That 'no-code' texture pack tool I swore was a scam actually worked on my first try

I saw this program called TextureSmith advertised on a random modding site for like $15 and thought it was gonna be some virus that would brick my PC or something. It claimed you could just drag and drop photos onto a 3D model and it'd auto-map the textures without writing a single line of XML. I've been burned before with those 'easy modding' tools that just crash or spit out garbage, so I was super skeptical. But after 3 tries messing with the sliders and picking the right UV map template from their library, it actually generated a clean retexture for a Skyrim sword. The result was a bit blurry at the edges, but for zero coding it beat messing with GIMP layers for 2 hours. Has anyone else had good luck with those automated texture mapping tools or is it usually a letdown?

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gonzalez.anna8d ago

bro same here, i saw that TextureSmith ad and was like "yeah right another scam" but i gave in after like a week of seeing it and honestly it kinda worked for my Fallout armor. the edges were a little wonky too but way better than spending hours in GIMP lol

wendy6748d ago

I heard someone say TextureSmith was made by a guy who used to work on Skyrim mods or something