Whre could we find huge textures of wood paneling.

[jean de lessard]

Hi everyone,

 

We are looking to buy huge textures of wood paneling ( like 20 feet X 20feet ) in real life. Maple wood or exotic wood....

 

The main problem is that usually, we find repeatable textures etc... But in real life there is no repeatable tiles in the wood grain of maple or oak or other paneling.

 

Any http://www... idea where to buy them.

 

we look at arroway, turbosquid, animax, mayan, lemog etc... nothing there.

[louis.cho]

Hi Mr. De Lessard

 

I recently discover a free seamless wook texture maker. It's called Wood Workshop. I didn't explore it very much for now but it's seem promising. http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

 

I think It's a light version of their other software Genetica who is much powerful.

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/gen2tour/index.htm

 

in what type of paneling are you interested? plywood or other?

[jean de lessard]

Hummm,.

 

Merci Louis, but the general feeling of this kind of product provide generic wood.

 

thanks for your help. :-)

[edub]

Hi everyone,

 

We are looking to buy huge textures of wood paneling ( like 20 feet X 20feet ) in real life. Maple wood or exotic wood....

 

The main problem is that usually, we find repeatable textures etc... But in real life there is no repeatable tiles in the wood grain of maple or oak or other paneling.

 

Any http://www... idea where to buy them.

 

we look at arroway, turbosquid, animax, mayan, lemog etc... nothing there.

 

In real life you'll never find a single piece of wood paneling at 20ftx20ft... I you look at most veneer wood panels (plywood), you'll actually notice a fair amount of repetition. This is caused by the way the wood is sliced off the trunk. It's actually peeled in a spiral motion from the outside in. The veneer is usually "bookmarked" to look mirrored, which helps crreate symmentry, but inevitably makes it look 'fake'.

 

Only in rare cases (or from very old times) will you have panels made from solid chunks of wood.

 

Just trying to save you the time of looking for that large of a texture of wood - you'll never find it.

[jean de lessard]

thnaks edub,

 

we know that usually, the maximum size of the wood paneling in construction is near 8' X 4'. it could goes to 10' X 4' maximum.

 

What we are looking for is .... Is there anything that is near that we could find.

 

thanks a lot

[Sawyer]

http://store.got3d.com/products/120-wood-textures/index.html

 

http://store.got3d.com/products/90-high-resolution-wood-textures/index.html

 

I have the second one and I use it all the time.

[jean de lessard]

Merci Sawyer,

 

i have a question about those, what about the look. do they look generic wood. Or it's near real life ? Cause if i look at the rpeview of those i see on got 3d, i see a size of a maybe 6 inchesX 12 inches in real life. And the mapping we are looking fo ris more near 4 feet by 8 feet.

 

thanks

[edub]

Merci Sawyer,

 

i have a question about those, what about the look. do they look generic wood. Or it's near real life ? Cause if i look at the rpeview of those i see on got 3d, i see a size of a maybe 6 inchesX 12 inches in real life. And the mapping we are looking fo ris more near 4 feet by 8 feet.

 

thanks

 

Oh yeah, I have the same one as Sawyer.

 

Not really as high res as I'd hoped, and are actually made from a smaller source image that has been repeated w/ cloning - but in a fairly random way.

 

I'd say they are good for doing some medium-detail object - not really the size you're talking about.

[Sawyer]

They are not 8' sections so you will have to spend some time with them in PS. And make sure that they have the texture you want because I found the version I had does not have pine which is something I wanted. I would estimate these images are about 2'x4' but I could be wrong.

 

The quality is great I have been happy with how the jpgs look but honestly I would only ever need maybe 20 of the textures as some of them are so exotic that I don't see them ever being called out on a job. You will find elements that repeat but I think some of that may be because of how the wood was peeled. Not identical knots but very similar. These are very specific wood textures that I imagine were taking from wood veneer samples. No bump maps or additional maps were provided.

[jean de lessard]

the main problem with that, is everyone who are doing those hi-res woods are taking a picture at 12''from the material. They should take picture at 8 feet from the wood to have a global view.

 

We already have those kind of wood .... but we want to save time in the Post-prod department.... if we could find larger mapping. ?

 

:-)

[egmehl]

It is a little more expensive and time consuming, but I just bought veneer from a woodworking supplier, scanned it on my regular old 8.5x11 scanner and stitched them together afterwards. It got me 8-16" wide strips about 8' long, and I could control the exact quality based on the scan settings (I scanned it all in at 200dpi, which created huge files, but allowed me to downsize at will for the actual render texture maps).

 

After you have that, you can arrange it just like you were a carpenter to get book-matched panels or whatever you like.

 

Pretty tedious, but maybe you have an intern laying around?

 

- Eric

[ipxstudios]

I would just create it in photoshop