So, what’s that Genetica thingie all about, you ask? Textures, really. Spiral Graphics did a splendid job of giving us one of the best – if not THE best – tools for texturers working on commercial games, movies, presentations and all the other multimedia projects you can think of. Basically, if you’re involved in texturing work or 3d graphics on a daily basis, if you use up lots of seamless textures and need them to perfectly suit your design needs… You need Genetica. Spiral Graphics Genetica.
 

 

Here’s how it works. You need some kind of a unique texture for your newest game project. It may be a texture of some burnt-up grass, or a cracked concrete wall, or even a weird, half-metallic, half-organic skin texture for a hideous alien monster from the Biber Galaxy. Usually, you could look up some royalty-free textures at our Store, or go out on a photo-hunt with your trusty gigawatt-powered camera, but – and here’s one important „but” – this time you’re pretty sure that you won’t find what you need anywhere, and even if you do, it won’t be as detailed as you need it to be (for example, you may need it in a wild resolution, somewhere around 3000×3000 pixels). This is where Spiral Graphics Genetica truly shines.

Genetica is a lot more than just your usual texture-making software. It is a powerful node-based combination of a texture resynthesis tool with a texture generator, in which you – yes, YOU, not the software itself – can control each step of the way, producing exactly the textures you need, in the right size, color, pattern, substance and lightning. You can either start with one of the many texture presets already provided by Spiral Graphics, search their forums for some user submitted ones, or just start from scratch, by using various „labs” (generation algorythms) and advanced nodes providing you with tools and possibilites that the competition just doesn’t have. You can start in the middle, you can start at the very beginning, you can do anything you want – just click a node, set its properties and see how Genetica transforms the final texture accordingly to your actions.

If you’re one of the people who are easily overwhelmed by vast possibilites and options presented to you by software you’re using, better stick to the presets and don’t touch Genetica’s more advanced features. Genetica comes equipped with vector-based professional drawing tools that you can use to create full-fledged texture compositions, and a powerful set of lab systems that enable you to generate almost any substance or material in the universe. Liquids? Check. Hair and fur? Check. Weird-ass noise-based textures that look like someone just pulled them from another universe? Check. Although some textures may be harder to produce than others, Genetica offers you infinite possibilites and enables you to create every frakkin’ texture you may ever need for any of your projects – including the really bizarre ones.

Want more? Then how about enviromental reflections applied with a single click? Shadows and ambient occlusion? Normal maps? 3D effect maps? HDRI Environments? A batch processor? Or the awesome option (available only in Genetica Studio edition) to generate fully seamless, fully animated textures of fire, water, snow, plasma, magma and other awesome effects?

We’ve been creating textures for years now, both for commercial and non-commercial projects, and – believe us or not – Genetica is the best texturing software we’ve seen since troglodytes invented cave scribbling (well, that, and Adobe inventing Photoshop of course). And the bast part of it all? You can get it at our Game Design Store for a price lower than the producer’s! Ladies and gentlemen, get the ultimate texture maker before we run out!

Buy Genetica at the Panzer Flakes Game Design Store

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