Texture Topics

This is the main page for anything about using textures (materials) and creating textures. Readers of this page are invited to:

• rearrange what's here
• suggest new page names
• write new pages

Technical

• The Texture class
• Definitions of the terms Surface and Polygon
• Surface Flags (UT)

Using Textures

Interface

• Selecting Surfaces
• Surface Alignment
• Surface Properties Window
• Texture Replacement Tool

Style

• Using Textures
• Texture Package – reference listing of the standard texture packages, with description of contents

Dynamic Textures

• Texture Effects
• Animated Texture
• Dynamic Texture
• ScreenSlidePage
• Variable Panning Textures
• MaterialSequence

Tricked Textures

• Pseudo-Bumpmapped Texture

Specialized Textures

• Palette
• Font
• Level Screenshot

Texture Creation

• Something on the huge list of Texture properties is needed...
• Creating Textures
• Texture Properties
• Graphics Application
• Texture Import And Export
• Macro Texture
• Detail Texture
• Base Textures
• DXT

Related Topics

• Custom Textures – maybe a list of cool 3rd party texture packs?
• Crosshairs
• Making Icons
• Topics on Materials
• Skinning

Discussion

Unknown: I have no idea where this should go, but:
I've just discovered that renaming a custom texture that's in use is fine: both the surfaces where it was applied and the actors that referenced it (Screen) updated too. (phew!)

Tarquin(?): (Big Cleanup tag removed by SuperApe) Textures are now called Materials. Topics On Materials and this page need to merge and become [Material Topics]?. scratch that – everyone is still talking about "textures", right? How about Texturing? for using them in maps, and Creating textures for the artsy stuff?

SuperApe: Materials and textures seem to be interchangable names. I think creating texures still qualifies as a topic on textures (materials). No need to separate the two. Pick one name (either Materials or Textures, most likely I'd say the one that came first in UT), then have a hub for "Topics on That". On that hub, branch of for both standard manipulation of textures and custom creation, as they seem to be very closely related.

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Category Mapping

Category To Do – Merge info with Topics on Materials (may be renamed to [Material Topics]?)