Is texturing much more important than modeling?

[22029205]

As title says. Is it true?

[MentaL]

[HellSniper]

It is considering that Gunz is a Fast Paced Third Person Action Shooter based on a old Game Engine.
A Good Texture is half of the Model anyways.

[exercitus]

IMHO, yes.
Good model + bad texture doesn't look good.
Good model + good texture looks good.
Bad model + bad texture doesnt look good.
Bad model + good texture can look good.

Not to forget that textures 'makes' the model. It defines the material u use, and adds interest to whatever you made.


The same model, different textures.

[e1o14]

Wouldn't say it's MUCH more important, but it slightly is. A bad texture can ruin a great model and the other way around, a great texture can save a bad model. Of course both is important, but if you master texturing, you've definitely got a big advantage over the other devs.

[`Styx]

Since 3d computer graphics have changed since 2004, being good with modeling can help greatly on building the base (of a) texture. You can model something high-poly, bake an ambient occlusion texture, then use stocks and other resources. In most modern game engines they use DX9 and beyond, which means the use of bump mapping -- so high poly models can actually be used to bake bump maps as well as ambient occlusion, then be used on low poly mesh.

In short: Is texturing much more important than modeling? I wouldn't say so, a good texture design foundation is built from a good model design foundation. Just because MAIET modeled them low poly in the first place, then drew their textures on it back in 2004 doesn't mean you do.