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The Color Map
The result in Figure 1 looks like a 3d computer object, and not really like a wooden board. It's just a plane with a brown color. A color map will help fix this. I used
a pine image from IceMan's zip of 50 wooden veneers, and renamed it to pineCol.jpg.
Assign pineCol.jpg as a new texture to the wood material, with the default settings. If you look carefully at the rendered picture, you'll notice a perfectly smooth pine plank. Would work well to
build a table or cabinet or what not. But keep the story of the board in mind -- this is an old sucker, and still need crevaces and grooves and cuts and slices. This can be accomplished with the
Bump, or Nor map.
Figure 3: Applied Col Map
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