A big project going underway(help advice welcomed)

[arcones]

No I don't. However if you need some textures I could be persuaded to help ;D

I'm not sure what you mean by cartoony textures... Could you clarify perhaps? (I understand what type of textures you want)

[stealthpanda]

lol, you would ask either of the brothers which road his brother would tell you to take, then take the opposite road.

[arcones]

Okay, well that answers the riddle for me (I had given it some thought)

But what about the textures?

[iTech]

A great website here, http://www.cgtextures.com/ has some really great textures. But, all you have to do is put them in your sandbox files after you copied them.

[chocolatepie33]

@itech: cgtextures licenses the textures in a way that we can't really use them that well.

Use of the Textures is only allowed under the following conditions:
- Private or commercial use
- Use in 2D or 3D computer graphics, movies and printed media
- Incorporation in computer games, 3D models
- Selling 3D models bundled with modified versions of the textures, when the texture is customized for the 3D model

It is NOT permitted to:
- Sell or distribute any of these textures in an unmodified form, or where the derived product you are selling or distributing is a Texture or a collection of Textures. IN OTHER WORDS: Do not sell or distribute any of these textures (modified or not) by itself or in a texture pack, material, clipart, website theme or s(c)rapbooking pack!
- Bundle the images with software such as paint programs, 3D programs, photo-kiosk software.
- Reselling or redistributing the images at 'print on demand' services (mugs, t-shirts, mouse mats, etc)
- Use the textures in graphic design themes or templates sold to multiple customers on digital market places (this includes templates of websites and business cards and e-cards).
- Selling or redistributing skins for laptops, phones and other devices, created with images from CGTextures.
- Stockpile images with the goal of making a local texture library.
- Using a special program (spider, leecher) or script to automatically download all Textures on the CGTextures website. Users who try to mass download will be banned from the website automatically.
- Interfere with the security or otherwise abuse, disrupt, place excessive loads on, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the CGTextures website or any system resources or networks connected to this website.
- Release the Textures or derivative products under Open Source Licences[/quote]

If you'll notice the bolded text, it's likely that using the textures in Sandbox would defy the license in some way. I'm not entirely sure about to what extent you could interpret the license, but I firmly believe that I'm going to try to stay away from CGTextures. I'll go there for texture ideas, but not to get anything.

ALSO, I NEED SOME GOOD FANTASY-LIKE, YET CARTOONY TEXTURES to use for this environment(as in grass, dirt, leaves, bark, branches, and wood)any contributions will be appreciated.

Like arc said, what's "cartoony" mean? cel-shaded? Like this?

or see here:
http://chasemadethis.com/2010/10/17/jus ... rning-lol/

[stealthpanda]

All right, so I will soon have some time to work on my mapping more. In the mean time, I have done some neat concept art for the first temple(the temple of wind) that will be under the great tree. It will have a lot of unique jumping puzzles, mazes, some possible combat, and of course a storyline that will gradually unfold. I hope to get some more screenshots uploaded soon, so keep checking this topic people.

Oh, and I DESPERATELY NEED A RECCOMENDATION OF SOME GOOD TEXTURING SOFTWARE, as I aim to make my own textures for this game to fit my needs

-all for now

[cork279]

I usually use MaPZone to make textures (you can also use NeoTextureEdit). But you can always use Photoshop (if you have it) or GIMP (free) (or ArtWeaver, Inkscape or Paint.NET) to edit them, or make them from scratch.

But I recommend MaPZone and/or GIMP.

[kddekadenz]

If you want to make cartoonish textures, Inkscape may be the best choice