I need some advice for making a 4k texture.

relican3

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Hey, I need some advice I want to make this texture here https://imgur.com/a/UmBX0po look much more realistic like these here https://wallpaperscraft.com/catalog/textures/3840x2160 my image is smaller size like 128 x 128 and thats the image I want to fix is there some tool out there that can make them look like that because I have used photoshop and it seems to not have a good solution mabe its just me but any tools out there that these game dev's use to make this amazing 4k textures for there games that look so realistic.
 
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This all depends on what you're trying to do, exactly.

You can make a large image with as much 'detail' as you want.
But a 128x128 image only has 128 pixels across and down to work with. If you try to "expand" that, it will look like junk.

If you take a very large image and shrink it down to 128x128, you lose the vast majority of the detail.

So...what are you trying to do, and why?

relican3

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Okay, would it be a better solution to make your own textures instead of using a smaller texture?
 

USAFRet

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This all depends on what you're trying to do, exactly.

You can make a large image with as much 'detail' as you want.
But a 128x128 image only has 128 pixels across and down to work with. If you try to "expand" that, it will look like junk.

If you take a very large image and shrink it down to 128x128, you lose the vast majority of the detail.

So...what are you trying to do, and why?
 
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