I am in love with this piece of high resolution wood background. I would love to use it in other projects.
For now, it’s just a photo of the piece, but we’re hoping to create a larger version of this for future projects. If you’re interested in finding out more about the piece, you can find out more about it here.
This is a little different than the other wood backgrounds that we’ve mentioned, but these were the first ones to make it out into our game. We will start with a simple wood background background (you did it!) and then we will have a couple more to work with.
Our game is currently in the final stage of adding new assets to the background and we will continue adding more to the background in the near future. The background is currently in 1:1 resolution so it can be scaled up and down later on. The original background is in.jpg format so we will need to convert it to.gif or.png format later.
The wood textures are pretty simple but very nice. They are made out of 10 layers of wood and each layer in the background is 2×2 pixels in size. They are based on a 3.5″ high resolution file so they will definitely fit in nicely with our game’s look and feel.
A high resolution background can be a bit of a pain in the butt to paint, but the results are worth it in my opinion. It can take a while to get it just so, but the end result is well worth the time investment.
I remember when I first got into painting wood. I used to spend hours trying to get the best texture out of the wood I had, but I always missed the mark. I think now I have a more refined approach. I don’t spend hours and hours trying to get the best texture out of the wood, I just get a few layers of it and layer them over each other. A nice thing about this process is that it creates some nice grain on the wood.
I think the most important thing to remember about wood is that it is a living material. You can always bring new wood in to change it, but it also has to be used in the correct way to improve the finish. When I was finishing this room, I took a very thin section of the veneer and put it on a piece of cardboard. I then rubbed it in a very light coat of sandpaper, then rubbed it again to give it better texture.
I used a piece of the same veneer as I did with the cardboard above, but made it a bit thicker to accommodate the thicker wall. For the thicker wall it was a lot easier to get a good quality veneer on the cardboard.
A key difference between the two veneers is that the cardboard is the same size as the veneer I used in my tutorial. In Deathloop, you have a 3D model of the veneer, but it’s not exactly similar to the cardboard. The thinner, more realistic veneer will work perfectly, but the more realistic one will be too heavy and too stiff for you.
