This looks really nice! I would like to make a suggestion though. Its really simple, the wood texture need some bump in it so for that you need a normal map. Normal maps create the illusion that the model has bump and its not just a perfectly flat surface. It also need a displacement map, this will physically manipulate the mesh to create a realistic surface. The last thing you need is a specularity map. This will tell the computer which parts of the texture receive light, which creates good realism. And when combined, it makes for some brilliant results. All of the normal maps, displacement maps, and specularity maps can be made on this website: http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ I have an image of the node setup(http://imgur.com/tl35gb7), hope this isn't too confusing and hope this helps!

Ok thanks for the input , i knew about these but was using procedural textures , but yeah forgot to include the bumps , i will change and update this. I saw your node setup, and I plan on using just procedural textures and noise or voronoi or combination of both in place of the images. And i am guessing I have to do something with light paths, or maybe a layer weight facing as the fac in place of the specularity map image ??

Ok I will look at those links .. But yeah you are right procedural or not if this is not real enough then I might need to use an image maybe an hdr map ...

oh no issues . I will look at it now.

Nice job!

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Thanks for this one!