Good to hear from you again, Bruno.....

I've posted the files on my iDisk

Here's a picture of my attempts so far.......

 Hmmmm, having trouble uploading the .vob file..........

 A very large thank you to bruno21 for creating two excellent seamless thatch images on my behalf.

Most appreciated 

 Thank you, GK, That is most kind: I feel spoilt for choice!

 Thank you, or rather, merci, Bruno...................I'll get an email off to you this evening.

PixPlant looks ideal for my purposes (since it will also create the various maps for a full texture), but then I found out that it is Windows only & I'm on a Mac.............ho, hum......

Besides, both these software options are a rather expensive solution to creating one, possibly two,  seamless texture(s)!...........Might I be able to persuade one of you gentlemen to kindly work the necessary magic on two thatch photos in order to make them seamless, please?

Kind regards,

Patrice

 Good to hear: Thank you both for your feedback.

All the best

 Most, if not all, of your questions will be addressed in the various excellent tutorials available free from GeekatPlay.

Good luck

 .......and the South did not lose the civil war........................

 Oh well, since this seems to be a thread that refuses to be quiet, I'll just add a little light reading:

$1000 laptop comparison

and

$2000 laptop comparison

 No, no, no.....................it has to be Porsche!

 Thanks for the clarification, Jeff. Much appreciated.

P

 Or,............wait until Snow Leopard is released,.......and then make a purchase decision.

 An interesting line of recommendations......

For my part, I have no wish to fan the flames of a Mac vs PC debate............

But what has been, & is, important for me is that the hardware I purchase works as effortlessly as possible: I do not have the knowledge, skills, or inclination to build a machine from component parts with the headache of compatibility, inter-operability, drivers, etc., not to mention issues of warranty et al. Thus, currently, Macs offer the best solution for me - with the added reassurance that the OS & hardware are engineered to work together optimally. PCs of a similar specification to their corresponding Macs are no longer ( to my understanding) significantly, if at all, cheaper (excluding self-build for the reasons cited above).

As we know & lament, e-on do not yet provide a 64bit version of Vue for the Mac: Thus, if you wish to benefit from significant amounts of RAM the options would appear to be...

1. Choose a PC running a 64bit Microsoft OS
2. Choose a Mac & run Vue on an MS OS via Bootcamp (with the hassle of saving to an external drive for file exchange between OSs)
   3) Choose a Mac & run Vue on an MS OS via Fusion or Parallels allowing both OSs to run side by side with seamless transfer of files (my undertanding from the promotional literature).
3. Choose a Mac & see if the soon to be released 'Snow Leopard' version of Mac OSX provides the promised framework for easy programming in multi-threaded 64bit (& e-on take advantage of it) !

Spoilt for choice really!   ☺