adding a knot to wood grain

[redwood]

I have a sign that I'm using a non tilable wood grain texture to. I would like to add some knots, any ideas of how to do that?

[highpockets]

How are you applying the wood grain texture?

[redwood]

It's a non tilable texture that comes with Aspire. It uses a 3D finishing tool path. The sign is a replica of a Tavern sign in Portugal.
If need be, I'll just try and find a board with knots already, but it would be interesting if anyone had a idea how to do it.
Here is the original sign.

[Mike-S]

Try playing with the Sculpting tool. Smooth an area and then Deposit new grain lines around your knot.

[highpockets]

Mike sort of beat me to it As alternative to sculpting, you might Google wood knot images, pick one you like, import the image as a component and merge it with your existing texture.

[Mike-S]

Highpockets, we're thinking alike. I gave the merge a try first, but kept getting the original grain intermingling with the new knot--just didn't look right. Also tried "Distorting" the original grain, but that was a disaster.

[redwood]

Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't given sculpting a thought. I'm pretty amateur in using a lot of the modeling tools, but I'll give it a shot.

[highpockets]

Mike,

Just noodling around a bit, the know on the left is the original, I did a rough cut out then rotated it 90° (just for contrast on the test), removed some of the edge to taper it a bit (sure wish there was a fade you could apply all the way around a component). Flattened it out quite a bit, merged it with the original and played with the base height a bit.
This is the kind of thing you could spend hours noodling around with

[Mike-S]

sure wish there was a fade you could apply all the way around a component

Possibly the "Multiply" function. Look at Vectric's tutorial on that.

[highpockets]

Mike, I've yet to figure out the Multiply option.