Experimenting with textures and materials

Greetings all, I order the pro version, and had time to tryout the free versions. I realize there are certainly some restrictions on it, but I did my best effort to use the available tools to try and produce as real of a rendering as I could get, with out the shadows and reflection, although the Specular map and Environment Map count for something. this is what I ended up with using some gemstone, petrified wood, colorful bark and ground cover. The textures did not tile in this version so the ground cover came out a little large

Anyways, here it is…