Thanks mirek,

Many things to have a think about there, some of which should be easy, others could cause a few problems but I'll muddle through!!

I've used one of the ground images from the site that NeoStrider suggested to make the new ground shader. I tiled the 512x512 image into a 1024x1024, removed as much repetition as possible with photoshop's healing brush then tiled again at 2048x2048 and did the same.

In Maya I applied the image to a lambert shader and repeated it 20x20 and put an offset of 30% U and 60% V to make it less repetetive again. I also made a bump map from a desaturated version of the ground image.

Once the other objects are in the scene what little repetition there is in the pattern is not visible.

Thanks again NeoStrider for pointing me in the direction of that site.

Mat.

Edit: I forgot to mention that 'A History of Violence' is very different to the comic, a bit of a let down in that respect but quite good none the less.