That's a great wood texture. The first and only piece of advice I'd give is to texture
each
floor board individually, applying a translation of the texture for each board.
Currently, I
can tell that you've textured the whole floor 'union' in one go... the grain of one
board
flows perfectly into another board, which would be extremely unlikely to happen in
reality.

Andy Cocker

"Loki" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to create a wooden floor.  Sounds easy, but from a self-education
> point of view I'd like to do the texturing from scratch.  Wondering if
> anyone has any tips on this.  Here's an image of the texture as I have it
> at the moment. (forgive the 'reflective ball and checkered plane' approach,
> the cliche is intentional!)  Can anyone suggest anything to make this more
> realistic looking?  It is very simple currently, using just a single layer
> of a wood pigment.  The only trick I've used is that I've made a macro to
> produce a kind of scale-free turbulence using multiple warps at different
> scales, because I figure wood, being a natural thing, has a kind of
> scale-free fractal structure to it.  Parts of it work pretty well I think,
> but then other bits don't.  Advice?
>
> L
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>


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