How to make new textures

• Before making your own textures, you should check out
  • CG Textures
  • 10ravens
    • Make sure the texture you use has a license you like, and are able to use properly.

Using GIMP

• Otherwise, download a program called The Gimp
  • It isn't possible to tell you how to make any texture you want in one tutorial.
  • Instead, google how to make the texture you want in gimp, there almost certainly is a tutorial out there somewhere. You may want to try the Gimp Talk forums to begin with.
    • With some textures, there are things you should do to them to make them more realistic, such as adding dirt. Keep that in mind. [1]

• Then you will probably want to make it seamless.
  • In Gimp go to

Filters → Map → Make Seamless

• An alternate way to make textures seamless can be found here: [2], a different version of the same tutorial can be found here: [3]

• Now you should save it and you are done!
• If you want, you can continue and make shader maps for your texture.

Using a generator

• There are many great texture generators out there to use. Unfortunately, the webpage for MaPZone, one of the best texture generators, has gone down, so I'm assuming that MaPZone is gone as well. Here's a list of other good texture generators, all should be free.
  • FXGen
  • Neo Texture Edit
  • Blender also has a very good texture creation program.