Rope a dope question

[Eric2575]

What is the best way to approach the decaling of a coiled rope? Up to this point I have only needed to decal rope a couple of time and then only one length at a time. Now that I am modeling the Spanish Galleon: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=32733&hl= , I have a ton of rope to decal. I used to take the rope model, create a pose, and then straighten the rope in the pose to apply the cylindrical rope decal. This works great for one or two pieces of rope, but now I have so many pieces and coiled rope to boot. I wonder if you could decal a staright piece of rope first and then coil it? Maybe in an action or something?

[Luuk Steitner]

Maybe applying a tileable (cylindrical) decal with the rope veins already in the correct direction would do the trick. That would be my first attempt.

[cuboos]

http://www.cgtextures.com/

[Gerry]

Wow, that's a nice textures site! Apparently the Mayang's free textures site has been shut down and I started jonesin' for textures as soon as I found out!