Here is an image of the latest version of groingrinder's chinese junk. I have just about got my textures where I want them. Still not absolutely happy with the sails material but it is getting close to what I want.) Comments/suggestions?

Well I'm glad to see the flag is flying the right way....... The Bryster

Beautiful!

Fantastic!

Where did you find the textures?
The only thing I can see, and I don't whether you can do something about it, is the texture on the protrusions beneath the prow and bow (sorry, don't know the name). The texture should also be trapezoidal, no?
For sails, have you tried putting a bump map? Something like the canvas texture in Photoshop?
Otherwise, excellent modelling and texturing.

Errr, of course I meant "bow and stern".

I made some wood decking anh hull plank textures from my dining room and kitchen floors via digital camera image. (and some photopaint tweaking). These have been applied on a mesh by mesh basis here due to orientation/scaling considerations. The sails are a solid colur with an applied bump map. Problem is I have to get each sail through UVMapper and paint the bump map more properly. Each sail panel has to have a slightly different orientation and as modeled they are all one entity. Tweak time! The fore and aft decking will also have to be UVMappered and pint textured. I have sent Groingrinder a copy of my current textures to put in with the model (untextured). I still want to tweak them to get the size down a bit though.

Apologies for the spelling issues!!

I know what's missing! Various scratches, discolorations and stuff that occurs as the result of the real life. The way it's now, it looks like a model, not a real junk.

Great job Incarnadine! I have been trying to texture this myself with photos downloaded from texture sights on the web and having fits with it. It's been several days of tweek, render, tweek, render, tweek, render, save, tweek, render, tweek, tweek, render, save. Nice to see you are another Photopaint user. Do you use the bucket fill tool to paint photo bitmaps onto uvmapper templates. It works great. I should have the exploded sail meshes to you shortly.

You bet it is! One thing I do know how to do is fly my freak flag properly.

Attached Link: Runtimedna

Hey Incarnadine objects in photopaint are what photoshop owners call layers. If you use these and the bitmap fill tool you can go out with your digital camera and take pics of algae, rust, scale, mold, barnacles and stuff like that and layer these in with your textures for a more lived in/on, scuffed up, broken in/down look to the junk. You could also use the clone tool to paint from a pic unto a separate object on the tex. You can also paint your own bump maps to apply dings and scratches instead of using the default method of bump maps in Bryce. If you don't know where the object button is look at my replies to the photopaint users thread over in the texturing forum. I love the showroom fresh look, but it does not appeal to alot of folks. If you need more info on using uv mapper go to the total uv forum at www.runtimedna.com. I will post as a link with this.

Just a comment for those that want it dirtied up....let's leave it beautiful...we can dirty it up ourselves and each may have their own way of doing it. You think?

Here is as far as I have gotten texturing the junk using the texture editor in Bryce and downloaded photos. After seeing how good yours looks I have decided to run mine through uv mapper pro and use a combo of uv mapped textures and Bryce applied photo textures.

I will be supplying a full set of uv map templates with the model when we finally release it for those who do not have or don't want to fool with uv mapper.

Because you said you didn't know how to do this in your email I made a mini tut. I am posting it here because others may also be in need of this info.

Thanks for the pointers on family grouping! Yup - I understand objects (and transparency based clip masks!! - grin - (all my published image manip works are on renderotica)). No, I have not used the bucket fill to paint textures on yet. My image was literally textured with basic image textures added in either object cubic or parametric with rotation and scaling tweaks as needed. I have put a few things through UVMapper in the past to make templates (got the sails by the way - new, more correct texture soon!)