Custom Textures

In this tutorial you'll learn how to
use custom textures in your maps.


You'll need a graphics editor for this tutorial.  If you
don't  allready  have  one you can download a thirty
day evaluation of Paint Shop Pro here.  If you have a
scanner  your  options  are even greater.  Below you
can see a marble  texture I snagged from 3DCafe and
used  the fill tool  with red on high opacity.  The next
image  is  a  graphic  that  I scanned  from  a  college
text.  The  final  image  is  a colorized  version  of  the
second  graphic  with  a  pattern  fill  surounding  it 
with the first graphic.  The floor of the room uses the
red marble texture and the objective is to insert the
new graphic seamlessly into the floor.

  

Here  is  a  shot  of  where  the  graphic will go.  Quake 3
uses two graphic formats.  The first is the .jpeg format
which  is  a  compressed  image  that captures decent
visual  quality.  The second is the .tga format  that has
fantastic  visual  quality  at 32 bit  color depth  but can
really  bloat  the size of  your  map and  reduce frames.
Now  go  into  your  baseq3  directory  of  your  Quake 3
folder  and  create  a 'textures' folder.  Now  within  this
new folder make another called 'test'.  It will be in this
folder that you'll save all of your new textures.  If your
textures really start to dominate your map then simply
create more folders to accomodate the images.

   

When you launch Radiant and go to the textures option
on the toolbar you should see the 'test' folder appear in
the list. Now back in the map create a basic brush that
will act as the canvas that will display your new image.
Make sure that your new image is in the 'test' folder so
it can be selected from the texture window on Radiant.