How do I texture a tire without such visible seems?

Famouz

Making a UDK scene I'm making some enviorment models like tires.
And after unwraping I'm always having big problems with texturing. You always see where I used another photoreference or where a seam is.

So this is my current texture:


And how it looks in Max:


Also good texturing Tutorials would be nice.

Mark Dygert

I would do something like this:


This gives you a nice straight unwrap to texture on, with only two steams hopefully in an easy to disguise place. Personally I would model out the inside of the tire but that's just me.