Knowledgebase:Texture Editors and Tools

A listing of texture editors and tools sites in alphabetical order.

• Arabeske Home Page

Arabeske Studio is a Java tool designed to help arabesque drawings. It is particularly aimed at 3D artists wishing to use complex patterns for their scene settings, including walls, parquets, windows, but can be used as a special 2D drawing tool to design original patterns. It relies on a heavy use of symmetry groups to quickly produce amazing frames, easy to texture and use as image maps. Several 2D export formats are supported, and POV-Ray users will benefit from a powerful dedicated exporter.

• Architexture

A free texture editor for Windows 9x which will support POV-Ray 3.1 textures. It also has a preview feature. This is basically a front-end to generate POV texture code.

• Infinity Textures Texture Maker

Infinity Textures (I-Tex) is a powerful Texture Designer and Generator

• Kelvin or wavelength to RGB converter

An online form that converts color temperature or wavelength to RGB.

• Pick o' Color

A small color picking utility.

• Rendersoft Illusionae - 3D Texture Maker

A 3D Texture Maker

• Sausage Software - Reptile 2

Reptile 2 allows you to easily produce any combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth textures. And besides generating a vast range of shapes and surfaces the program also features a great way to color the textures to suit the look and feel you require. This program is free.

• TC's Graphic Links

RanTex - Random Texture Generator for POV-Ray. Both a Windows and DOS versions available. By Tom & Cathy DeVeau

• Texture Magic Home Page

Texture library by Rene' Schwietzke

• TextureView

Tool for scanning, cataloging and viewing of POV-Ray textures under Windows 95/ 98/ NT by Friedemann Schmidt

• Tiler

This program creates seamless textures for use as background in web pages and other applications. It also can create seamless tga heightfields for POV-Ray.

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