I'm trying to create a texture for my tree, (plant object) I only have the attached reference pic. Anybody know what the best method is to create a texture (preferably procedural)?
Would Inagoni's Veloute or Digital Carvers Guild Enhance:C help?

Thanks!

Personally, I prefer texture maps over procedural maps - especially for trees - because they render significantly faster if you have more than just a few. 

Abdolutely Right!!!  **;^)
**That does look nice on the tree.

Wow, thank you so very much for the texture!
Didn't expect the reference pic was good enough to create a texture from it, but it turned out really nice!

That texture looks great now! Nice work on the tree Mark.

http://www.cgtextures.com/

Brian

Yeah, I love that site Brian. I've used a ton of their textures. Lemog's free textures is a great source for lower rez (512x512) tiling textures  http://www.lemog.fr/lemog_textures/index.php.

I do procedural shading and then bake it to a BMP to speed up rendering after the BMP has been run through CrazyBump first for other uses in Carrara.

Shawn:

Is there a rendering speed advantage to a bmp over a jpg?

Klebnor

Same rendering speed.  But BMP uses far more RAM than JPG does.

I mentioned BMP because BMP is good for using as your source image that you later create your bump, displacement, highlight, diffuse, etc. image maps from which you then save in JPG format and use instead of BMP in Carrara so that you don't kill your RAM.

I use 15% compression for my JPG saving.  It doesn't lose too much detail and keeps the files small enough.

If you do use BMP and your hard drive is grinding away during a render, you don't have enough RAM and your Carrara rendering speed takes a hit.  Then you have to use JPG or GIF.

The large size differential is the main reason I tend to default to jpg.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Klebnor