What makes a BAD texture a BAD texture?
Bad textures have seams running from top to bottom and polar pinching.
- you can see a very obvious seam in this texture
- this is just showing polar pinching on the north
bad textures have this issue on both poles
You don't want any seams like these in your textures.
A good texture has no seams "(other then joints created by different data strips like titan)"
- (this is a topography map of miranda)
as you can see you don't see any seams running through top to bottom in this texture
- some of the land features in this topography map may be mistaken for polar pinching but there is no polar pinching here
What makes a GOOD texture a GOOD texture?
BONUS INFO you need to know
A good resolution for good textures is 1k+ resolution (depending on what your PC can handle)
(some time i'll post a tutorial on how to make good textures without the seams as described in the bad texture part of this post)