I'm making a gold lamdress tex map to put on the Freestuff.Can anyone direct me to a site where I can find something to use for it? I need some kind of metal texture maybe. Have tried a few things in Photoshop, but not really happy. Thanks maclean

Take a look at the "Vest Textures" by Dal in FS. The Autumn one looks like lam

Someone needs to use a digital camera to photograph fabrics like that. I'm thinking of getting a digital camera but it will be a while.

Thanks Nance, I finally found the vest tex (after going through a lot of pages). It's amazing what you find! I thought I'd pretty much checked out everything, but there were a couple of other things I'd missed. Will open it up and try it, but it looks good. Dreamspinner, I'd LOVE a digicam but can't afford it. I'm a photographer, so I should be able to do all this stuff. Problem is getting the material itself to shoot. I was thinking on a kind of gold leaf or foil (Also I live in the Italian Alps at 6,000ft so it ain't easy!) There must be a site somewhere that has miscellaneous textures and fabrics. Will try posting the ques. on Computer Arts Forum too. Any info, I'll post it maclean

It seems to me that maybe a reflection map might work with the right sort of small twilled texture. Somewhere in the back of my mind is a gold lame that someone did. Now-- there is a painted sort of satiny dress texture that someone did (Tygerland strikes me right off) that might give you ideas for it--it was quite successful--I'll have to look for the dress texture--might be in Freestuff and it was for the halter top dress I believe. I have a digital camera but no lame to photograph--LOL--otherwise I would do it gladly. I bet Rena could give you a good idea for this--or might even have such a fabric in her repetoire. Diane

Glad that it might work for you. You should have been able to go right to it though by using the Search function in FS on either "Vest Textures" or "Dal". (just thought I'd mention it in case you've never tried it)

There are quite a few 'texture' sites, but they are low on textiles. Since I am a 'textile' person, I probably should take the time to photograph or find a lot of textile textures and organize them.

maclean, I was going to post what I came up with, but I took the winter reflection map of Dal's, changed it to gold as a 1000 x 1000 map, used the winter bump map and it was fairly realistic, altho' the bump texture is too large for lame'. I was involved in creating a smaller bump when I also got involved with Polyette LOL--but will try again tomorrow. I think that reflection map with a small twill-y type bump should come pretty close if you don't find anything else. Diane B

see above for my version of lame--working off Moyra's suggestion

Thanks everyone for the help. I'm getting there. Yes, Nance, I could have used search, but it's amazing the things you find rooting through the Freestuff. moyra, I did some things in Photoshop woth noise and other filters, like chrome, but I want a highly-reflective dress, and a refl. map isn't working. Won't allow me to map a low-cut dress. Will keep trying. diane, I'm a photographer, but no longer have access to any fabrics. Was in fashion in Milan, but moved on to music and have lost my contacts. If you could do textiles I'm sure a lot of people would use them. Anyway, thanks again to all. maclean