Wood Test

Tiberius · February 18, 2006, 4:01pm

For another WIP I need a good wood texture. For that I made some tests and I was surprised that taking a (highres) texture + some nor on the same picture is an quite easy way to get almost/already acceptable results.

Here is a simple demo picture. It’s just a cube which I uv mapped with the wood image. The edges do just contain the continuation of the texture. I added some unrelated stuff on it to make it a bit interesting. (the raptor is from 2.73a demo files - not me

Blender 2.41 / Yafray 0.0.8

What is your most favourite wood texturing tutorial?

Thanks!

cekuhnen · February 18, 2006, 4:07pm

the wood is to low res, the specular to strong and makes it look like polished plastic. otherwise it is good

Tiberius · February 18, 2006, 4:11pm

the texture is 2200x1500

cekuhnen · February 18, 2006, 4:36pm

mh ok, too bad. how doe sit look with a more high res texture?

claas

Ryz · February 18, 2006, 4:50pm

I find the bump on the first plank just a bit too harsh. I had a lot of fun with dinosaur, which at first I thought was a really strange looking banana peel

Maybe a bit more spec, but less hard…

cekuhnen · February 18, 2006, 8:41pm

dar i did not understood it first. you did not model any bevels onto the wood.
edge highloghts are missing. try that as well.

Tiberius · February 19, 2006, 1:46am

hmm, dont know what edge highlights are??

there was no bevel - just a cube. now I changed filter to 0.1, reduced nor by 25% and also spec by 50%. I also added a 1-step bevel.

the bevel is not bad but overall I see only a little improvement.

xrqlz · February 22, 2006, 7:50am

good work, but dump the bevel. It looks wierd with the texture IMHO.

-x