
After a whole day, a headache and a great depression i finally remembered that this is the place to find help

Here now my Problems:
1st Problem: I modelt a rifle and i want the back part of it out of wood. The mental ray shader for the wood part is suppose to look like this:

and a picture of my model :

2nd Problem:
Another wood problem

I would like to have a parquet floor looking like this in my scene:

dont really know whats the problem with wood textures and me

i just cant get it to look good....
It would be so nice if somebody could help me out before i run nuts ...
PS: SORRY for bad spelling and/or grammatic issues