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Hey everyone, Beetlebear ( the artist of starmade ) here with a helpful thread on how to begin texturing your game, or at least understand how it all works.
I'm going to divide things up into topics and cover them one at a time. Feel free to post comments and share, I'll make a master thread eventually that links all of these articles together.
First up is the texture file specs, we will be covering the actual size of the starmade textures, which areas you should put your texture in, bleed and sizes.
The default size of the main texture file is 1024x1024 . I've made a template for you to download HERE .
This file may contain up to 256 individual textures, for use in starmade. The other files are exactly the same but are used for other purposes like factories and computers.
Let's take a closer look:
Bleed is extremely important. With bleed that does not match the edge of your blocks, you will get weird lines across your blocks in game. The only thing that needs to be remebmered here is that the texture within the pink and black border should "bleed" out into the gray area with whatever colors are inside the area.
Our texture size is 54 x 54. I created a file at 27x27 which is 54 divided by 2 and made the above texture. Before spending too much time I create a pattern of the texture several times and test it before figuring out what looks best "tiled".
The tiling pattern looks good! So now all we need to do is place it in our file where the grey hull texture would be.
Here, I have added the texture itself. Textures are exactly 54x54 inside of a 64x64 area, the extra 5 pixels on each side, top and bottom are all the bleed. Let's add some bleed to this texture by filling in the bleed area with the textures darkest color and extending everything else by 1 pixel towards the bleed area.
Save your t000.png file into the Data\textures\block folder ( NOTE: Back up your old t000.png so you can use that when you're not working on textures ).
Now let's go check it out in game:
I don't think I've forgotten anything. Go make those textures!
- Kevin "Beetlebear" Collins
I'm going to divide things up into topics and cover them one at a time. Feel free to post comments and share, I'll make a master thread eventually that links all of these articles together.
First up is the texture file specs, we will be covering the actual size of the starmade textures, which areas you should put your texture in, bleed and sizes.
The default size of the main texture file is 1024x1024 . I've made a template for you to download HERE .
This file may contain up to 256 individual textures, for use in starmade. The other files are exactly the same but are used for other purposes like factories and computers.
Let's take a closer look:
Bleed is extremely important. With bleed that does not match the edge of your blocks, you will get weird lines across your blocks in game. The only thing that needs to be remebmered here is that the texture within the pink and black border should "bleed" out into the gray area with whatever colors are inside the area.
Our texture size is 54 x 54. I created a file at 27x27 which is 54 divided by 2 and made the above texture. Before spending too much time I create a pattern of the texture several times and test it before figuring out what looks best "tiled".
The tiling pattern looks good! So now all we need to do is place it in our file where the grey hull texture would be.
Here, I have added the texture itself. Textures are exactly 54x54 inside of a 64x64 area, the extra 5 pixels on each side, top and bottom are all the bleed. Let's add some bleed to this texture by filling in the bleed area with the textures darkest color and extending everything else by 1 pixel towards the bleed area.
Save your t000.png file into the Data\textures\block folder ( NOTE: Back up your old t000.png so you can use that when you're not working on textures ).
Now let's go check it out in game:
I don't think I've forgotten anything. Go make those textures!
- Kevin "Beetlebear" Collins
