In 1999, I launched one of the pioneering texture libraries, FUTUREHAUS—Mapping the Imagination, in the venerable CD-ROM format. Times have changed, and this venture will be a combination of standalone products and an expanding subscription service for 3D artists and game creators.
The central goal will be to offer an enticing collection of textures suitable for science fiction models and scenes, including textures for spacefaring vessels, space stations, mecha, droids, instrument panels, planets, and more. One of the most important aspects of the collection will be an expansive variety of seamless grunge maps to layer over things in Photoshop to customize the levels of distress and weathering to taste.
Also, if you are a compositing freak, many individual pipes, grates, air vents, rivets, and cool bread-and-butter sci-fi nurnies will be included as Photoshop documents with transparency so that you can quickly customize aspects of the DRONEFACE collection or whip up hand-made textures of your own for specific parts of your scenes.
Below are just a few examples at 512 x 512, representing the variety of this 1000+ array of assets in 2048 x 2048 resolution. The vast majority of the collection is seamless.
Composed almost exclusively with primitives, this very basic scene illustrates the usefulness of three of the piping textures and one instrument panel map within the collection. They create the illusion of complexity without massive amounts of geometry.
