Hey guys
thought it would be useful for a lot of people if we posted nice wood floor textures that we have! (the free ones of course )
I can never find any nice ones, and I end up using the same ones over and over again
Here's a free one that everyone probably has because it's from this forum, but hey ho its a start to the thread

u jelly?

I'm in work today, and tomorrow, and the day after. Stupid home show

Fun fact: when people smoked on planes the air was fresher, as they would have to air-condition the cabin more thoroughly

One thing I think would help many people would be default scenes to put a house of a certain type in, and you could use depth of field or something to make the surroundings not matter too much... think like a street of detached houses for that house type, etc. You could just put your house in a similar match and use depth of field. Would make still shots quicker to make much better.
Obviously the wrong place to say this but hey ho!

If you have a good gfx card give the free version a whirl. That's what I've done with a 3gb 580 card.
The renderings are okay, but it looks GPU rendered, sort of game engine-like. Still, not everyone is after photorealism and if your scene is good then it'll no doubt come out as a nice render.
In the free version a nice resolution image comes out in a few seconds which is great, so animations will obviously take a lot longer per-frame than in something like vray! but of course youre sacrificing quality.

From what I've seen though, if you put effort into the overall scene it adds a hell of a lot to the overall quality. I've tried it with single buildings and having an infinite plane of grass around it sort of ruins the end result!

That's great

For your efforts I can offer 5 Zimbabwean Dollars.

Just thought I'd conclude this thread in a decent way
As you can see I ended up using Rich O'Brien's version of the wallpaper,
it was only to show wardrobe size really so it doesn't matter too much that the pattern's different
And yes I know the image sucks, it's a ~1 minute podium render and is not paid work so I wasn't too bothered

Hmm lot's of room to get creative with

Ah I guess there just isn't enough of this pattern to do this then
Rich O'Brien - thanks for that I've saved it for future use

For this though I'll just have to find another pattern I guess that's as similar as possible - I just wanted to try this as it's the wallpaper that will be used in real life

I also have this now, same sample different colour, slightly more of the pattern there...I don't know if this is helpful or not to someone in the know

Hey
I need to make a seamless texture from this wallpaper sample
There isn't enough of the wallpaper there to make it true to life, but is there a way to make it still look seamless? I've been trying and failing
thanks
Mike

Ah that's useful, especially since it has an attachment option. Saved! Thanks

Hi Gaieus,
Doh, I think my noobish-ness caused some confusion. It looked fine but it wasn't a working form (as in if it was online, it wouldn't work).
I had to scrap it and found another suitable form online which was much easier to put in and get working.
Thanks
Mike

Because I happened to find a very lightweight single page template that was basically perfect for what I need, this is the only bit I'm not sure about

Hi guys,
need to edit a free web page template I found online but I'm awful at this sort of thing

The bit I need to get working is the contact form.
It looks like this:

<h2>Contact Form</h2>
					<form id="ContactForm" method="post">
							<div>
								<div class="wrapper"><input class="input" type="text" value="Name;"  onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Name;'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Name;' ) this.value=''" ></div>
								<div class="wrapper"><input class="input" type="text" value="Email;"  onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Email;'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Email;' ) this.value=''" ></div>
								<div class="wrapper"><input class="input" type="text" value="Fax;"  onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Fax;'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Fax;' ) this.value=''"></div>
								<div class="textarea_box"><textarea cols="1" rows="1" onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Message;'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Message;' ) this.value=''"  >Message;</textarea></div>
								<a href="javascript&#058;" class="button" onClick="document.getElementById('ContactForm').reset()">clear</a>
								<a href="javascript&#058;" class="button" onClick="document.getElementById('ContactForm').submit()">send</a>
							</div>
					</form>

There is a javascript folder full of js files too, I assume one of those is the key.

Any help would be extremely appreciated

Thanks
Mike

Only now got these replies after the weekend
Thanks! It's a lot clearer to me now and I've saved this thread for reference

Well as a 17 year old who isn't great at SU, I can't say my time is worth much at all
Yeah I did find that they didn't line up perfectly. I had a small indentation running along the whole thing which didn't line up at the corners. I've simplified the whole thing now. I also just noticed how cheap the 1001 bit tools are..this may be a good idea for me to get

Ah thanks for that Dave
sounds like I'll have to "go manual"
I think there's a tool in the 1001 bit tools plugin that would do the trick, but there's also a lot that I don't need, and it's a big and non free plugin haha