Textures - Details

Quality Guideline: Textures - Details

Appears in: Body Shop - All, Build Mode - Walls & Floors, and General Guidelines

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Possible Assessments

Category	Title	Description
Body Shop - All	No details	The textures used on the clothing part seem to be missing some important details (like seams, buttons, pockets, etc)! When making textures for clothing it's always important to add these particular details to the clothing piece. It's always good to check either google or EA's clothing to really study how these seams are applied to the clothing piece you're working on :)
Body Shop - All	Details but needs some work	The textures seem to have details, but some or most of the details are scaled a bit too big or too small, or the placing itself is a little off to be appropriate for the specific detail it's supposed to represent. When placing specific details, you can always check out real-life clothes, if not, EA's clothes and see where they placed specific seams, pockets, pleats, etc.
Body Shop - All	Correct details	The details on your textures are exquisite, with everything sized, placed, and textured just so. Excellent work! :)
Build Mode - Walls & Floors	No details	The textures used on the walls/floors seem to be missing some shading to really give that impression of the element it might want to represent (like wood, stone, paint, carpet, etc). Or missing some shadows beneath crowns, panels, etc. It's always good to check google and carefully study how the shadows, shading as well as highlights and details of the material looks! :)
Build Mode - Walls & Floors	Details but needs some work	The textures seem to have a great start! but there are some parts of it that still appear a bit too big or too small (or an odd placement). Now, this is easily fixable by giving it more contrast or searching for a better reference image that you can play around with, in your image editor. It's always good to check google and carefully study how the shadows, shading as well as highlights and details of the material looks! :)
Build Mode - Walls & Floors	Correct details	The textures are incredibly well-drawn! If not, edited! They look really realistic and have some fantastic details and shading! Amazingly done!
General Guidelines	Multiple issues	At least some of the textures appear to need more work on both the shadows/highlights of the material, as well as adding surface details (like zippers on clothing).
General Guidelines	Shadows/highlights	At least some of the textures appear to need more work on shadows and highlights.
General Guidelines	Surface details	At least some of the textures appear to need more work on surface details (like zippers on clothing).
General Guidelines	None	Your textures have surface details and highlights/shadows. Rock on!

General Guidelines

Good textures are more than just a flat colour! Textures should have shadows, highlights, and surface details appropriate for the item like zippers on clothing. Without these sorts of details, items tend to look flat and unrealistic, which is generally not desired by downloaders.

Shadows and Highlights

Highlights and shadows are very important when creating new content. Without highlights and shadows, the content itself will look a bit unrealistic and flat.

For CAS/Bodyshop content, even skin-tight items have some highlights on areas like the breasts/chest, tummy, butt, knees and thighs. Shadows should appear on areas like underarms, crotch, middle of the back and anywhere where you'd expect the shadow to appear.

For Build/Buy content, even flat objects should have some highlights on the areas like at the edges things are usually a tad darker compared to the top. Shadows should appear on areas like the sides of pillows or the legs of a chair. If it's fabric, it's always good to make it look like it has wrinkles and such.

Tip: If you're making content that also has black and white in it, it can be good to also check out the Texture Colour and Brightness rubric!

Surface details

Surface details can bring even a simple creation to life. Details include things such as:

CAS/Bodyshop: Zippers, pockets, stitching, and details of fabric like seams, folds, and appropriate surface textures
Build/Buy: 3d trims, joins in wood furniture, fabric details on things like sofas and carpets

Without these sorts of details, items can also appear unrealistic and flat. After all, if you're making a pair of jeans, for example, they're going to look strange without pockets!

If using photographs for textures

It's really important to make sure that you have the correct image(s). You might need to adjust these significantly and make sure that these images fit the mesh perfectly and are believable as well as looking good in-game. So for example, cargo pants should fit on a mesh that also has lots of pockets and fuller, thicker legs, rather than cloning a legging and putting a cargo pant image on that instead.

Section Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.

Body Shop - All

Bodyshop/CASpart

Every clothing piece has some sort of seam, shadows, bits that show bellybuttons (maybe even abs!), pockets, buttons, etc. to make it realistic. That's why, to make it so the CASpart doesn't appear too flat or not as unique, adding details is really important! :) It's also good to make sure that the texture itself is on the correct places on the mesh and fits the shape perfectly.

If you're not the greatest at drawing textures...

If you're not exactly great at drawing seams or buttons, or whatever other details you may need, you can always borrow some bits and pieces from an EA/Maxis texture and use that instead :) However, make sure that the wrinkles and seams do work well on your texture and that they're on places where it's appropriate. This does require some 2D program editing knowledge such as Photoshop or GIMP though!

If you like to create CASparts from images of clothing...

Build Mode - Walls & Floors

Build mode - Walls and Floors

When you're making textures for walls and/or floors, usually it has some sort of elements such as 'wood, stone, carpet, paint, etc'. or shadows beneath crowns, etc. Therefore, it's always good to make sure that, for example, wooden floors actually have a wooden texture going on! And with carpets you want to make sure it's not necessarily bucket filled but actually has that carpet-y texture going on.

If you're not too sure how to achieve this effect, it's always good to google "carpet fabrics" or "stone textures". for walls, it's also good to google the type of walls and carefully see how the shadows are in the pictures so you get that nice 3D effect going on! :)

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Examples

Details everywhere!

Why is this correct?

It has all the details that jeans should have, or at least a maxis match one :) buttons, seams, even the wrinkles!

No details

Why is this incorrect

Even though these has some wrinkles and highlights, they seem to be missing exactly what you'd expect when sharing jeans. That being, seams, a button, or pockets. As a result they look "painted on" and unrealistic.

Photoskinning done right

Why is this correct

If you're making textures from images, what's especially important is that the texture really works well with the mesh, as well as the wrinkles that are suppose to show up on specific spots on the mesh. So for example the end of the jeans (as in, close to the feet) have wrinkles that work really well with the mesh! The knees are also a good example.

Photoskinning gone wrong

Why is this incorrect?

Simply plopping down a texture photo without editing it to fit the mesh rarely works well. This texture is distorted, lacks details like pockets or buttons, and the overall texture doesn't seem to look like fabric that a skirt could actually be made from.

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