Texture Map Creation
Use DarkTree 2.5 shaded procedural textures to generate top quality texture maps for use in game development, web graphics, and 3D surfacing.


Simbionts are plugins for rendering DarkTree procedural shaders, 3D maps, and materials in leading 3D software packages. Simbionts are free so DarkTree owners can affordably outfit an entire studio and collaborate with other artists.

Simbionts are available for a number of 3D renderers:

3d studio max
Animation:Master
Cinema4D
LightWave3D
Renderman
trueSpace
Third party DarkTree plugins developed using the DTE:

Mental Ray + Softimage XSI and 3ds max6 specific packages.

Deep UV™ is a breakthrough in UV mapping technology. Using unique new mathematical techniques it offers a superior application for the creation and modification of UV mapping for n-polygonal models within an interactive 2D and 3D UV mapping environment. Deep UV includes fast and easy to use tools such as soft selection, relax and 3D UV selection. Whether you are a beginner or a professional 3D artist, you will have the most efficient UV mapping possible with both automatic and advanced features. Deep UV can be used standalone, or with Deep Paint 3D version.

Programs for texture creation and generation, as well as screensavers.

FREEWARE: Texture Processor is the unique program for creating various textures. The basic algorithm placed into the heart of Texture Processor allows to get practically unlimited quantity of complex textures in a minimal amount of time. Texture Processor is intended both for 3d-artists and web-designers. Besides, any other users not able to draw in various graphic editors, will receive full pleasure and breadth of actions, working with free Texture Processor.

Seamless Factory is an easy to use texture maker that accurately stitches images into seamless patterns. The program will be useful for creating website backgrounds, program skins and original wallpapers, also it may be used in 3D modelling. Moreover the application contains a built-in graphic editor with adaptive visual tools and commands for image correction of scanned and processed images. The advanced editor will help you to make professional animation and video effects very quickly.

Syntex allows a texture artist to design images that are different for every run but have the same overall characteristics, much like two pieces of wood from the same tree. These images are suitable for many applications including web page backgrounds, desktop backgrounds, and 3D graphics.

MapRender3D features many advanced controls including custom rendering, projection selection, rotation, sizing, exaggeration, texture draping, lighting, shading, selective elevation color graduation, and a wide range of import and export formats.

MapRender3D in addition to it's wide range of data import formats is supplied with a world data integrated into five seamless compressed databases, each at a different scale. Also supplied are twenty-seven projected world maps, fourteen special maps of the oceans, poles and hemispheres, and more than one hundred projected country and continental maps. These maps are in USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) format.

Hme is a 2D program, used for creating, manipulating and viewing height maps.

A height map is a 2D representation of a 3D terrain. Each 'color' represents a height. HME is built on the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle, and, while it is very easy to use, it also has some advanced features

Procedural texture approach for VFX, Effects, Filters plug-in. Plugins for Photoshop, Combustion and After Effect. Huge texture / 3D materials library.

Texture Workshop is a multifunctional toolbox which allows to turn practically any picture into a repeatable tile very quickly and easily. Such tiles are used as backgrounds of webpages, as wallpapers, as textures for 3D objects and for many other purposes. The program can be used conveniently both by a beginner for creating the very first own home page and by a professional web designer for the large scale work. It can also effectively substitute the well known expensive, "heavy" and demanding experience graphic applications if you need to edit quickly your pictures of any kind. The unique feature of this toolbox is the "tilization procedure". You can take any picture with similar objects (leaves, stones, beans, nuts, bolts etc.) and with a single pressing a button process it so that the right area of the picture will imperceptibly flow into the left area and the lower area will flow into the upper one. In other words, a real repeatable tile will be obtained. The same can be done with a small fragment of a texture (marble, wood, water waves, tissue etc.) to produce a smooth and limitless surface.

Mystica creates unique art for exceptional graphical needs.
It comes with an own effect section, HTML gallery generator, movie generator, and a built-in 3D Engine that allows you to explore and shoot your images and movies in 3D. You can also post-process and explore images of any source

RenderSoft Illusionae is a powerful texture-generation engine for making realistic 3D textures. It creates textures using an algorithmic approach, manipulating formulae and displaying them in the graphical form. It gives you the freedom to explore the generated textures, and change them dynamically. Because of the mathematical nature of the textures, RenderSoft's powerful engine is able to provide an unlimited number of possibilities.