Playing around with wood textures

[lemonbear]

We've been talking a lot about wood plank textures lately, and since I'm teaching myself about pixel art right now I thought I'd give a go at editing our current textures to be perhaps a bit more realistic. In effect, I primarily reduced contrast and got rid of the border on the horizontal planks. I also tried to make the painted wood colors a bit "dustier" so it looks like it was painted over a brown wood. I'm definitely still working on some of the colors (primarily the vertical versions of natural colors - oak, birch, jungle, spruce), so feel free to give all the feedback!

Oak, Jungle, Northern, Red, Vertical oak and jungle:




Spruce, Northern:


Yellow, Green, Red, Jungle, Birch, Vertical birch and jungle:



White, Grey:



Purple, Blue, Northern:

 

[Emoticone11]

I really like the white and gray wood! It's like what I was trying to do with the last update, but better. Looks more like whitewashed wood planks.

I'm still having some doubts about the normal wood types though, i.e. oak/spruce/birch/jungle. They feel a bit too flat/washed out compared to the other textures in the pack, like the slate or stone bricks.

 

[lemonbear]

Yeah, they're a bit tricky. My normal wood types have more contrast than my colored ones. In general, though, wood planks would not be as contrasty/reflective as something like slate or stone.

Here's a few pictures without original wood textures:


I actually like the bit of contrast between the wooden planks and things like shutters and doors so those blocks stick out a bit more.

 

[lemonbear]

I'll put a link for my test pack so you can see it better in context in a few minutes. Just have to wait for it to upload to Drive.

 

[lemonbear]

Here's the link! Let me know if you have trouble with it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nn-x3Kf5Ij6qNzWTpLpx5WyWuamFxChQ/view?usp=sharing

[**EDIT: Replaced the folder with a zip file!**]

 

[lemonbear]

Lol, I'm just now realizing I could've zipped that folder and saved about 30 min of waiting for it to upload to Google Drive

 

[Heroiclust]

You're good. I can't even draw a Mario Mushroom

 

[AerioOndos]

It is looking good but the dark northern wood looks a little bit washed out, I am not really sure how to describe it. That makes it look especially unusual in the waterman house.

 

[lemonbear]

I was essentially going for a darker version of this:

Or this:


Any lighter, and it looks really odd in places like Weeping Town or where it's used mixed with bedrock. I could try darker, though.

Also, here's the all the textures side by side with the old ones:
Texture Changes

I'm going to try adding some highlight sections like in the originals to increase contrast, but I really don't want to add the black shadows back in.

 

[thecoddfish]

I absolutely love the birch planks! I do notice that the second-to-bottom plank stands out as being a lot darker on the horizontal planks - specifically spruce, jungle, oak, red, green and yellow - which creates an obvious stripe when used on a large area. The contrast doesn't seem as pronounced on the birch or whitewashed wood though.

 

[AerioOndos]

I was essentially going for a darker version of this:

Or this:
View attachment 2441

Any lighter, and it looks really odd in places like Weeping Town or where it's used mixed with bedrock. I could try darker, though.

Yeah, and you've done a great job of making it look like those examples (which look beautiful, The first one is how I want my northern turf houses to look) it just seems a little bit too light though. Maybe its just more fiddling required.

 

[lemonbear]

I absolutely love the birch planks! I do notice that the second-to-bottom plank stands out as being a lot darker on the horizontal planks - specifically spruce, jungle, oak, red, green and yellow - which creates an obvious stripe when used on a large area. The contrast doesn't seem as pronounced on the birch or whitewashed wood though.

The darker stripe is a holdover from the current texture. You can see it here:

 

[lemonbear]

Any better? (Old vs. New)

 

[AerioOndos]

Yeah, it works much better. idk how it would work with bedrock though

 

[lemonbear]

Looks good in bedrock and basalt rock roofs to me!

 

[lemonbear]

Another before and after comparison. Pretty big changes to oak and northern, only minor changes to jungle.

 

[lemonbear]

A comparison for birch. Gave the vertical planks more contrast.

 

[lemonbear]

Changes so far:

 

[Elduwin]

I prefer the 2nd new set, the one between the current and the 1st new one, too pastel imo.

 

[AerioOndos]

I definitely prefer the third set.