Hi,

I'm trying to create a texture for my tree, (plant object) I only have the attached reference pic. Anybody know what the best method is to create a texture (preferably procedural)?
Would Inagoni's Veloute or Digital Carvers Guild Enhance:C help?

Thanks!

Personally I use my own bark textures. You can edit this down in Photoshop or another photo app. and have a very nice texture to use. Just plug it into the Color Channel / Texture Map

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

What it looks like on a cylinder. This is about 5 minutes work. With more time it could smoothed out much more. As to the products you mentioned, I have never used them so I can not really say.

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Personally, I prefer texture maps over procedural maps - especially for trees - because they render significantly faster if you have more than just a few. 

 I snagged the good work that Thelby did created a shader and put it on a tree without leaves. (This is what coffee breaks are for, right?)

Abdolutely Right!!!  **;^)
**That does look nice on the tree.

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Wow, thank you so very much for the texture!
Didn't expect the reference pic was good enough to create a texture from it, but it turned out really nice!

That texture looks great now! Nice work on the tree Mark.

So much here---AND FREE!

http://www.cgtextures.com/

Brian

bwtr

Yeah, I love that site Brian. I've used a ton of their textures. Lemog's free textures is a great source for lower rez (512x512) tiling textures  http://www.lemog.fr/lemog_textures/index.php.

I do procedural shading and then bake it to a BMP to speed up rendering after the BMP has been run through CrazyBump first for other uses in Carrara.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

Shawn:

Is there a rendering speed advantage to a bmp over a jpg?

Klebnor

Lotus 123 ~ S-Render ~ OS/2 WARP ~ IBM 8088 / 4.77 Mhz ~ Hercules Ultima graphics, Hitachi 10 MB HDD, 64K RAM, 12 in diagonal CRT Monitor (16 colors / 60 Hz refresh rate), 240 Watt PS, Dual 1.44 MB Floppies, 2 button mouse input device.  Beige horizontal case.  I don't display my unit.

Same rendering speed.  But BMP uses far more RAM than JPG does.

I mentioned BMP because BMP is good for using as your source image that you later create your bump, displacement, highlight, diffuse, etc. image maps from which you then save in JPG format and use instead of BMP in Carrara so that you don't kill your RAM.

I use 15% compression for my JPG saving.  It doesn't lose too much detail and keeps the files small enough.

If you do use BMP and your hard drive is grinding away during a render, you don't have enough RAM and your Carrara rendering speed takes a hit.  Then you have to use JPG or GIF.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

The large size differential is the main reason I tend to default to jpg.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Klebnor

Lotus 123 ~ S-Render ~ OS/2 WARP ~ IBM 8088 / 4.77 Mhz ~ Hercules Ultima graphics, Hitachi 10 MB HDD, 64K RAM, 12 in diagonal CRT Monitor (16 colors / 60 Hz refresh rate), 240 Watt PS, Dual 1.44 MB Floppies, 2 button mouse input device.  Beige horizontal case.  I don't display my unit.

In an artistic way, my point of view is that procedural shaders are like painting and give you much more powerful effects. I found out that bitmap images are a little bit "flat" for renders. That's why I made the "barks and trunks" set. Just my opinion ;)

 
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