[Leovenous]

Even though this is about texture, it is a texture WIP, so I think this is the right place.

I am on kind of a texture quest. Right now I am trying to see the difference between slapping an image on the color layer, and the same on the bump layer. I also have it on the diff layer at a low opacity.

What I am working on is neutralizing the bright and dark spots so I have a proper color layer, then making a bump layer right, and a diff layer from the corrected bump layer. I want to make it pretty simple, but I don't know if that's possible.

So, here is the result of the quick and dirty method with a cubic projection. Your wisdom is welcome.

[Fallenswordsman]

Excellent piece of texturing work there, Leovenous! I love it. Wish I could texture like that but I don't think I can scan a tree on my current scanner. Which raises the question - how on earth did you go about doing this? Surely you haven't hand painted it in photoshop have you? If you have then even more impressive! Sorry I can't help but texturing has always been a very weak point for me. I never usually get a model finished to texture in the first place!

[Leovenous]

Well, texturing is my weak point also, which is what is prompting this crusade. I think a lot of lightwavers stand where I do, so I think it may help people to share what I am learning.

This tree was disgustingly simple. I took the picture I am posting below (same res), tweaked it a tiny bit in Photoshop and slapped it on a pipe. Cubic projection. Not perfect, but you can see the result. I copied that color layer and pasted it into the bump layer, then the diffusion layer, setting the dif layer to 20% opacity.

Thats it. Render away.

It can be improved though, and that is what I am trying to do. For instance on particularly the right edge it starts to fade into a black. Really it should be more of a green or a brown, from the refracted light of the leaves. Not sure how to do that but I'll take suggestions and keep all posted.

It does look pretty freaking real, doesnt it.

[Fallenswordsman]

Looks absolutely ace, Leovenous - I'm going to give that a go once I get home! Can't believe it would be that simple to do! Thanks for sharing. Any chance of posting a bigger image of the original so I can pinpoint any areas that you may improve upon. My eyes aren't quite what they once were!