I have a good collection (purchased and freebie) of various tree bark textures, but the one kind I can't find anywhere is for palm trees. Either coconut palm, date palm, king palm, or any kind. I'm wondering 2 things... 1. Anyone got any palm bark textures they're willing to share? 2. Would any of our fellow Vue-ers who live in tropical climate be willing to take some good hi-rez pics of palm tree bark that we could use to make textures for Vue? I love the Vue palm trees (and see from gallery I'm not alone, lol) but hate the fake looking bark.

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Check out this link.

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WOO HOO!!

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Some more, yet different ones.

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This is starting to look like SPAM LOL. Another link,

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Last one I promise.... Pick your species, and these links should privde the trunk.

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Hi :) I've just uploaded some to my website that I took in Gran Canaria last year, if they are of any use. I had to resize them to 800x600, but I still have the originals (almost 400kb each) if anyone really needs them. There's also some of the lovely reddish cliff faces and some ground cover plants. Angela PS they're under the "textures" section *g*

If ya got originals and want them made seamless I could do it. If you got someware where you can upload them to zipped you can private message me where the zip is and i'll download it and fix em up to a more render friendly seamless kind for ya. If by chance the files even zipped are too big then we could do it in several zips. Just private message me and we'll figure something out. Even the ones on your site though would work but originals would be better. It would be cool to have real palm tree bark for Vue would it not?

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Heres a link for a great free palm tree model in vob format

also if you goto http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/plants.asp there's a palm model in 3ds format with a good texture in it

andy

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Thanks Pete, the more stuffage we have for Vue the better :) Zipping them didn't get the file sizes down, so I've just uploaded them to my site as is. I havn't made any thumbs for them, so all you will see at the URL is a directory and list, but you can open them and save from there. For some reason IE6 is resizing the images, but they load fine in Netscape 4.78 - no idea why! Once I dig them out I've got some photo's of trees from here in the UK too, they used to be on my old site but then Cyberwings went to the wall taking everything with it *grrrr* Thanks for the offer Angela

WOW angela, I LOVE that 135 image. I think it's a date palm. I'd love to see that when Pete rips them into shape. that would make some REALLY nice additions to alot of different scenes. I saw a bunch of those in Phoenix AZ over Christmas. Too cool

I can make anything perfectly seamless. I mean perfectly seamless. I do it by hand,( the best way). I get it exact. ALL that I require is that the orignal images be as the highest and largest sizes possible. It makes it easier to work with. Now having said that. I'll download them make them seamless and upload them to my site and Private message you there URL. You can grab them then and stick them on your site. Post a link then and everyone can have real palm bark fit for Vue.

Hehe, I'm not sure what it was, I was too busy tring not to shake with laughter (and spoil the photo's) as my nearly 15 year old son despratly trying to get me to hurry up before any of his friends could see how wierd I am, I think I lost count of how many times he disowned me that holiday LOL. We also had a young bananna tree (with some small green fruit on it) outside our apartment, I tried to get some photo's of the leaves, but no one would reach up (I'm only 5 foot) and hold them straight for me :( Still pretty cool after the wet and windy NE England :) Angela

Must have cross posted with you there Pete.. If you can find the time at some point I've love to hear your secret to making them seamless - I've tried myself but have never been happy with the results. As soon as they are done I'll replace the ones on the website with yours, and if I've the room upload them to my 'rosity space, just incase my ISP goes belly up - once bitten, as they say... Thanks again Angela

Right on. That's the size I need. The bigger the better really makes it just so much easier to work with even though it might not make much sence. Big pictures you can make perfectly seamless easy. Small ones are harder if you do it like I make them anyway. What I'll do is I'll also make them on the larger size but there going to be lots smaller than what I downloaded but big is best for Vue also when it comes to mapping textures. The little squares don't show up. I don't know how long it will take me. A couple of hours probibly. There is one or two that might not work but I'll try to take a piece of the picture that will work and make a seamless texture out of that instead. I'll let you know what I got them uploaded.

