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Hi!
I am curently trying to find a way to make real looking turned wood.

The challenge is that wood is a 3 dimentional material, like a roll of papier, meaning that on some faces we see the grain of the wood, on others we see the rings of the tree, and that on curved shapes there is a transition between the two. I was thinking about projecting a texture of the section of a tree along the Z axis of the piece, but I don’t found no good enough image textures, and I suspect it to look very bad along the grain.

Does anyone know how to make real looking wood ? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Surely you could come up with a more descriptive title for this topic, don’t you think?

You should research on procedral textures to create wood.
Just some examples:

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It would help if you posted images of what you’re trying to achieve and what you already have.