...to take is to make a quite realistic pavement. I did what I could, I asked people on the Polish blender forum but I can`t improve it any more. Here`s my pavement, it`s still far from what I would like to achieve. Seems something`s wrong with specularity but I can`t improve it any more by trial-and-error method (it`s 0.88 version:P). Looking forward your suggestions.

I don't think it's the specularity, I think your image texture just isn't detailed enough for what you want, and the bricks don't have enough texture to them. If you create (really large) custom nor and spec maps in photoshop it might help add detail.

I'd also desaturate colors in scene, about 10%

I was wondering what size your map is? If you notice on the left side you can see the seam and the bricks do not match up...Is the map laid on a floor or what..The reason I ask is, a lot of times I take a picture into Bryce and make a terrian out of it and then reapply the image to give it a good height..

ellocolobo: Could you show where you see that seam? Sorry, its not a floor, each stone is a separate object with a map several times bigger than on the render. Then I added a floor with a crude bumpmap to simulate the filling between the stones. vespertilum: Thanks, Im thinking about new ones with less saturated colors, too. Do you mean the rest of materials should be given less saturated textures, too?

Well,i`m not familiar with the render and material-settings of blender, but in c4d i would create a luminance-channel,loaded with the main texture-map.A diffusion-map should be necessary as well.The rest is balancing. A lower specularity should be fine,also. Cheers rollmops:)

I think the greens in wall need a few desaturation. The saturation you have used with darker luminance seems to be good for wet surfaces.

Thanks, rollmops:) Do you mean you load your color maps not into color channel but into the luminance channel? Interesting, I should be able to try it in Blender. Thanks, vespertilum. I will try lower-saturation-jpegs today... if I get to my home today, of course. We have 11 "bombs" today in Warsaw... Nasty stupid b... (not meaning blenders:P)

I load my textures in the color- and the luminance-channel.Into the diffusion-channel in most cases,too.

And do you use radiosity in these renders?

Here`s the new ver with lower saturation. Some tex are missing, just overlooked;)

I do not use radiosity (global illumination)in most cases.

Walls look good :) perhaps an intermediate saturation in floor.

maybe add a little dirt and grass color inbetween the stones it looks too clean.