I joined up just now out of curiousity for the modelling challenges run through this forum, and I noticed in the current challenge's rules that no photosourcing was allowed in the creation of textures. What's photosourcing generally taken to mean at Sumea? Does forbidding it mean you can't do something like, say, use a photo of a rusty metal panel as a base on which to paint decals/highlights/shadows/etc? Is there a FAQ or something for these challenges' rules?
By definition photosourcing is sourcing material from a photo of any kind. Whether this be copy pasting one straight into the texture, using it as a base to start from, or using it as an overlay to cheat in some extra detail.
So no photosourcing means you're not allowed to do any of that - it has to be all of your own original work.
yeah i think that's what it is, using scanned images and photos as textures.