Paint Shop Pro 8, 7 or even 6 lets you do seamless tiling if you know what the control is called.
There are several freeware programs out there for Windows... Wally is "acceptable" but tetchy! I reccomend you go to www.snapfiles.com and search the freeware for drawing / painting programs...
I also reccomend you go to www.turbosquid.com and look for FREE textures...
Textures are all over the internet. If you use Google Image Search you can see bazillions... OK maybe not bazillions but a great many! The problem is that textures are becoming to be used like fonts.
fonts are free. I care less what anyone says in the USA fonts are free.
So what about textures??? Ah theres the rub... and it certainly will rub someone the wrong way.
Lets say you find a great texture for your dungeon wall on a "Free Textures" website.
You use it. You manage to make a game that people buy. One day some lawyervampires show up at the site of your game company with a lawsuit from Guiseppe Blow who claims he created the texture you used.
What happens... Oy! It should depend on the country you are in but it will indeed be interestng.
That said... I make my own.
--RZ
There are several freeware programs out there for Windows... Wally is "acceptable" but tetchy! I reccomend you go to www.snapfiles.com and search the freeware for drawing / painting programs...
I also reccomend you go to www.turbosquid.com and look for FREE textures...
Textures are all over the internet. If you use Google Image Search you can see bazillions... OK maybe not bazillions but a great many! The problem is that textures are becoming to be used like fonts.
fonts are free. I care less what anyone says in the USA fonts are free.
So what about textures??? Ah theres the rub... and it certainly will rub someone the wrong way.
Lets say you find a great texture for your dungeon wall on a "Free Textures" website.
You use it. You manage to make a game that people buy. One day some lawyervampires show up at the site of your game company with a lawsuit from Guiseppe Blow who claims he created the texture you used.
What happens... Oy! It should depend on the country you are in but it will indeed be interestng.
That said... I make my own.
--RZ