Re: Help with wood texture maps 2004-04-24 - By K.C. Teis
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Hi Doug,
Wow really nice stuff I hope mine turn out even close. I will see what
I can round up off the web. Thanks again for your help.
Take care,
K.C.
On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Douglas Alden Peterson wrote:
> > So I have created a page that detail what?
> > I am tasked to do please check it out and let me know
> > if you have any? questions. You can view this at my site?
> > http://www.fatcatdesign.com/carrara/
>
>
> K.C.,
>
> I think you're going to have a tough time matching
> all of the wood patterns you need with procedural
> textures. Is there any chance you can contact the
> manufacturer of the woods used and see if they have
> images of their FULL sheets? That will give you much
> better results.
>
> I did a web site for a veneer company and used
> Carrara for a lot of illustrations, but more used texture
> maps of woods I gleaned from the web. The problem
> with many of those textures, however, is that they are
> very low resolution, rarely a repeat patterns and only
> show a small section of a large wood panel.
>
> This illustration is done with procedurals because none
> of the surfaces require large expanses showing the grain:
>
> http://www.oakwoodveneer.com/art/forum.jpg
>
>
> The numbers on this page were all texture maps available
> online -- although I can't remember where I got them all;
> search using Google Images and you should be able to
> locate them or check the free texture sections of major
> 3D web sites:
>
> http://www.oakwoodveneer.com/order.html
>
>
> The panels on this page were texture maps, but the
> logs on the right of the page were procedurals:
>
> http://www.oakwoodveneer.com/tips/cuts.html
>
>
> This particular image was created in an old program I had
> that came with CorelDraw (version 6, I think). It was called
> CorelTexture and made some rather nice woods of a general
> nature; you won't be able to do something like Bird's Eye
> Maple, however:
>
> http://www.oakwoodveneer.com/tips/cut_half.jpg
>
>
> If you have the bucks, there is a photo CD titled, "Executive
> Textures," which has about 30 very nice large expanse images
> of beautiful woods within the 100 images on the disk. It costs
> $399 dollars and I wish I could afford it. I can't remember the
> company that produced it, but if you search for it by title on
> Google, I'm sure it will pop up.
>
>
>
> Doug
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> Graphic Designer
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