Wood Assistance

[peakyfreak80]

Need a little help here. I've got this wood sample to replicate: http://www.sarasotarockers.com/woodg...eleSapele.html

Having a very difficult time with it. Here's my current attempt:

Diffuse: Regular Wood map mixed with toned down version of this
Reflect: Same as above but a the color of the highlight
Reflection Glossiness: Desaturated, high contrast version of the wood

Its just not popping like I'd like it to.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[beestee]

The turbulence fractal type could possibly help.

[duke2]

Forget the diffuse and anything else and dick around with noise in the anistropic direction slot. Once that's right, the rest should be straight forward.

[nils_p]

Nice one Duke....never thought about that

[percydaman]

might be possible to map your shader to a large plane, and then use a noise or something in the bump map slot. Then render that out and use it as your diffuse minus the bump.

[peakyfreak80]

Sorry for the delay guys. I'm finally back at work. I'm going to try all those out today and post some results. Promising ideas!

[peakyfreak80]

I'm posting some images over on the Images forum with the new wood material. I ended up using a high contrast B&W version of the wood sample I had in the Anisotropic slot. VERY helpful. Learned a new technique. Lets see where else I can use that!

Thanks for all the suggestions


peakyfreak


http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ferrerid=87088

[nils_p]

I'm posting some images over on the Images forum with the new wood material. I ended up using a high contrast B&W version of the wood sample I had in the Anisotropic slot. VERY helpful. Learned a new technique. Lets see where else I can use that!

Thanks for all the suggestions


peakyfreak


http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ferrerid=87088

I'd ease abit down on the contrast. It kinda looks like bad jpeg compression