Looking for your input on good wood

[andrewjohn81]

I've got an order for the evermotion texture volume 1. Those woods looks pretty good. I also ordered one set from Turbosquid.
There's a 15 pack that looks good there, but they end up being over 2usd a piece. That seems a little steep.

I was also looking at the dosch ones, but they don't seem to really have much variety. The quality looks good. Turbosquid also has another pack that has a lot of wood, but none of the textures look like they are really in focus, so i don't think they would look that great rendered.

Anyone have some good input on where else to get some to add to the collection. The designers are always picky here about what wood to put on cabinets or trim or whatever. We've got a decent collection of ones that we've found here and there, but it's not great so we decided to get some money together and just pay for a decent collection.

[beestee]

Check out arroway's textures, they never disappoint.

Also, there are a few free sites out there that have pretty good collections of wood textures(check out the "Free Textures" sticky thread in this forum)...then you can use crazybump to come up with some decent bump/displacement maps.

[andrewjohn81]

yeah, I saw the free textures section, but we just want to have a good library so we aren't always looking for free textures. It's just so much easier and really isn't all that expensive.

That site Does have some really nice textures. I was looking for more wood veneers than flooring, but I've recommended we purchase that as well. The cement ones also look very nice. That is often hard to find. Thanks for the find.

[Codi]

Yep, arroway is a sure bet.

I don't know any commercial veener libray (I'd be interested in a good one aswel), but you can check http://cgtextures.com/, and the ones posted by re:FORM in the free textures thread (http://perspectives.trespa.com/natur...html/wood.html) for some pretty good woods.

Cheers.

[jonahhawk]

When it comes to wood, I almost always end up building new textures in PS. Start with a sample and mirror it, offset it, change it, offset some more, shrink it, stretch it, overlay it, clone it, hue shift... done.

sorry, not much help. But I feel your pain. It's the worst when they give you a sample that is so small it's nearly useless. "Can't you just scan it?"

[Morne]

I take a slight caveman approach to this. With old max I think version 1 to 5 there came a file in "Woods" folder called, hmmm I dont recall the original actual filename but I since renamed it to "Cherry Wood.jpg" I think the original is something like chrwd.jpg or something. There were two versions, a crappy one, and the second a brown redish one. The second on has very good grain etc. Since MAX come with archmtl they dont include that specific cherry wood file anymore, dont know why.

Anycase, I use that file for almost every wood. In bitmap just push up output slightly or most often bring it down a lot to get darker wood. Sometimes I change the colours in photoshop to get what I want. This works for almost every situation except obviously if you need floor planks.

The only wood I never really could get right or download anywhere is maple. The pinky maple that come with MAX is useless. Here designers use the yellowy, white kind, almost cream colour maple. I always struggle with this one. It comes out too white or too yellow, and they always complain they can't see the grain

Kind Regards,
Morne

[Neilg]

Learn how to photoshop quicker and use cgtextures.com

There are plenty of stock photo sites around that give you enough material to make your own.

[andrewjohn81]

I am confident in my skills in photoshop to make an acceptable wood. The problem is the designers are extremely picky and don't seem to know what they want. They come in and tell me a description, so that's what I create. Then they look again, and say, "yeah, that's what I asked for, but I don't think it's going to work." then they ask for something completely different.

I think if we have a prebuilt larger library of veneers they can choose from and we can go from there it'll just cut down the process a bit. I can always change the color.

About coming with small samples. If that was the case it wouldn't be so bad because, yes, you can scan it and create a wood from that. Even if it's unuseable I can find a wood that looks similar, then photoshop it to match. The problem is they never seem to know what they want. We bought a couple sets, hopefully that'll get us started. If not, we only wasted about 125usd.

I appreciate the help, and constructive crits.

[nvanherpt]

GOT3D

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPrevie....cfm/ID/219662

[thablanch]

http://www.veneerwood.com/engl/furnier/furnier.html

http://www.defcon-x.de/textures/

[andrewjohn81]

I saw the Got3d ones. Looks like a good collection, but the images are too small. Often that's big enough, like for animations, but for still images printed 5 feet tall it's too small. For anyone doing animation or only smaller prints those look great. Thanks for the find.

The Veneerwood.com site is awesome. If for nothing else, to quickly see what kind of wood we'd want to use. That's a great site. Same problem though. The images aren't quite big enough.

The other site? Wow, those are great. Thanks for that one. Those are definitely workable. Thanks.

[EricKlein]

Here's an interesting reference...lots of detail~

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

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[beestee]

Hobbithouse is an excellent resource, I used it in conjunction with PixPlant yesterday to create a quick tileable laminate:

[peterguthrie]

some great links in here, especially the hobbithouse and defcon ones.

This might be useful to someone: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcolle...orestry/hough/

It has scans from a book called 'The American Woods', the wood plates themselves are quite small, but interesting nonetheless.