<\/a><\/p>\n We start off in Cheetah3D<\/a> to make a cylinder with 90 polygons around, and about 20 along, but only one division for the end caps. Why? Because I will set texture to then and it is much easier to do that like this. I made the mistake before and that took too much time.<\/p>\n Now, I found this very good FilterForge<\/a> filter for making tree bark, much better than the one I made before. Here is one render.<\/p>\n And here is another, both look really great.<\/p>\n Now, I need end caps, wood slices. I’ve tried before to make those in FilterForge but failed, and that time I reverted to use cuts from images at CGTextures<\/a>. I thought of doing that and downloaded two wood end pictures.<\/p>\n As you can see, they do look different, but still similar. But, I decided to give it a go now with FilterForge 2, and here is the result. This filter is not done yet, will revisit it a few times before I and satisfied. This is the first try I did.<\/p>\n And here is another approach with a more random looking ring pattern and a darker core. I guess I keep both methods, and have a switch between them. As Murphy use to say: indecision is the basis for flexibility.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Now, applying those ends to logs, and the bark to the side, what will I get?<\/p>\n A log, hat look pretty good. I added a few more, with different bark and wood slice.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wend1-05.jpg\" "\\"wend1-05\\"")
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