Random Plywood Sheets

[James Russell]

Hi all,

I'm currently rendering the exterior of a set covered in various plywood sheets. I'm wondering without making a series of different textures if there's a way I can make my plywood wood texture regenerate randomly for each sheet.

It just looks tessellated and bland at the moment.

Cheers,

James

[Benson Shaw]

If your texture image is big enough, you could use different areas of it for each plysheet in your drawing by adjusting the h & v offsets, scale and rotation/flip in the OIP Render tab. If the initial image is not big enough for that, you could probably get away with scaling at least a little in the OIP.

Almost as easy is to photograph several pieces of ply and make a library of textures.

-B

[rDesign]

I found this large plywood texture image somewhere on Flikr (I'll edit my post later to give credit if I can find where I found it again). It's made of a bunch of tiled random plywood sheets, might be what you're looking for.

Warning - the file is about 5mb.

HTH,

Tim

[CipesDesign]

Hi Tim, Very nice textures, but the sheets are tiled like a parquet... Would you ever actually use it like that for floor (or other) sheathing?

[rDesign]

Peter- I never would specify installing the plywood like that: it looks more decorative than structural. That was just the way I found that texture on Flickr, and I haven't had a chance to modify it per generic US construction methods.

BTW I found the original link for that texture, there are some other very nice ones that have been uploaded with a CC license, no attribution necessary free wood texture, generic plywood | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.

Tim

[Dave Donley]

Very nice free textures, thanks for the link Tim!

Edited May 12, 2011 by Dave Donley

[CipesDesign]

Thanks Tim!

[James Russell]

Wow, nice stuff tim. Might pull out my virtual scissors and slice a few.

J

[Taproot]

I was in need of a plywood random sheet texture, so I turned Tim's texture into something a little more useful.

If you need a seamless texture of plywood 4x8 sheets, you can download it here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zszuzkztlust69i/Texture_Plywood%20Sheets.jpg?dl=0

[AlanW]

Hi, Try Marionette, I would guess you could have each panel texture generate different images and rotations. I'd help if I had any idea how it worked, unfortunately I am not a programmer.

[AlanW]

You could make your own in Photoshop like the attached.