Ive searched everywhere for a decent wood tut for months and I have yet to find one that looks any good at all, so I was wondering if any of you great skiners out there could give me a good wood tut or direct me to one.

A very very very basic way would be Starting with a brown texture, apply 40 gaussian, monochromatic noise to it. Then use Crystalize(Under the pixelate menu) set it to 3. then use motion blur with distance set to 50 or something. That's a very basic way too do it.

No one does wood from scratch :) Go to www.3dcafe.com or any other free textures/models site and find some good wood textures and use them.

I, for one, can't find any real "textures" of wood. Only distant photoes of tree's! Care too link further? :P

er-hum, ripa, I do all my wood textures from scratch by hand. It takes more work, but, it pays off in the end, because you are mroe proud of what you have accomplished. Here's a render of a gun i made for the next release of BG mod.

another view

and, the bitmap itself.

Now, i'm going to give you the basics of how I make my wood. I'm not gonna tell you everything, since most of it is my own techniques i've learned over time, and the best way to improve is learn on you own:

Fist, start off with two brownish colors. Make the forground color lighter than the background color. Then, Filter > Render > Clouds. Next, go to Filter > Artistic > Sponge. Make the settings, 0, around 15-25 (depending on how much grain i wantt o be visible), 1. Then, go to Filter > Noise > Addnoise. In the settings, make it monochromatic, and have the percentage at your liking, once again, depending on how much grain u want visible. Next is the part that takes the most practice and getting used to. Go to Filter > Distort > Shear. In the settings, play around with the graph box, making lines zigzag from side to side. You have to play around alot to get the effet you want.

That's all i feel like sharing. Feel free to experiment, and do what you feel is neccessary. Hoped i atleast helped a little.

MrFu is a fair guy, teach him something and he'll teach you something. :D!

Best way to skin wood is to photoskin it. Wood made from scratch looks weird, so go take a digital camera and take pictures of woodgrain and then crop out what you need, apply proper lighting, shading, scratches, etc.

a way i learned to make crappy wood:

create a new image 500 x 500
fill with color R: 111 G: 101 B: 83
then: filter -> noise -> add noise
amount 5. gaussian. monochromatic
then duplicate the layer
then filter -> pixelate -> christallize
cell size 10.
then filter -> blur -> motion blur
amount 999
and repeat the motion blur like 2 times
then go filter -> sharpen -> sharpen
en repeat the sharpen filter until the strokes are sharp
then set the layer mode to overlay
then go image -> adjustments -> hue/saturation (ctrl+u)
check the colorize box
and play with the bars
(i have; hue: 25 saturation: 25 lightness: 0)
press ok and you should have some home made crappy wood a la blockbuster style ;)
you can play around with amounts and use other colors... but this is just a basic way to do it

(ps: can we turn this into a sticky, for the people who like to know how to make wood)

Originally posted by Dillinger
Best way to skin wood is to photoskin it. Wood made from scratch looks weird, so go take a digital camera and take pictures of woodgrain and then crop out what you need, apply proper lighting, shading, scratches, etc.

Best? No. Easyest? Yes.

the way i do my wood, or at least the first wood i learned to do, is extremely easy. i use better methods now.

-make a large canvas, about 600x600
-choose a brown color and fill it, any brown will do, depending on what color you want your wood to be.
-add noise..say.. about 30-40%
-motion blur at 0 degrees, at about 30%
-select all, free transform, then shrink it to about half the page.
-highlight the half you made and duplicate it (Ctrl+Alt & drag) to the other empty half to make the wood grain tighter.
-repeat last step if you wish to make the wood grain tighter.

then crop it to a weapon or something and add the nessasary scratches, shading, etc,etc.

i like it because it works perfectly on weapons that used plain wood, this is a sort of walnut grain.

In my opinion, using high resolution wood grain textures has a far better outcome than any tutorial, program, or filter I've ever seen.

Originally posted by Mike[1stid]
Best? No. Easyest? Yes. Not as easy as it sounds. And I think ANYONE will agree that photo skinned wood is a million times better than photoshopped wood.

Well this is the best I can make from scratch. Too bad I didn't take notes of the settings I used. All I remember is that I had three layers of different browns. I used noise and motion blur and probably some other filters as well. Shear filter was used for that weaving pattern.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~vuonnala/riston/mp28_model8.jpg

www.woodworking.org has soem good wood textures :/

Originally posted by ripa
Well this is the best I can make from scratch. Too bad I didn't take notes of the settings I used. All I remember is that I had three layers of different browns. I used noise and motion blur and probably some other filters as well. Shear filter was used for that weaving pattern.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~vuonnala/riston/mp28_model8.jpg

Looks very good ripa, i like it...:)