LIGHTWAVE V9 TEXTURING

Chapter 22Wood Surfaces

Wood surfaces are one of the surfaces that I am generally quite lazy with. Ordinarily I love painting textures, but wooden surfaces are just a pain because the burls and knots are tricky details to paint. So I always tend to use photographs to create them instead. What’s the point in struggling with painting textures when a photograph is perfectly adequate? And the cool thing about wood is that there are loads of photos available, and, like rusty metal, many are highly suited to being used as textures since they don’t tend to have lighting information in them, especially in the case of finished woods such as wood parquet and other household woods that tend to be smooth.

Most texture CD-ROM collections have hundreds of ...