Man that took awile. Two of them well you'd spend days making them seamless and it would be sort of pointless cause the way the camera was sitting when they where taken. The leaf of the palm would have been great had it been taken so that the leaf was flat 90 degrees to the camera then I could have made it into a leaf texture for the trees. It's not so it's sorta pointless making it seamless. The other one I think is one of the hill pictures. Same thing cause it's not 90 degrees to the camera you will spend days making it seamless which is ok of cource but the problem with it is the plants in it. Because of those the resulting texture will be pointless in Vue probibly. Anyway I did the rest and some were not to easy to make seamless I might add. Some where downright tricky but I got them anyway. I never really shrunk them and there saved as jpg at setting 10 out of 12 for compression. I don't like jpgs and making seamless textures you will find out why real fast. Bmps are easier to work with. There kinda largish files but that's the way I like my textures. Better too big than too small. The whole works is just over 8 megs and I'll private message you where you can grab them at. Anyone gets these files. I never made a bump channel for Vue for the barks but it's easy to do just import the same picture into the bump channel part in the Vue program and it will work just fine. Gray scale works better but RGB works not to bad. You may have to invert the picture in the bump channel spot to get the bumps going the right way.

Gee, and here I was thinking we might get lucky and get one bark photo! Thanks to you all for being interested in this idea. I had found some real small photos of palm tree bark, but they were too small for any use. I can host a couple of them for you, Alla, if you need. Thanks, Pete, for volunteering to do the work on making them seamless. I'm slowly trying to learn how to do that myself. Slowly is the operative word here. And you're absolutely right; the more good stuff like textures we have for Vue, the better for all of us!!

Well I did a test render. Just quick and dirty. It was a little tricky to get it to generate bumps. I reset the bumps and reloaded the texture on that channel then it seemed to work. First time it never did don't know why. Of cource I'm just using the regular coconut tree so who knows. I'd like to see somebody make that one tree. I don't know it's called. But the cool fattish at the bottom one. That would be a cool one for somebody to try to recreate. That's the texture I did a test on. you got to set all the channels you use to cylindrical object standard mapping of course to get it to render properly on the trunks. Oh and set it all to bycubic. It works. It could be some really interesting barks. I can't wait to see what people make out of them.

Ha ha. $6.00 bucks... What a laugh ! I just clicked on that link. These textures will blow those away and there free ! That texture is not even seamless. If it's not seamless it's pointless in a rendering program. Unless you map it to the object but even then not seamless it will have a seam somewhere.

Wow, these are excellent Pete, thankyou! I'll upload them to the site today and add a post here when they are ready. I'm still trying to figure out my free copy of xfrog, but doubt that I'll ever be up to making anything as complicated as that *g* I've mad a small spindly tree and used the C4D pluging to port it to vue, but have found that most of the meshes are *way* too dense for my pc to cope with in Vue. If there is any interest I'll up the tree too. Thanks Angela

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Now up under seamless textures section (link at top of page) Please forgive the quick and dirty page design, I just wanted to get these up so everyone can download them :) Thanks again to Pete, and to Djeser - I may take you up on that offer later if my ISP gets funny about bandwidth *s* Angela

Angela, the pages come up, but without the image; only the little red X box.

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Ya here page is broken. Well you can cheat and get them here for now till she fixes it. Oh I see what she did she still got them listed at her home location she forgot to change the links to the web location.

Ah ha! Thanks, Pete. Getting 'em now. Can't wait to try them out!

Really strange - I posted that I'd fixed the link before sitting down to watch "Taken", must be a day for my cockups! Thanks for all the help Pete, hope everyone can get them now, Angela

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Ya the links work now. All fixed up. Did you try them seamless? They look cool but cause there are so big it's hard to find a program that can display them. I used Harms tile to check them. A free program on the web. I think it's called STile now. It suppose to make seamless textures but hey can't do that with this type of picture. The other way of seeing them properly tiled is shrink the pictures to a more reasonable screen size. For future referance if you ever are in a position to take such pictures again. Try to keep the camera 90 degrees to the object you are taking. Sometimes it's impossible and I undersand that. The other is compressing the images. Avoid it at all costs till there made seemless. Now I understand that some cameras take jpg images so you can't win there and the other is if there prints when they print them at the lab to cd tell them to save them as bmp and not jpg. There insane at the photo labs. They set the jpg compression down to like 3. and then they use 1 / 100th of the cd space. There clueless I tell ya.

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This seemless texture is for a very short time, so grab it now.

Charles