Wood material

[andrew]

Thinking to purchase keyshot, if..

Can wood material be made so it has end grain? instead of wrapping the map around all sides of object.

Andrew

[PhilippeV8]

Is there any software at all that can do this ??

[caden2010]

You need to apply 2 different textures. One for the main surface and the other for the end grain. There needs to be 2 different colours on the model imported into KeyShot.

[jjeconomaki]

It is entirely possible to do wood;

http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php/topic,1826.msg6804.html#msg6804

This involved three separate scans but really easy.

Hope this helps.

John

[andrew]

Sold!
I was hoping for a miracle, can sell my chisels now.

Thanks John
Andrew

[jjeconomaki]

Andrew-

Are you a tool maker?

-John

[PhilippeV8]

Just wondering ... is there a software that can auto-map wood textures ?  That should be fun.

[jjeconomaki]

What we really need are procedural woods--all one would have to do is indicate grain direction and it would map beautifully without the hassles of positioning faces.

AND, a little birdie told me that such a solution is in someone's bag of tricks at the home office...

John

[PhilippeV8]

http://www.klaasnienhuis.nl/WordPress/2011/09/3d-wood-texture-by-jerry-ylilammi-berconmaps/

ok, so it DOES exist ... that's interesting

[m2tts]

That is wild!

[KeyShot]

We do have procedural wood and many other procedural materials implemented in the KeyShot engine. To expose them we mainly need to figure out a good user interface. It will happen in the not-too-distant future.

[PhilippeV8]

WHOODT ! :p  That's excelent news