this got a mention in a lecture i gave it a try and found it a great tool so I thought id share. Its a wicked program for making brick textures, its not just perfect walls either.http://www.brick.com/md/md2.swf
Shame there isn't one for planks.
There is, here: http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm
I posted this on another thread. It'll do wood textures and allow you to do planks, parquet(sp?) and other patterns.
Have you tried the whole program that does more than just Wood?
I haven't, just wondering if it's worth buying or not.
For $399? No, I don't think it's worth it. However, you can DL a demo. The demo is time limited and puts a watermark on rendered images.
There is a free renderer, though. The demo can save files and the free renderer will load them and render an image without the watermark.
I think it's a really good program and would consider buying it, if it cost a whole lot less.