New server upgrades

Thanks to Kevin Knasel, the NetRender servers are scheduled for an upgrade! Specifically, we’ll be benefiting from our web hosts new SSD upgrades.

We also have a new texture package we’re putting together. It is a nice compilation that should be particularly useful for architects 🙂

2012 Plant Textures Sale!

Happy 2012!

Our New Year texture sale is underway, checkout our plant textures now featuring our lowest prices ever 🙂

UPDATED: most prices reduced another $10 🙂

Featured products:

Foreground plant textures Vol 1 for $9.99

Tropical plant textures Vol 1 for $39.99$29.99

and the savings go on… see our products page for a complete listing.

Here’s hoping your 2012 is off to a great start and continues to be awesome!

51 Palm Tree Textures!

Our palm tree texture package is complete! We’ve been working on this bad boy for what seems like ages. 😉 Here’s a small little sample, checkout the actual product page for larger sample images. We’ll also be posting some free full-size samples in the near future!

For a week or so we’re running an introductory sale price of $49, after which it’ll be back up to $69.

Happy 2011

We hope you have a happy and prosperous 2011 🙂

This year we’ll be launching a new Premium Palm Tree Textures package, look for it soon!

50% off sale, this week only!

We’re running a 50% off sale this week. All textures are half off.

Have a great week!

Upcoming: Hawaii Photos and Textures

We already have a tropical texture package featuring many images from Hawaii. However, in the coming weeks we’re adding some new free textures via our blog. Let us know if you have any specific textures requests :-).

Stay posted and have a very happy holiday season!

Free texture Saturday: Brick, Rock and Grass

Here are some free textures to use with:

• renderings
• Photoshop
• whatever other project you’re working on :-).

These are free textures for your downloading pleasure. We hope these textures will be helpful to you…

(to see the full size version: click the image, then wait for the page to load and click the photo again for the full size 12MP image)

PS if you need higher quality landscape textures with full alpha channel masks, checkout out commercial textures. This month’s featured texture pack is: Shrubs and Grasses Texture Pack Vol 1. Or checkout our best selling tree textures package.

Free Textures Sunday: Outdoors

We have plenty of high quality textures available for low prices at NetRender.com. However, we are now adding some FREE textures for your downloading pleasure.

We hope these textures will be helpful to you:

(to see the full size version: click the image, then wait for the page to load and click the photo again for the full size 12MP image)

Pealing white paint on wood

Wooden planks/board texture photo

Tiny plants, almost like grass, photo/texture

White and orange cat animal hair texture

Learn about Tree Textures

What are Tree Textures?

What are Tree Textures? Tree textures are images of trees used for computer modeling. The tree images have the background removed so that the trees can be seamlessly integrated into renderings. The renderings can be for architects (houses, landscaping, commercial development) or for game designers (trees for racing games, FPS games, strategy games, etc.).

What makes a good tree texture?

Why are our tree textures good? To begin with, they start out as high quality digital photographs. These photos are taken with DSLRs using appropriate settings and good glass (lenses). The next step is to postprocess the image and make sure it is up to our quality standards. Finally, we remove the background from the image. This last step is one of the most important because it insures that our images will work will Photoshop, Autodesk 3ds Max, FormZ or any other program that supports TIFF image transparency. Our images are “plug and play” or “drag and drop” because they don’t require tweaking to remove fringing etc. This can save untold hours of work during the lifespan of a modeling project.

Questions?

Please post in the comments and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Cheap textures: all textures on sale, get em’ while they’re hot!

We’re having our first ever texture sale over at NetRender. Every texture package is 35% off, but this is a limited time offer. In the middle of March prices are back to normal.

Once the sale is over  we’ll be adding some new texture packages and it will be time for us to get outdoors once again to take photos.  We’re expanding our number of tree textures, flower textures, and palm textures.

John has also been working on his website. Many of the renderings in his portfolio section use NetRender textures, so head over there to checkout his work if you get the chance.