is cool"
This kinda gives a different message to me when i see it.

I do get angry when People sell poorly shaded, sloppy heads for over 10k though :/
And it's worse when they win a 20k request with such a head. Or even higher reqs.
Then there are the unedited brush sets...but those will never go away.

I too am irked by the headphone heads. Too many, so they aren't as cool anymore. And Headphones really don't bend at the top, but i think that's cuz a lot of people don't understand the wrapping of the texture enough to draw the proper curves. It's also really obvious they are trying to copy Mrama's heads too. Nothing new. I wanna see earbuds, dammit! >:o Maybe a phone headset!

On shading, I KNOW there are tutorials over them!

I even did a short, albeit not too instructive, video that showed where i shaded. At least it gave a simple idea of basic shading, which really is pretty formulaic.

I also have read so many questions for what they should draw.
Do an astronaut! I've yet to see one yet

Lol, i like your last line btw XD

So. In an attempt to help the texturers, i am working on a tutorial.
Its only WIP atm, and can be found in wibbles or here.

Any help at all would be appreciated.
I have Vox helping on the renders/help images.

Toribash is like the us economy, extremley inflated, everything is worth more now, and theres so many rich elites and expensive items...The good old days where 100k for a texture set was fucking amazing

I'm not much of a texturebro, but I've been trying to get into it.

I think part of the blame goes to buyers- for a while, you'd used to see people really caring about the quality. They're the guys buying the texts, you know. I was always simple in my requests, I even used to be one of those headphone wearing guys (I like to think I was more interesting to look at, though D but I always saw something like "cn i hav vamp head wit emo hair pls?" in most of the texture shops.

There's only so much you can do with a 'vamp head wit emo hair'.

But another thing is, with the increased amount of softwares out there that make it easier to make textures, people are thinking, "hey, I can do this!"

Which the results may vary.


Aside from that, I think that the toribash texture industry might actually be starting to move up. Witth the inclusion of bumpmap textures, people are going to be looking for quality now. A lot of people will dictate more in what they want- not just emo-headphone getups.

I don't know. This is just the opinion of a crappy wannabe artist. Take it as you may.