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Before making your own textures, you should check out  
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*Before making your own textures, you should check out [[Custom Content Websites]] for textures. Otherwise, you can try to make your own.
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=Using an image editor=
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*First, download an image editor of your choice, such as [http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ The Gimp]
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**It isn't possible to tell you how to make any texture you want in one tutorial.
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**Instead, google how to make the texture you want, there almost certainly is a tutorial out there somewhere.
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***With some textures, there are things you should do to them to make them more realistic, such as [http://tutorials.texturama.com/tut_dirty.html adding dirt]. Keep that in mind.
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[http://www.cgtextures.com/]
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*Then you will probably want to make it seamless.
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**In Gimp go to '''Filters → Map → Make Seamless''', and Gimp will make the texture seamless by modifying the corners.
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***For other softwares, you can probably find plugins which help you do this.
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Otherwise download a program called gimp
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*An alternate way to make textures seamless can be found [http://www.coniserver.net/wiki/index.php/Seamless_Texture_Tutorial here] and a different version of the same tutorial can be found [http://www.photoshoptextures.com/texture-tutorials/seamless-textures.htm here]
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*As for size: your texture should be 512x512 at a bare minimum. If the texture is too large within Sandbox, you can always use /vscale to fix it. Always use powers of 2 (512, 1024, 2048) for dimensions.
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[http://www.gimp.org/downloads/]
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*Now you should save it and you are done!
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