Yes you can use the same image over and over again for the bark, bump and Highlight. make sure that the scale of every image is the same. you may find that Vue changes it on bump and highlight. Here I just loaded up one of my barks. These are the settings: Color mode Mapped picture Picture scale 1 this is a 512 X 512 picture cylindrical mapping. Bumps gain -1 x .2 y .2 z.2 You may want more bump than I got on this one. I don't have highlight turned on on this one. It's a picture of dead wood and it realy looks proper with these settings. What I do when I'm trying to figure out what's doing what is I make up a bunch of objects like a simple cylinder say then render them with all slightly different setting so I know if I'm adjusting things in the right direction or not.