For people who want a wood grain texture with the natural irregularities and knots and "crotch figure" etc that happen in natural wood, and showing correctly on all faces of the object, please make a type of 3D texture map that links to a Python script; for each position X Y Z in the object, the script outputs R G B as the red green blue color values at position X Y Z.

See the Youtube videos at this link https://www.youtube.com/user/mcremona/videos for examples, particularly the videos about making walnut furniture.

I agree with you there. Would be perfect but good parametric recipes for realistic wood textures are hard to get by. That said a set of 'sockets' into which one can 'plug' a compiled function takng zyz, and normal and returning color, alpha, and so on would give very nice possibilities.

Tip: waiting for the proposal to be implemented (LOL) I use Marvelous Designer to define wood panels and import the model as .FBX. In MD I cut the planks and the beams like I would with a bandsaw. The texture wrapping looks pretty convincing quarter sawn, even at the butt ends and in holes.

The below is textured with a 1600x1600 pixels seamless wood texture with a bump map. Raw MD model, rendered in Poser 11

FVerbaas posted at 5:15PM Tue, 20 October 2020 - #4401864

... good parametric recipes for realistic wood textures are hard to get by. ...

There are still people who are good at writing computer programs including Python scripts; one such who is also a woodworker could have a go..He would need to use random-number functions to get it realistic.

Where can I get Marvelous Designer?

Random numbers library is in the standard libraries that come with Poser. Bigger problem is the speed. you will not normally want to run texturing funcions over a scripted language like Python. You will want machine code like C. PoserPython is not very friendly on own-added modules.

You cant get Marvelous Designer at their site. There is a free 30 days trial. No cost or credit card reservation needed but you must register with your email.

About my first message :: letting the attached Python script also output the transparency at each point (X,Y,Z) would also be useful.