Wood texture on edge

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Hello Everyone

I’m new to Blender but not 3D. Mostly I use 3D to make elements for my graphic design. I am working on a website and need to have a wood table edge of sorts. I’m using a texture I created a long time ago to use in Strata Pro. However I can’t get the texture to look right on the near edge as you can see. I don’t have much time to fiddle with this. Any ideas on the texture would be great, also on the lighting. This is just a background element so it doesn’t have to be perfect, but I wanted to take this chance to get to know blender better.

Thanks
Richie
http://www.shortbird.biz/images/woodedge.jpg

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Best to do it with UV mapping. There are a number of tutorials, just check the list in general, and then if you can’t solve it, feel free to ask again.

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or if you want to do it just like that try setting the texture map to a cube instead of flat, this can be found in matriels in texture panel

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that’s a nice plank of wood is that