# Metal Panel Texture

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-panel-texture/274520>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-panel-texture/274520 "2008-10-30T21:32:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![riveroaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@riveroaks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/riveroaks)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-panel-texture/274520/1 "2008-10-30T21:32:29Z")

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Can anyone point me to a tutorial or resource that can help me create a texture of metal panels? A stereotypical example of what I want to create is the background texture on the left and right sides of the Starcraft II website ([http://www.starcraft2.com/](http://www.starcraft2.com/))

The metal texture itself isn’t too difficult, but I want to create realistic panels with that texture, and I’m not sure how to do that without painstakingly drawing each line and highlighting or shading each edge.

Thanks.